A taxonomy and classification of web service QoS elements. (11th February 2011)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Godse, Manish; Bellur, Umesh; Sonar, Rajendra
• Is Part Of: International journal of communication networks and distributed systems. Volume 6:Number 2(2011)
• Page Start: 118
• Page End: 141
• Publication Date: 2011-02-11
• Subjects: quality of service -- QoS -- web services -- ontology -- taxonomy -- service oriented computing -- service selection -- multicriteria decision making -- MCDM; Computer networks -- Periodicals; Telecommunication systems -- Periodicals; Electronic data processing -- Distributed processing -- Periodicals; 004.6
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1754-3916

Abstract

A key problem in service oriented computing is that of service selection. Selecting the appropriate service depends upon an understanding of two major classes of requirements: functional and quality of service (QoS). There may be multiple service providers satisfying the functional requirements with varying QoS. Thus, QoS becomes a service-differentiating criterion of selection. Choosing the service with the best match of QoS requirements is a multi-criteria decision-making problem that needs a thorough understanding of QoS. There are multiple stakeholders involved in the process of service recommendation who may have varying concerns on the QoS attributes. What is needed is a comprehensive taxonomy of QoS parameters and their relationships that can form QoS ontology of web services. In this paper, we present such ontology.