On checking the compatibility of web services´ policies

This paper discusses the compatibility issue between policies of Web services, which could refrain the automatic composition of these Web services from smoothly progressing. Policies regulate/constrain the functioning of Web services at three levels identified by business, behavior, and privacy. Because independent Web services collaborate with one another in order to satisfy users´ needs, their respective policies could be in contradiction. This could lead to conflicts and exceptions at run-time unless these contradictions are as a first step, detected and then, fixed. In this paper, WSPL is the language to specify policies of Web services.