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The growing of computer networks and transmission capacity causes the possibility of a rising amount of service offers in distributed systems. One of the CORBAservices is the trading service, which supports clients in searching for suitable services.
This paper introduces an evaluation process for selecting an optimal service offer from a trader's service directory. This mechanism uses a service distance function for computing the distance between a service request and a service offer. Minimizing this distance yields an optimal service. Therefore, existing methods for distance computation between vectors are used, and a new rulework for computing the distance between single service properties is developed. The resulting evaluation procedure is used for an implementation in a CORBA trader.
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Thißen, D., Linnhoff-Popien, C. (1996). Finding optimal services within a CORBA trader. In: Spaniol, O., Linnhoff-Popien, C., Meyer, B. (eds) Trends in Distributed Systems CORBA and Beyond. TreDS 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1161. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61842-2_37
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