A similarity measure for the negotiation in web services

This paper presents a new negotiation approach integrating a similarity-based metric to measure the client’s satisfaction level by quantifying the correspondence between the features required by the client and the ones proposed by the service. This negotiation process is integrated within an adaptation platform for multimedia presentations supporting different types of terminals. The negotiation and adaptation processes are based on the management of user’s and service’s profiles. We also propose an extension of the SIP protocol to ensure the communication between the client and the server by defining new functionalities.