The Framework Supporting QoS-enabled Web Services

Web services are becoming the favorable infrastructure supporting distributed computing on Internet. To address the challenges of Quality of Service (QoS) for web services, this paper presents a generic framework supporting QoS-enabled web services by introducing two mechanisms- QoS extraction and QoS mapping. The proposed framework supports design, development and deployment of QoS-aware web services, and can be considered as the first step towards building a complete and robust infrastructure enabling QoS-aware web services.