Towards A Meta-Model for Service Properties
Jens Hündling · DROPS (Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics) · 2006
Service Oriented Computing offers a promising approach for global businesses and integrated, virtual enterprises that achieve common business goals. For realizing an exhaustive Service Oriented Architecture, some basic research is still necessary and a consensus has to be reached about key aspects. We argue that a key aspect is a common model for enriched service descriptions, especially for all use cases related to service discovery. For automated discovery, these service descriptions need to be specified in a formal, computer-readable way. Additionally, properties of services that are beyond technical interface specifications should be modelled, e.g. by including Quality of Service (QoS) properties.