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Toward Autonomic Web Services Trust and Selection ∗ E. Michael Maximilien Munindar P. Singh IBM and NCSU North Carolina State University 5506 Six Forks Road Department of Computer Science Raleigh, NC 27609 Raleigh, NC 27695 maxim@ singh@ ABSTRACT 1. INTRODUCTION Emerging Web services standards enable the development The Web services architecture, standards, and technolo- of large-scale applications in open environments. In particu- gies support describing, finding, and binding to services. lar, they enable services to be dynamically bound. However, The overarching vision is that services would be dynami- current techniques fail to address the critical problem of se- cally created and administered, and would be incorporated lecting the right service instances. Service selection should into software systems in execution without the need for fre- be determined based on user preferences and business poli- quent human intervention. Although the current Web ser- cies, and consider the trustworthiness of service instances. vices standards and technologies are necessary to realize this We propose a multiagent approach that naturally provides vision, they are far from sufficient. a solution to the selection problem. This approach is based In simple terms, between finding and binding lies an