Nowadays the trends of web is to become a collection of services that interoperate through the Internet. The first step towards this inter-operation is finding services that meet requester requirements; which is called a service discovery. Service discovery matches functional and non-functional properties of the requester with the provider. In this paper, an enhanced matching algorithm of Web Service Security Policy (WS-SP) is proposed to perform requirement-capability matchmaking of a consumer and a provider. Web service security policy specifies the security requirements or capabilities of a web service participant (a provider or a consumer). Security requirement or a capability of a participant is one of the non-functional properties of a web service. The security addressed through this paper is the integrity and the confidentiality of web service SOA message transmitted between participants. The enhanced matching algorithm states simple policy and complex policy cases of the web service security as a non-functional attribute. A generalization matching algorithm is introduced to get the best-matched web service provider from a list of available providers for serving the consumer.
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