Abstract

The main objective of this thesis is to present a method of description that satisfies a varied set of needs issued by Web service market participants. This method of description is to raise the quality of the whole process of Web service description and retrieval for the sake of organizations following the Service Oriented Architecture paradigm taking into account various issues important from the information economics perspective. To validate this statement a methodology built upon the Concept-Knowledge theory, Design Science and the traditional research tools was applied. The research activities were focused on establishing the Key Requirement Aspects from the domain literature supported with a variety of business users willing to participate in informal interviews. The requirements formulated took into account the varying utility of a Web service for its users in the electronic economy setting. The successful extraction of the Key Requirement Aspects allowed for critical analysis of the available solutions used to describe and retrieve Web service function-