Analysis of Trust-Based Approaches for Web Service Selection
Nicola Dragoni, Nicola Miotto · 2011
The basic tenet of Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) is the possibility of building distributed applications on the Web by using Web services as fundamental building blocks. The proliferation of such services is considered the second wave of evolution in the Internet age, moving the Web from a collection of pages to a collections of services. Consensus is growing that this Web service revolution wont eventuate until we resolve trust-related issues. Indeed, the intrinsic openness of the SOC vision makes crucial to locate useful services and recognize them as trustworthy. In this paper we review the field of trust-based Web service selection, providing a structured classification of current approaches and highlighting the main limitations of each class and of the overall field.