R.: Service license composition and compatibility analysis

Services enable the transformation of the World Wide Web as distributed interoper-able systems interacting beyond organizational boundaries. Service licensing enables broader usage of services and a means for designing business strategies and relation-ships. A service license describes the terms and conditions for the use and access of the service in a machine interpretable way that services could be able to under-stand. Service-based applications are largely grounded on composition of independent services. In that scenario, license compatibility is a complex issue, requiring careful attention before attempting to merge licenses. The permissions and the prohibitions imposed by the licenses of services would deeply impact the composition. Thus, service licensing requires a comprehensive analysis on composition of these rights and require-ments conforming to the nature of operations performed and compensation of services used in composition. In this paper, we analyze the compatibility of service license by describing a matchmaking algorithm. Further, we illustrate the composability of service licenses by creating a composite service license that is compatible with the licenses being composed