A Dynamic Reputation-Based Approach for Web Services Discovery

Web services discovery is a crucial process in the service-oriented architecture (SOA). This process depends on the functional and non-functional (Quality of services (QoS)) properties of the published services. Functional properties present the objectives of the service and the quality of the service indicates the performance of the service. Reputation of the services is one of the important QoS properties. Assigning robust and precise reputation values for the service affects positively in the output of the web services discovery process by returning the most relevant services for the consumer. In this paper, we propose an approach for updating reputation of the Web services based on the trust factors of the consumers and two pre-defined thresholds, reputation threshold, and agreement threshold. The proposed approach is implemented and tested on a set of services. The results show that the proposed reputation updating approach is powerful and gives robust and precise results in a dynamic way. As a consequence, the web service discovery process which is based on the proposed approach gives a robust and precise results in a dynamic way.