Affiliations: [a] Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), Leopold Franzens University Innsbruck, Austria | [b] Digital Enterprise Research Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland | [c] Computer Science Department, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid, Spain | Swinburne University of Technology, PO Box 218 Hawthorn, Victoria 3122, Australia
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Corresponding author: Digital Enterprise Research Institute, University of Innsbruck. Technikerstrasse 21a, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria. Tel.: +43 512 507 6476; Fax: +43 512 507 9872; E-mail: [email protected]
Abstract: An important step in realizing the vision of both Web services and Grid is the provision of a robust, automatic and reliable solution for finding services or resources in such environments. Different solutions to this problem were already proposed, each with its specific model and realization. Although all solutions address the same problem, it is very difficult for a non-expert and even for an expert in the field to decide if and why one solution is better then another. This paper proposes a systematic set of criteria, a framework, that can help in the evaluation of different discovery approaches. Furthermore some of the most relevant discovery approaches in Web services and Grid environments are surveyed and evaluated according to the proposed evaluation framework.
Keywords: Discovery, web services, grid, matchmaking, evaluation framework
