Towards Autonomic Service Discovery - A Survey and Comparison

Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2009), Bangalore, India, September 21-25, 2009, pp. 192-201

Service-oriented architecture has become the standard paradigm for software component integration. However, with the permanently increasing amount of available services and dynamic changes, the complexity of such service infrastructures, their maintenance and consequently the expenditures spent for their operation increase equally. To deal with these effects, an improvement of service composition and discovery becomes necessary, especially a higher degree of automation. Following the idea of Autonomic Computing, which similarly aims at automating processes and workflows to a high degree, service composition and discovery have to proceed autonomously, which will reduce human involvement to a minimum. However, this requires certain capabilities on the part of these mechanisms. Thus, in this paper we define prime criteria that have to be fulfilled for an autonomic service discovery. Based on that we present a comprehensive survey on existing service discovery approaches and evaluate to which extent they already fulfill these criteria. This provides a thorough insight into the current state of research as well as reveals future research challenges towards an autonomic service discovery.

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