Requirements for QoS-based Web service description and discovery

IEEE Transactions on Services Computing

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 320-337

  Kritikos, Kyriakos ^a,b   Plexousakis, Dimitris ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Constraint programming; QoS modeling; Quality of service; Requirements engineering; Service discovery; Service matchmaking; Service selection; Web services; Web based services

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT PROGRAMMING; ENGINEERING SERVICE; QOS MODELING; SERVICE MATCHMAKING; WEB-BASED SERVICE;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; CONSTRAINT THEORY; INFORMATION SERVICES; QUALITY CONTROL; QUALITY OF SERVICE; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; SEMANTICS; SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA); TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES); WEB SERVICES;

TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

EID: 73349115227     PISSN: 19391374     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSC.2009.26     Document Type: Conference Paper

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