Policy Based Accounting for Web Services

MuthuLakshmi, V.; Anand, S.

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-27317-9_8

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“…Users have so far been charged either a flat rate or on basis of Internet connection/session time. There is a need to integrate charging and accounting with the provisioning of web services to enable service providers to bill users for their service usage (MuthuLakshmi and Anand, 2012). However, the distributed nature of web service components poses a big challenge for web service accounting.…”

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“…Each service provider may like to have a unique charging and pricing methodology. There is the need to automate the metering of web service usage and to calculate the payment based on the charging patterns of individual service providers (MuthuLakshmi and Anand, 2012).…”

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“…We had proposed a Policy based Accounting Architecture (WS-PACT) to integrate and automate the accounting functions and management (MuthuLakshmi and Anand, 2012) Accounting based on service charging policies provides flexibility in accounting and enables the automating of metering and charging functions to meet the service provider's requirements.…”

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A Generic Charging Policy Based Accounting for Web Services

MuthuLakshmi¹,

Anand²

2012

Journal of Computer Science

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Problem statement: Metering and charging are basic accounting functions that are essential for commercial usage of web services. Current charging and accounting schemes primarily involve users being charged flat or based on the connection/session time. Accounting management of web services should provide for metering, charging, accounting, billing, payment and auditing. We have extended our earlier work, a Policy based Accounting for Web Services (WS-PACT), to develop a generic and comprehensive charging policy that can cater to different charging patterns. WS-PACT provides a flexible model to meet the varying billing and payment needs of service providers. Approach: Policies are expressed in WS-Policy and policy query facility has been developed using XQuery. Results: Users can use the query facility to obtain the charges being levied and can decide on which services to use by taking into account their preferred spending limits and payment patterns. Conclusion: We have implemented and tested the charging policy and query facility with a sample application.

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confidence: 99%

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