LASS- License Aware Service Selection: Methodology and Framework

Abstract. A service provider defines individual services with corre-sponding service licenses which consumers should follow. Often, service consumers are interested in selecting a service based on certain licensing clauses. For a set of requested licensing clauses by a consumer, there can be several licenses that differ in the set of offered license specifications. Thus, a license aware service selection process includes the discovery of a set of services that meets certain functional parameters and, in addi-tion, the process evaluates these services in order to identify the ones that fulfill a set of license specifications as requested by a consumer. In this paper, we present a methodology and framework for service selec-tion process, based on matching the offered licensing specifications by providers with the requested licensing specifications by consumers5.