Automated Selection of Configurable Web Services

To bring service-oriented architectures to their full potential, automatic service discovery and selection mechanisms are required. In this paper, a service selection component is presented that supports offers providing multiple configurations of a service. The selection algorithm ranks the offered services and their configurations according to the requester’s preferences and thus facilitates personalized selection strategies. In addition, the approach leverages existing Web standards to provide a maximal degree of interoperability between service providers and their customers leading to significant efficiency gains. The approach is implemented prototypically and the performance is evaluated by means of a simulation.