Managing Web Service Quality: Measuring Outcomes and Effectiveness (Premier Reference Source)

✍ Scribed by Khaled, M.d. Khan

• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 419
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Web services are increasingly important in information technology with the expansive growth of the Internet. As services proliferate in domains ranging from e-commerce to digital government, the need for tools and methods to measure and guide the achievement of quality outcomes is critical for organizations. Managing Web Service Quality: Measuring Outcomes and Effectiveness focuses on the advances in Web service quality, covering topics such as quality requirements, security issues, and development and integration methods of providing quality services. Covering both technical and managerial issues related to Web service quality, this authoritative collection provides academicians, researchers, and practitioners with the most advanced research in the field.

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page
......Page 2
Table of Contents......Page 4
Detailed Table of Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 16
Acknowledgment......Page 23
The Development, Testing, and
Deployment of a Web Services
Infrastructure for Distributed
Healthcare Delivery, Research,
and Training......Page 26
Multi-Tier Framework for
Management of Web Services’
Quality......Page 48
Quality Models for Multimedia
Delivery in a Services Oriented
Architecture......Page 73
Virtual Web Services:
Extension Architecture to Alleviate
Open Problems in Web Services
Technology......Page 99
Profiling of Web Services
to Measure and Verify their
Non-Functional Properties......Page 121
Enhancing the Web Service
Description and Discovery
Processes with QoS......Page 139
Web Services Dependability......Page 176
Transactional Composite
Applications......Page 193
A Logic Programming Based
Framework for Intelligent Web
Service Composition......Page 218
Enhancing the Testability of
Web Services......Page 248
Aspect-Oriented Framework for
Web Services (AoF4WS):
Introduction and Two Example
Case Studies......Page 270
Open Security Framework for
Unleashing Semantic Web
Services......Page 289
Providing Web Services Security
SLA Guarantees:
Issues and Approaches......Page 311
Adoption of Web Services in
Digital Libraries:
An Exploratory Study......Page 332
Service Evolution and
Maintainability......Page 346
The Role of Web Services:
A Balance Scorecard Perspective......Page 367
Compilation of References......Page 383
About the Contributors......Page 407
Index......Page 417