Software services are emerging as the dominant component technology for distributed applications. Using standardized interfaces, clients can remotely access functionality or resources offered by service providers. In e-commerce applications, often such services will be fee-based. Usage metering and Accounting thus form important components of an e-services infrastructure. The metering and accounting problem takes on added complexity with composite e-services - higher-level services built using simpler underlying services, each of which may be independently owned. In this paper we present an architecture for the metering and accounting of composite service usage.
Citation:
Vikas Agarwal, Neeran Karnik, Arun Kumar, "Metering and Accounting for Composite e-Services," cec, pp.35, 2003 IEEE International Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC'03), 2003