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 oil 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 oil matching the offered licensing specifications by providers with the requested licensing specifications by consumers.(1)