GLUE2: A Web Service Discovery Engine with Non-Functional Properties

Abstract

The increasing availability of Web services asked for investigating ways to automate the discovery process. Discovery processes enhanced with semantics can be recognize to be general, but often they lack the flexibility needed in specific domains. In this paper, we propose the flexible architecture of the discovery engine Glue2, which comes with a powerful set of discovery components (for functional matching, non-functional matching, data fetching, etc.) that can be executed in different order as required by specific execution workflows.