Discovering Web Services: an overview

Summary: Introduces Web Service Directories (WSD) as a nascent database-application class and why evolving computing environments demand scalable, standards-driven service discovery. Surveys current products, emerging standards, and research directions shaping WSD design and interoperability in data-management stacks. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 8983
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2001
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Overall Rank: 14,052 | 3.60%
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1. Vadim Draluk (BEA Systems)

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@article{draluk_vldb01,
        title = {{Discovering Web Services: an overview}},
        author = {Draluk, Vadim},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '01},
        year = {2001}
}

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