Managing and Querying Web Services Communities: A Survey
Title:
Managing and Querying Web Services Communities: A Survey
Author:
Hela Limam Jalel Akaichi
Appeared in:
International journal of database management systems
Paging:
Volume 3 (2011) nr. 1 pages 93-108
Year:
2011
Contents:
With the advance of Web Services technologies and the emergence of Web Services into the informationspace, tremendous opportunities for empowering users and organizations appear in various applicationdomains including electronic commerce, travel, intelligence information gathering and analysis, healthcare, digital government, etc.However, the technology to organize, search, integrate these Web Services has not kept pace with therapid growth of the available information space. The number of Web Services to be integrated may belarge and continuously changing.To ease and improve the process of Web services discovery in an open environment like the Internet, it issuggested to gather similar Web services into groups known as communities.Although Web services are intensively investigated, the community management issues have not beenaddressed yetIn this paper we draw an overview of several Web services Communities’ management approachesbased on some currently existing communities platforms and frameworks. We also discuss differentapproaches for querying and selecting Web services under the umbrella of Web services communities’.We compare the current approaches among each others with respect to some key requirements.
Publisher:
Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center (AIRCC) (provided by DOAJ)
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