Making Web services tradable. A policy-based approach for specifying preferences on Web service properties

Web Semantics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 11-20

  Agarwal, Sudhir ^a   Lamparter, Steffen ^a   Studer, Rudi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automated negotiations; Preferences for functional non functional properties; Web service policies

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; INFORMATION SERVICES; LINGUISTICS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; QUERY LANGUAGES; WEB SERVICES;

AUTOMATED NEGOTIATIONS; DATA OBJECTS; NEGOTIATION ALGORITHMS; POLICY LANGUAGES; PREFERENCES FOR FUNCTIONAL/NON-FUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES; QOS ATTRIBUTES; SERVICE INFORMATIONS; SERVICE PROPERTIES; SERVICE PROVIDERS; SERVICE SELECTIONS; SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURES; UTILITY FUNCTIONS; WEB SERVICE POLICIES;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 58049217125     PISSN: 15708268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.websem.2008.02.001     Document Type: Article

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