A taxonomy of trust oriented approaches for services computing

Abstract

Trust oriented services computing and in more specific trust based service discovery, selection, and composition have become one of the recent critical issues in today's web environment. This has led to a demand for a trustworthy service oriented mechanisms. A number of approaches with variety of mechanisms and solutions have been proposed to resolve the problem. The aim of this paper is to present a taxonomy for service oriented computing and apply the taxonomy to categorize trust based service discovery, selection, and composition approaches. Moreover, the results of taxonomy are presented in a way to identify open issues in this area of research.