Title :
A QoS ontology language for Web-services
Author :
Papaioannou, Ioannis V. ; Tsesmetzis, Dimitrios T. ; Roussaki, Ioanna G. ; Anagnostou, Miltiades E.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Greece
Abstract :
Recently, Web services (WSs) have evolved to a quite popular research field. Nevertheless, there are obstacles that prevent the introduction of WS provision in the wide market. Among these is the inability to represent the non-functional features of WSs, i.e. their quality-of-service. Integrating QoS features in WS profiles is to the advantage of both users and providers, as it enables QoS-aware WS selection and composition addressing the user´s QoS requirements and objectives, while giving WS providers a significant competitive advantage in the e-business domain, also maximizing their resources´ utilization. This paper focuses on the formulation of a QoS ontology framework that is used to support QoS-aware WS provision. It is based on work carried out in the IST-Amigo Integrated Project for Ambient Intelligence (AmI) homes, which, exploiting heterogeneous technologies and infrastructures, aims to develop an open, standardized, interoperable middleware for the provision of QoS-aware AmI WSs to domestic users.
Keywords :
Internet; electronic commerce; middleware; ontologies (artificial intelligence); open systems; quality of service; resource allocation; AmI; Ambient Intelligence; Amigo Integrated Project; IST; QoS ontology language; Web-service; e-business domain; interoperable middleware; nonfunctional features; quality-of-service; resource utilization; Ambient intelligence; Middleware; Ontologies; Quality of service; Service oriented architecture; Simple object access protocol; Vocabulary; Weather forecasting; Web services; XML;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Information Networking and Applications, 2006. AINA 2006. 20th International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2466-4
DOI :
10.1109/AINA.2006.51
