Semantic Analysis of E-Business Operations

To the best of our knowledge, there are no platforms that enable the definition, computation, and analysis of quality metrics on web services. However, there is a huge body of research on metrics in general, in just about every field of science, ranging from physics to philosophy. In fields close to web services, a lot of work has been done in the domains of networks, distributed systems, and distributed objectsrunning on top of interoperability platforms. Despite the fact that this earlier work had different scope and objectives, it inspired some of our design choices. In the following, we briefly present some existing contributions, and highlight differences with respect to the approach we propose. Networks and distributed systems are probably the areas in which the most work on measuring and management issues has been done, resulting in the development of standards and even commercial management platforms, HP OpenView and IBM Tivoli.