Discriminant Analysis of Web Services Successability
F. Ezhil Mary Arasi, Sabarinathan Govindaraj, A. Subbarayan · Journal of Applied Sciences · 2016
Background and Objective: Web Services are e-services have become an important method for online business services.Service oriented architecture is based on combining several web services each one responsible to develop a concrete task, in order to obtain full professional software.Quality of service is an important attribute for selecting a web service during the service composition process and it encompasses a group of nonfunctional properties viz., response time, reliability, availability, throughput, latency, successabilty, best practices, documentation and compliance.Methodology: An attempt is made to apply discriminant analysis method for identifying the properties that are discriminating.A discriminant analysis model is constructed using successability percentage as he categorized variable and treating the predictor variables viz., availability, reliability and the compliance.Results: Results clearly reveal that availability is the primary one which discriminants between the percentages of successability (below 75% and above 75%).Conclusion: Preliminary analysis indicates that there exists significant difference in means for availability and compliance.