On the specification and negotiation of quality of service for collaborative services

Bart Orriens*, Jian Yang

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The adoption of web service technologies in dynamic business applications such as on-demanding computing or highly reconfigurable virtual enterprizes advocates for methods and tools for describing and managing nonfunctional aspects of services, e.g., the reliability, accessibility and accuracy of a service. These properties are referred as Quality of Service (QoS). Failing to accurately specify and communicate quality details can lead to wrong and inconsistent expectations held by the service provider and service consumer and result in serious disagreement. Popular web service description development and management solutions, e.g. WS-Policy and Web Service Level Agreement, do not properly cater for the specification and negotiation of quality related requirements for collaborative services. In this paper we present a comprehensive mechanism for the specification of quality requirements. The proposed approach allows service providers and consumers to explicitly define and adjust both higher level and concrete measurement requirements for quality of a service in a formally verifiable manner. As a result, quality negotiations can be performed effectively for the establishment of service provision agreements.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 12th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference, EDOC 2008
Place of PublicationLos Alamitos, CA
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Pages316-322
Number of pages7
ISBN (Print)9780769533735
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2008
Event12th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference, EDOC 2008 - Munich, Germany
Duration: 15 Sept 200819 Sept 2008

Other

Other12th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference, EDOC 2008
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityMunich
Period15/09/0819/09/08

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