The emergence of service-oriented computing as a key-enabler of web applications and the subsequent increase in the web services available, has brought to the surface amajor disadvantage of service oriented architecture: there is no consistent way for the consumer to select services based on non-functional, quality requirements. Consumers perceive quality through the prism of their own experien...

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