Title: Estimating web services reliability: a semantic approach

Authors: Shi-Ming Huang, Kenvi Wang, Shing-Han Li, Meng-Cheng Chen

Addresses: Department of Accounting and Information Technology, Center for e-Manufacturing and e-Commerce, National Chung Cheng University, 168, University Road, Min-Hsiung Chia-Yi, Taiwan 621, ROC. ' Government Network Service Department, Data Communication Branch, Chunhhwa Telecom Company Limited, 21, Section 1, Hsin-Yi Road, Taipei, Taiwan 100, ROC. ' Department of Information Management, National Chung Cheng University, 168, University Road, Min-Hsiung Chia-Yi, Taiwan 621, ROC. ' Department of Information Management, National Chung Cheng University, 168, University Road, Min-Hsiung Chia-Yi, Taiwan 621, ROC

Abstract: Web service technology is becoming increasingly popular because of its potential in many areas. But web services technology is still in its infancy, and there are some aspects that must be improved. One of the domain factors contributing to the success of web service implementation is reliability. But the traditional way of web service reliability analysis cannot demonstrate where reliability problems are. Apart from the traditional way of analysing the reliability of web services, a novel idea using a semantic approach is proposed in this article to estimate reliability. The approach proposed in this article clarifies unreliable situations in the process of web service implementation. Furthermore, a case study and system implementation is demonstrated to verify the technique we propose.

Keywords: web services; conceptual reliability; semantic approach; web service implementation; information systems; Taiwan.

DOI: 10.1504/IJISCM.2006.008290

International Journal of Information Systems and Change Management, 2006 Vol.1 No.1, pp.82 - 98

Published online: 29 Nov 2005 *

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