Web Service Discovery Mechanisms: Looking for a Needle in a Haystack?
John D. Garofalakis, Yannis Panagis, Evangelos Sakkopoulos, Athanasios Tsakalidis · 2004
The introduction of software development via Web Services has been the most significant web engineering paradigm, in the last years. The widely acknowledged importance of the Web Services' concept lies in the fact that they provide a platform independent answer to the software component development question.