LASS - License aware service selection: Methodology and framework

A service provider defines individual services with corresponding service licenses which consumers should follow. Often, service consumers are interested in selecting a service based on certain licensing clauses. For a set of requested licensing clauses by a consumer, there can be several licenses that differ in the set of offered license specifications. Thus, a license aware service selection process includes the discovery of a set of services that meets certain functional parameters and, in addition, the process evaluates these services in order to identify the ones that fulfill a set of license specifications as requested by a consumer. In this paper, we present a methodology and framework for service selection process, based on matching the offered licensing specifications by providers with the requested licensing specifications by consumers. © 2008 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.