Advances on QoS-aware web service selection and composition with nature-inspired computing

• Published in: CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology Vol. 4; no. 3; pp. 159 - 174
• Main Authors: Zhao, Xinchao, Li, Rui, Zuo, Xingquan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Beijing The Institution of Engineering and Technology 01.09.2019; John Wiley & Sons, Inc; Wiley
• Subjects: Algorithms; Artificial intelligence; C6110B Software engineering techniques; C6190J Internet software; composite service; Composition; Computation; Critical path; dynamic business environment; individual component; Integer programming; Internet service providers; Knapsack problem; Linear programming; nature-inspired computing approaches; nature-inspired Web selection; optimal QoS; QoS-aware web service composition; QoS-aware Web Service selection; Quality of service; Quality of service architectures; Semantic web; Semantics; service information; service quality; service-oriented architecture; Special Issue: Advances in Bio-inspired Heuristics for Computing; User satisfaction; Web services; optimal QoS; QoS-aware Web Service selection; service quality; dynamic business environment; composite service; quality of service; individual component; QoS-aware web service composition; Web services; nature-inspired computing approaches; nature-inspired Web selection; service information; service-oriented architecture
• ISSN: 2468-2322; 2468-2322
• DOI: 10.1049/trit.2019.0018

Service-oriented architecture is becoming a major software framework for complex application and it can be dynamically and flexibly composed by integrating existing component web services provided by different providers with standard protocols. The rapid introduction of new web services into a dynamic business environment can adversely affect the service quality and user satisfaction. Therefore, how to leverage, aggregate and make use of individual component's quality of service (QoS) information to derive the optimal QoS of the composite service which meets the needs of users is still an ongoing hot research problem. This study aims at reviewing the advance of the current state-of-the-art in technologies and inspiring the possible new ideas for web service selection and composition, especially with nature-inspired computing approaches. Firstly, the background knowledge of web services is presented. Secondly, various nature-inspired web selection and composition approaches are systematically reviewed and analysed for QoS-aware web services. Finally, challenges, remarks and discussions about QoS-aware web service composition are presented.