Service discovery is a very important component of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA). This paper presents two alternative approaches to customise the query results of private service registry such as Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI). The customisation is performed based on some pre-defined and/or real-time changing parameters. This work identifies the requirements, des...

Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET) is an infrastructure-less network formed between a set of mobile nodes. The discovery of services in MANET is a challenging job due to the unique properties of network. In this paper, a novel service discovery framework called Hybrid Association Rules Based Network Layer Discovery of Services for Ad hoc Networks (HANDY) has been proposed. HANDY provides three major...

This work proposes a Web Service (WS) discovery model in which the functional and non-functional requirements are taken into account during service discovery. The proposed infrastructure includes a set of services and tools to support an integrated WS discovery and selection solution. A mechanism is introduced that supports three different functional policies. It is able to take advantage of qu...

The Many-to-Many-Invocation (M2MI) Service Discovery Middleware Framework provides an API for publishing, providing, and using services in a serverless ad hoc network of devices implementing the M2MI architecture. It is built on top of the M2MI layer, as a middleware to interact with user applications and facilitate the deployment, use, and providing of services. The middleware uses the M2MI ar...

Service discovery protocols are used in distributed systems to locate services for clients. The services that are located as well as the clients requesting service are commonly assumed to be trustworthy and reliable. This assumption can lead to security problems, particularly when clients and services are transient, as is the case with mobile networks. Authentication is commonly used in an atte...

With the prevalence of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), end-users, who are not familiar with SOA standards and tools, want to customize services to fulfill their daily activities. However, it is challenging for end-users to get involved in the service composition, due to the in-depth knowledge needed for SOA standards and techniques. To help end-users compose services for their daily activi...

Mobile computing and mobile devices such as handhelds, laptops and even wearable computers, are changing the way we live and work. With numerous services available on the Internet, the problem of configuring the system for each service becomes a problem and is further compounded for the mobile user who moves into foreign networks that have unknown infrastructures. Service discovery aims to simp...

─To support m-commerce applications, a service discovery mechanism where services can announce their presence and mobile users can locate these services is needed. Service discovery in dynamic mobile environments poses many challenges such as service providers may create and delete services or servers anytime; mobile services may be deployed in various forms, etc. In this paper, we propose a de...

PiMP (The Pimpant Management Protocol), was a tremendous step forward in the management of Hoares. However, PiMP has been shown to only work effectively in the local area, with a small cluster of clients. Recently, much work has been performed in the arena of Escort Services, an attempt to generalize the work of Hoare Monitors to the wide area. We present an algorithm for discovering such servi...

Semantic service discovery is the process of locating Web services based on the description of their functional and non-functional semantics. Both service oriented computing and the semantic Web envision intelligent agents to proactively pursue this task on behalf of their clients. Service discovery can be performed in different ways depending on the service description framework, on means of s...