An Ontology for Web Service Ratings and Reputations

Current Web services standards enable publishing service descriptions and finding services by matching requested and published descriptions based on syntactic criteria such as method signatures or service category. Emerging approaches such as DAML-S use DAML to formalize richer models for expressing capabilities of services. DAML-S would go beyond WSDL in terms of the richness of service descriptions. However, neither current Web services standards nor DAML-S provide a basis for selecting a good service or for comparing services that implement the same interface. In our view