Title: Hierarchical registration and management method of complex electronic services

Authors: Xie Shan, Chen Jiaxun

Addresses: Information Science and Technology College, DongHua University, P.O. Box 339, Donghua University, 1882 West Yan'an Road, Shanghai 200051, China. ' Network and Database Research Institute, Information Science and Technology College, DongHua University, 1882 West Yan'an Road, Shanghai, China

Abstract: This paper describes a new method of registration and management of complex services in the electronic service system. The method aims to rapid and easy development and management of complex and robust applications over the internet. This paper starts by presenting the architecture of electronic service computing model and then describing the method of hierarchical registration of services. In particular, the paper concentrates on the hierarchy of service information space describing and storing electronic services, and addresses how to find and execute these services which are registered in the electronic service system. We can find the using of XML based hierarchical registration allows service requesters and providers to interact more flexibly and openly. It is confirmed that the method is very suitable for the complex distributed computing over internet.

Keywords: distributed computing; electronic services; XML; internet; service registration; service management; e-commerce; electronic commerce; web services.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCAT.2005.007477

International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology, 2005 Vol.24 No.3, pp.128 - 134

Published online: 25 Jul 2005 *

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