Web Service Assurance: The Notion and the Issues

Marco Anisetti, Claudio A. Ardagna, Ernesto Damiani, Fulvio Frati, Hausi A. Müller and Atousa Pahlevan
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Marco Anisetti: Dipartimento di Tecnologie dell’Informazione, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Bramante 65–26013 Crema (CR), Italy
Claudio A. Ardagna: Dipartimento di Tecnologie dell’Informazione, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Bramante 65–26013 Crema (CR), Italy
Ernesto Damiani: Dipartimento di Tecnologie dell’Informazione, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Bramante 65–26013 Crema (CR), Italy
Fulvio Frati: Dipartimento di Tecnologie dell’Informazione, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Bramante 65–26013 Crema (CR), Italy
Hausi A. Müller: Department of Computer Science, University of Victoria, STN CSC, Victoria, BC V8W 3P6, Canada
Atousa Pahlevan: Department of Computer Science, University of Victoria, STN CSC, Victoria, BC V8W 3P6, Canada

Future Internet, 2012, vol. 4, issue 1, 1-18

Abstract: Web service technology provides basic infrastructure for deploying collaborative business processes. Web Service security standards and protocols aim to provide secure communication and conversation between service providers and consumers. Still, for a client calling a Web service it is difficult to ascertain that a particular service instance satisfies—at execution time—specific non-functional properties. In this paper we introduce the notion of certified Web service assurance, characterizing how service consumers can specify the set of security properties that a service should satisfy. Also, we illustrate a mechanism to re-check non-functional properties when the execution context changes. To this end, we introduce the concept of context-aware certificate, and describe a dynamic, context-aware service discovery environment.

Keywords: assurance; context-aware service certification; service discovery; service security; web service certification (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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