Structured Documents for Representing Services in Internet Marketplaces

Abstract

Internet Marketplaces are a new computational paradigm with a huge economic potential. These markets extend the concept of electronic commerce by putting an emphasis on simple access and combination of data and computational services. Among the different market services offered, service repositories are vital for the success of the Internet Marketplace. Service repositories not only act as interfaces between marketplace users (i.e., customers and providers) and the marketplace infrastructure, but also between the different heterogeneous services. On the one hand, they should allow service providers to register their complex services with minimal effort. On the other hand, customers should be able to locate and combine services easily without having to struggle with technical details. Additionally, because of highly dynamic service collections service repositories should be open and extensible In this paper, we present our MMM service market architecture in which service registration, s..