Foundations for efficient web service selection

The Web has evolved to encompass various information resources accessible worldwide. Organizations across all spectra have already moved their main operations to the Web, which has brought about a fast growth of various Web applications. Service oriented computing is emerging as a new computing paradigm for efficient deployment and access of these exponentially growing plethora of Web applications. The development of enabling technologies for such an infrastructure is expected to change the way of conducting business on the Web. Web services have become de facto the most significant technological by-product.