Replication Mechanisms Over a Set of Distributed UDDI Registries

This paper presents a research initiative, which aims at developing replication mechanisms for the dynamic management of the content of several Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) registries (Curbera et al., 2003). These replication mechanisms are intended to be deployed in an environment of Web services (Papazoglou & Georgakopoulos, 2003). By content of an UDDI registry, we mean the announcements of Web services that providers post on the UDDI registry. Unlike other research initiatives in the field of Web services that essentially consider a single UDDI registry and assume a wired and stable communication infrastructure, the following aspects constitute the core of this research initiative: