A Business Rules Driven Framework for Consumer-Provider Contracting of Web Services

In this paper we present a scalable and extensible architecture of a business rule management framework. This representation can be used for agent based automatic negotiation and re-negotiation of web services. To ensure scalability and extensibility our architecture is based on the service oriented design pattern using ontologies. Finally we develop a prototype based on our business rules framework which simplifies business logic modification and maintenance for both service-provider and -consumer.