An efficient framework for agent-based quality driven Web Services discovery

Web service technology is playing a major role in today's distributed system computing. The wide adoption of Web services raises the challenging problem of service discovery. With an increasing number of Web services providing similar functionalities, quality of service (QoS) is becoming an important criterion for selecting of the best available service. We aim to refine the discovery process through designing a new framework that enhances retrieval algorithms by combining syntactic and semantic matching of services. We propose a model of QoS-based Web services discovery that combines an augmented UDDI registry to publish the QoS information.