Affiliation:
1. L3S Research Center and University of Hanover, Germany
Abstract
Dynamic selection of Web services at runtime is important for building flexible and loosely-coupled service-oriented applications. An abstract description of the required services is provided at design-time, and matching service offers are located at runtime. With the growing number of Web services that provide the same functionality but differ in quality parameters (e.g., availability, response time), a decision needs to be made on which services should be selected such that the user's end-to-end QoS requirements are satisfied. Although very efficient, local selection strategy fails short in handling global QoS requirements. Solutions based on global optimization, on the other hand, can handle global constraints, but their poor performance renders them inappropriate for applications with dynamic and realtime requirements. In this article we address this problem and propose a hybrid solution that combines global optimization with local selection techniques to benefit from the advantages of both worlds. The proposed solution consists of two steps: first, we use mixed integer programming (MIP) to find the optimal decomposition of global QoS constraints into local constraints. Second, we use distributed local selection to find the best Web services that satisfy these local constraints. The results of experimental evaluation indicate that our approach significantly outperforms existing solutions in terms of computation time while achieving close-to-optimal results.
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Subject
Computer Networks and Communications
Cited by
182 articles.
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