A study on representation of QoS in UDDI for web services composition

Abstract

With the increasing popularity of deploying web services, quality of service (QoS) becomes a significant concern for service consumers and providers for service selection. However representing and storing the values of QoS attributes are problematic, as the current Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) was not designed to accommodate these emerging requirements. To solve the problems of storing QoS in UDDI and aggregating QoS values, three different approaches, namely type, keyword based and ontological approaches to model QoS tModel (Technical Model) have been proposed. The aim is to study these approaches and other existing QoS tModel representation for their efficiency and consistency in service selection. In this paper we also report a number of experimental results based on an example in order to evaluate these approaches.