Foundations for Efficient Web Service Selection
Foundations for Efficient Web Service Selection describes the foundational framework for efficient Web service selection. It lays out a theoretical underpinning for the design of models and algorithms for searching and optimizing access to Web services. E
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Qi Yu • Athman Bouguettaya
Foundations for Efficient Web Service Selection Foreword by Fabio Casati
Qi Yu College of Computing and Information Sciences Rochester Institute of Technology 1 Lomb Memorial Drive Rochester, NY 14623-5603 USA [email protected]
Athman Bouguettaya CSIRO ICT Center Computer Sci. & Information Tech. Bldg. North Road Canberra, ACT 2601 Australia [email protected]
ISBN 978-1-4419-0313-6 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-0314-3 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-0314-3 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2009933095 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2009 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights.
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To my wife Xumin and my daughter Emily for their love, encouragement, and support. Qi Yu
To my wife Malika and my three children Zakaria, Ayoub, and Mohamed-Islam. Athman Bouguettaya
Foreword
The problem of search in Web services has been attracting the attention of researchers over the last decade. The reason for this is that as service technology evolves and as more services become available (and even more now with the advent of cloud computing) it becomes important to be able to locate the service that meets our needs within a large and sometimes dense cloud of offering. Many, often “spot” proposals have been put forward to address the problem and several standards have been defined, but none of these has been effective or is now accepted as the way to perform service search. This excellent book looks at the search problem from a broader perspective. Instead of narrowing down on a specific aspect or subproblem of service search, it dissects and analyzes the fundamental problems in search and presents concrete, applicable solutions as well as the theoretical foundations behind them. In particular, Yu and Bouguettaya define the notion and the characteristics of a Web Services Management System, which is the service analogous of a DBMS. They define why a WSMS is needed, and what makes it similar to and different from a DBMS. They specify a service model and a service algebra for querying Web services. All these aspects denote a rigorous and holistic approach to the problem which not only supports the search techniques provided in the book but that can be used as an underlying framework for res
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