Pricing Web Services

Authors Oliver Günther, Gerrit Tamm, Frank Leymann



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Oliver Günther
Gerrit Tamm
Frank Leymann

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Oliver Günther, Gerrit Tamm, and Frank Leymann. Pricing Web Services. In The Role of Business Processes in Service Oriented Architectures. Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 6291, pp. 1-13, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2006) https://doi.org/10.4230/DagSemProc.06291.12

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This paper focuses on the challenges associated with composing and pricing web services. We present the results of an online experiment, where subjects were confronted with a variety of choices and decisions relating to web service markets and service composition. Our analysis shows that people expect the price of a composite web service to be lower than the sum of the prices of the elementary services, i.e., users are not willing to pay for aggregation by a third party. To obtain a viable business model for composed web services, non-standard pricing mechanisms, such as auctions and negotiations, possibly supported by electronic agents, have to be taken into consideration. Usage-based pricing schemes, combined with an option to switch to a flat subscription, seem most appropriate to penetrate the developing web service market.

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  • Composite web services
  • pricing

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