On optimal decision for QoS-aware composite service selection

Ping Wang*, Kuo-Ming Chao, Chi-Chun Lo

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Abstract

The increasing popularity of employing web services for distributed systems contributes to the significance of service discovery. However, duplicated and similar functional features existing among services require service consumers to include additional aspects to evaluate the services. Generally, the service consumers would have different view on the quality of service (QoS) of service attributes. How to select the best composite service in theory among available service (WS) candidates for consumers is an interesting practical issue. This work proposes a QoS-aware service selection model based on fuzzy linear programming (FLP) technologies, in order to identify their dissimilarity on service alternatives. assist service consumers in selecting most suitable services with consideration of their expectations and preferences. This approach can obtain the optimal solution of consensual weight of QoS attribute and fuzzy positive ideal solution (FPIS) by extending LINMAP method, developed by Srinivasan and Shocker. Finally, two numerical examples are given to demonstrate the process of QoS-aware web service selection. The experimental results demonstrated that it is a feasible and supplementary manner in selecting the of web services. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)440-449
JournalExpert Systems with Applications
Volume37
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2010

Keywords

  • Web services; Services selection; QoS; LINMAP; Fuzzy linear programming

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