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A survey of QoS-aware web service composition techniques

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Abstract

Web service composition can be briefly described as the process of aggregating services with disparate functionalities into a new composite service in order to meet increasingly complex needs of users. Service composition process has been accurate on dealing with services having disparate functionalities, however, over the years the number of web services in particular that exhibit similar functionalities and varying Quality of Service (QoS) has significantly increased. As such, the problem becomes how to select appropriate web services such that the QoS of the resulting composite service is maximized or, in some cases, minimized. This constitutes an NP-hard problem as it is complicated and difficult to solve. In this paper, a discussion of concepts of web service composition and a holistic review of current service composition techniques proposed in literature is presented. Our review spans several publications in the field that can serve as a road map for future research.

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Research Output: Contribution to journal Article Peer-review

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 10-17

Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

International Journal of Computer Applications (Volume 89, Issue 12)

Publication milestones

  • Published - 01/03/2014

Publication status

Published - 01/03/2014

ISSN

0975-8887

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/336108

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