AUTOMATED COMPOSITION OF WEB SERVICE WORKFLOW - A Novel QoS-Enabled Multi-Criteria Cost Search Algorithm

Jaina Sangtani, Gursel Serpen

2010

Abstract

The introduction of software technology has dramatically increased the efficiency of completing tasks. Code reusability provides efficiency within the software engineering discipline. With the tumultuous increase in acceptance of service oriented architecture, and thus, a rise in the number of web services, skilled software developers spend a lot of time composing web service workflows, rather than creating innovative and efficient services. Hence, we put forward a technique of code reusability that utilizes heuristic based search methods to automate service workflow composition by weighting quality of service criteria by relevance and importance to the users. We implement a novel and heuristic-based graph creation and search algorithm where the heuristic function value is calculated through the uniform cost search based on each of the quality of service criteria specified by the user. Application of the proposed automated workflow composition algorithm is illustrated with success on an industry-grade service-oriented architecture problem.

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Sangtani J. and Serpen G. (2010). AUTOMATED COMPOSITION OF WEB SERVICE WORKFLOW - A Novel QoS-Enabled Multi-Criteria Cost Search Algorithm . In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE, ISBN 978-989-8425-21-8, pages 122-131. DOI: 10.5220/0003000301220131


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@conference{enase10,
author={Jaina Sangtani and Gursel Serpen},
title={AUTOMATED COMPOSITION OF WEB SERVICE WORKFLOW - A Novel QoS-Enabled Multi-Criteria Cost Search Algorithm},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,},
year={2010},
pages={122-131},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003000301220131},
isbn={978-989-8425-21-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,
TI - AUTOMATED COMPOSITION OF WEB SERVICE WORKFLOW - A Novel QoS-Enabled Multi-Criteria Cost Search Algorithm
SN - 978-989-8425-21-8
AU - Sangtani J.
AU - Serpen G.
PY - 2010
SP - 122
EP - 131
DO - 10.5220/0003000301220131