DART-Man: a management platform for Web services based on semantic Web technologies

Today´s industries exhibit a growing trend towards benefiting from Web services. However, management complexity also grows with the number and type of services deployed. How to help users discover an appropriate service from tremendous ones, how to provide security access to target service, how to supply reliable service, and how to integrate commerce into services executing process become significant challenges. Therefore, companies soon require facilities that support and automate their management efforts. Furthermore, existing Web services management facilities, which lack structure and computer understandable metadata, prohibit users from managing Web services effectively. To address above issues, this paper elaborates a semantic Web technologies based service-management solution, called Dart-Man, towards making Web service management more flexible and automated.