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The Mobile intermittent wireless connectivity limits the evolution of the mobile landscape, such that this progress coupled with the ubiquitous nature of the Internet and the web services. The web service Reliability achieves the low overhead communication and retrieves the appropriate state response from the web service consumption. This paper discusses and analyzes the most recent approaches that achieve the reliability of web services consumed by mobile devices. Achieving the reliable web service consumption istended to two approaches: Middleware approach and Mobile Agent(MA) approach. Both of them focus on ensuring the request execution under the communication limitations and services temporary unavailability., 2015 IEEE Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Information Systems (ICICIS). IEEE, 2015. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2207.12404, arXiv:2207.11608

In this article we have presented the design and implementation of the MIDAS system for automated supply chain management. MIDAS allows customers, manufacturers, and suppliers to cooperate over the Internet and the World Wide Web. It aims to meet the needs of the customers on time, and to reduce the costs of the manufacturer by eliminating the need for a large inventory. As a Service Oriented Architecture based on Web Services, MIDAS increases business flexibility and enables businesses to adapt more quickly to changing business needs. At the manufacturer, MIDAS uses two phases in processing orders from the customers: The Waiting phase in which it aggregates orders from the customers before it makes Quote requests from the suppliers, and the Quotes phase in which it collects Quote replies from the suppliers before deciding on the supplier that will provide the particular supply. The manufacturer can use one of several strategies to decide how long to wait to collect orders from customers or quotes from suppliers. We have presented an evaluation of these strategies based on our implementation. We have described the services of MIDAS related to information flows. Relationships and dependencies between the components that constitute a material might exist. For example, a particular kind of video card might be usable only with a particular kind of motherboard; therefore, the video card cannot be processed before the motherboard is determined. In the future, we plan to augment the MIDAS system with a workflow component that handles the relationships and dependencies between the components of a material. We also plan to design and implement the services related to product flows and financial flows. The MIDAS system, presented here, deals with business processes up to the point where the decision to do business with a specific supplier is completed. However, the status of an order might change after the manufacturer has placed an order with a supplier. For example, if the delivery time changes, this information needs to be updated and the customer needs to be informed. MIDAS might use historical data to allow the manufacturer to make decisions at two decision points, the decision to issue Quote requests after collecting orders from the customers and the decision to stop collecting Quote replies and place an order with a particular supplier. Depending on the rates at which the customers place orders, the DB Monitor can adjust its timeout or threshold values accordingly. The Quotes Manager can select better suppliers dynamically by waiting until it receives Quote replies from the suppliers whose Quote replies were previously ignored because they were too late.

Revisiting the concept and typology of co-production, this study discusses web-based co-production and crowdsourcing of public services, in particular, how information communication technology changes the nature of co-production and how citizens and governments collaborate in designing and producing public services. With the advent of social media and continued development of web technologies, for example, open government initiatives taken by many countries facilitate web-based interaction between citizens and governments. Linking traditional co-production with web-based co-production, we propose and discuss four different types of web-based co-production characterized by the roles of citizens and governments in the design and delivery of public services. We provide illustrations of each type through selected cases and then discuss policy implications.

The web service computing paradigm has introduced great benefits to the growth of e-markets, both under the customer to business and the business to business models. The value capabilities allowed by the conception of web services, such as interoperability, efficiency, just-in-time integration, etc., have made them the most common way of doing business online. With the maturation of the web services underlying functional properties and facilitating standards, and with the proliferation of the amounts of data they use and they generate, researchers and practitioners have been dedicating considerable efforts to the related emerging privacy concerns. The literature contains number of research works on these privacy concerns, each addressing them from a different focal point. We have explored the available literature on web services privacy during transactions, to present, in this paper, a thorough survey of the most relevant published proposals. We identified 20 works that address privacy related problems in web services consumption. We categorize them based on the approach they take and we compare them based on a proposed evaluation framework, derived from the adopted techniques and addressed requirements.

Proliferation of Web services based applications, collaboration and interoperability between companies, extremely heterogeneous policies of security, and, more generally, reply attacks over Internet are major challenges in the design of security infrastructures for Web services. In this paper, we focus our study on authentication of composite Web services. Authentication is certainly at the heart of any secure system. Thus, we propose a distributed model of authentication based on the circle of trust concept for composite Web services. This model has several functionalities: First, it ensures authentication for arbitrary composite Web services over Internet. Second, it can process across and beyond domain authentication boundaries. Third, it takes over the conflicts of security policies using the concept of Web Single Sign On (SSO) and client's profile using ontologies. Furthermore, the proposed model is scalable and dynamic because it is designed in a fully distributed manner, there are no central points and it evolves over time. An implementation of a prototype and a simulation design demonstrate that a strong security can be achieved for both the client and the composite Web service through the combination of a dynamic and collaborative trust model with a number of enhancements: (i) a combined encryption technique, (ii) a distributed authority of certificates, and (iii) semantic annotations.

In recent years, service-based applications are deemed to be one of the new solutions to build an enterprise application system. In order to answer the most demanding needs or adaptations to the needs of changed services quickly, service composition is currently used to exploit the multi-service capabilities in the Information Technology organizations. While web services, which have been independently developed, may not always be compatible with each other, the selection of optimal services and composition of these services are seen as a challenging issue. In this paper, we present cuckoo search algorithm for web service composition problem which is called ‘CSA-WSC’ that provides web service composition to improve the quality of service (QoS) in the distributed cloud environment. The experimental results indicate that the CSA-WSC compared to genetic search skyline network (GS-S-Net) and genetic particle swarm optimization algorithm (GAPSO-WSC) reduces the costs by 7% and responding time by 6%, as two major reasons for the reduction of improvement of the quality of service. It also increases provider availability up to 7.25% and the reliability to 5.5%, as the two important QoS criteria for improving the quality of service.

Building hospital applications based on services allow hospitals and other organizations to cooperate and make use of business functions. Hospital information systems that involve extensive information exchange across hospitals and organization boundaries, such as patient profiles, can easily be automated. Service-based applications can be constructed by linking services from various providers using either a standard programming language or a specialized workflow language. This paper reviews the use of computer technology which supports health services in Bangkok, Thailand by developing a survey of health services in hospitals, in which the focus is on the attitudes and competence of medical students and physicians, and the availability of health services equipment; and analyzing and providing guidance via a web service that supports health services. A prototype of a web application is created to simulate situations of the use of computer-based devices for supporting clinical operations, involving 12 medical doctors and 3 patients. Two cases are analysed to demonstrate different situations of the web service. In such situations, stakeholders are requested to query patient information and specify the documents. The experiments have been evaluated by considering straightforward criteria to perform activities with the prototype to determine how accurate the documents are requested and specified, and evaluate how the health service performs efficiently.

Quality of service (QoS) has been playing an increasingly important role in today’s Web service environment. Many techniques have been proposed to recommend personalized Web services to customers. However, existing methods only utilize the QoS information at the client-side and neglect the contextual characteristics of the service. Based on the fact that the quality of Web service is affected by its context feature, this paper proposes a new QoS-aware Web service recommendation system, which considers the contextual feature similarities of different services. The proposed system first extracts the contextual properties from WSDL files to cluster Web services based on their feature similarities, and then utilizes an improved matrix factorization method to recommend services to users. The proposed framework is validated on a real-world dataset consisting of over 1.5 million Web service invocation records from 5825 Web services and 339 users. The experimental results prove the efficiency and accuracy of the proposed method.

Web services offer a more reliable and efficient way to access online data than scraping web pages. However, interacting with web services to retrieve data often requires people to write a lot of code. Moreover, many web services return data in complex hierarchical structures that make it difficult for people to perform any further data manipulation. We developed Gneiss, a tool that extends the familiar spreadsheet metaphor to support using structured web service data. Gneiss lets users retrieve or stream arbitrary JSON data returned from web services to a spreadsheet using interaction techniques without writing any code. It introduces a novel visualization that represents hierarchies in data using nested spreadsheet cells and allows users to easily reshape and regroup the extracted structured data. Data flow is two-way between the spreadsheet and the web services, enabling people to easily make a new web service call and retrieve new data by modifying spreadsheet cells. We report results form a user study that showed that Gneiss helped spreadsheet users use and analyze structured data more efficiently than Excel and even outperform professional programmers writing code. We further use a set of examples to demonstrate our tool's ability to create reusable data extraction and manipulation programs that work with complex web service data.

The availability of educational resources on the Web is an efficient way of acquiring and sharing the knowledge through e-Learning. Nowadays there are hundreds of learning objects on the Internet; these objects are developed under e-Learning specifications and standards, such as SCORM and IMS Content Package. These standards allow the use of learning objects in learning management systems. However, learning environments and learning objects must have been built to the same standards. In this sense, there are several initiatives for e-Learning supported by services oriented architectures and Web services technologies. These initiatives pursue the integration of features that promote interoperability and thereby reusability of educational resources. The goal of this paper is to describe how educational resources can be dealt with as Web services in a learning management system, representing an alternative to learning objects. In this sense, learning Web services are software components that allow the use of educational resources. The employment of learning Web services allows the use and reuse of educational content in different learning environments, and other client applications. These learning Web services can be described, published, discovered and invoked using open standards over an Internet protocol backbone, such as SOAP, XML, WSDL, and HTTP. This can be achieved by extending a Learning Management Systems like Moodle, where integration, presentation, and management of learning Web services may be performed, as described in this paper.

In recent era of cloud computing, web service technology has become the most important and popular technology to generate and provide dynamic web services. The utility computing and on-demand services are the basic characteristics of cloud computing, where any legacy web application can be converted into dynamic web services as per the requirements. Some web services need to be combined with defined business logic or rules to satisfy the customer. Web service composition is the cost-effective way of developing combined services for any web application. Web services are services with standard interfaces that provide specific functionality of application. Web services are usually implemented using Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Web services are combined to make two or more web services communicate with each other to provide combined functionality. To make service oriented architecture effective, services needs to be identified and defined correctly. In this paper, a methodology is defined to identify, implement and combine the web services for an e-learning application. An E-learning application is created by using various web services and combined by specifying certain rules. E-learning is an electronic educational technology where the e-learning portal is implemented using SOA approach. The paper aims at three main objectives: web services creation, composition of web services and handling the exceptions for composition. The four main web services considered for e-learning application are contents, quiz, assignment and forum. Web services are combined using Orchestration and Choreography techniques and compared with the response time of the services execution

Purpose The success of web services involved the adoption of this technology by different service providers through the web, which increased the number of web services, as a result making their discovery a tedious task. The UDDI standard has been proposed for web service publication and discovery. However, it lacks sufficient semantic description in the content of web services, which makes it difficult to find and compose suitable web services during the analysis, search, and matching processes. In addition, few works on semantic web services discovery take into account the user’s profile. The purpose of this paper is to optimize the web services discovery by reducing the search space and increasing the number of relevant services. Design/methodology/approach The authors propose a new approach for the semantic web services discovery based on the mobile agent, user profile and metadata catalog. In the approach, each user can be described by a profile which is represented in two dimensions: personal dimension and preferences dimension. The description of web service is based on two levels: metadata catalog and WSDL. Findings First, the semantic web services discovery reduces the number of relevant services through the application of matching algorithm “semantic match”. The result of this first matching restricts the search space at the level of UDDI registry, which allows the users to have good results for the “functional match”. Second, the use of mobile agents as a communication entity reduces the traffic on the network and the quantity of exchanged information. Finally, the integration of user profile in the service discovery process facilitates the expression of the user needs and makes intelligible the selected service. Originality/value To the best knowledge of the authors, this is the first attempt at implementing the mobile agent technology with the semantic web service technology.

Nowadays, the web service has become the emerging communication technology where the interaction of each user is performed through the World Wide Web. However, the performance of the web service mechanism is degraded due to security flaws that occur throughout the Internet.. The user or service requester may not attain the relevant web service for their requirement. To overcome this problem, the newly developed multi-objective based Cuckoo Search (MCS) algorithm is proposed in this article. Initially, the input query model was built by the query keyword that is provided by the service requester. Then, the given query is matched with the database that hosts the web services that relates to input query. Among the various services, the user has to select the appropriate web service using the proposed algorithm. The MCS algorithm is newly designed by combining the Cuckoo Search algorithm and the QoS parameter based multiple objectives. Additionally, the new mathematical model of fitness is evaluated b...

The web services have emerged as a web based matured and popular technology paradigm. Due to increasing popularity, the reliability assurance and prediction have acquired more attentions to the developers, researchers and service providers. In this paper, the authors propose to design, develop and implement a service oriented prototype research electronic automated teller machine service using Windows Communication Foundation technology to study and predict some reliability aspects of web services. One master service is designed to authenticate a particular user to access services that is acting as a service broker and redirects the query to content service executing agents, acting as a service provider. The system has been implemented using C# programming language, Visual Studio.NET framework, Internet Information Service web server and Microsoft Structured Query Language database server. The authors present here the novel prototype architecture, testing procedures, HTTP transactional status and reliability analysis of the system under massive stress of consumers.

The migration of legacy web applications (LWA) to Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) has become mainstream in the last years due to the architectural flexibility that SOA provides, which allows to easily adapt the existing applications to new requirements. However, these migrations are usually ad-hoc and manually performed leading to tedious and error-prone processes. MigraSOA is an approach to migrate (and modernize) LWA to SOA that makes use of Model-Driven Development techniques to face the complexity of the underlying technologies, web services, business processes definition or executable business processes platforms. In addition to globally introducing MigraSOA, this paper focuses on the alignment of the business processes defined by the company with the underlying web services of the LWA. Moreover, the paper also shows a process to extend the BPMN models in order to keep these models synchronized with the available services.

This paper proposes a context-aware semantic planning graph technique for Web services composition. We first use an ontology based context model for extending Web services descriptions with information about the most suitable context for its use. Then, we transform the composition problem into a semantic context aware graph planning problem to build a set of best composed Web services based on user’s context. The construction of the planning graph is based on semantic context-aware Web service discovery. This allow, for each step of the construction, to add most suitable Web services in terms of semantic compatibility between the services parameters, and their context similarity with the user’s context. In the backward search step, semantic and contextual similarity scores are used to find composed Web services list. Finally, in the ranking step, a score is calculated for each candidate solution and a set of ranked solutions is returned to the user.

Web services have attracted much attention from distributed application designers and developers because of their roles in abstraction and interoperability among heterogeneous software systems, and a growing number of distributed software applications have been published as Web services on the Internet. Faced with the increasing numbers of Web services and service users, researchers in the services computing field have attempted to address a challenging issue, i.e., how to quickly find the suitable ones according to user queries. Many previous studies have been reported towards this direction. In this paper, a novel Web service discovery approach based on topic models is presented. The proposed approach mines common topic groups from the service-topic distribution matrix generated by topic modeling, and the extracted common topic groups can then be leveraged to match user queries to relevant Web services, so as to make a better trade-off between the accuracy of service discovery and the number of candidate Web services. Experiment results conducted on two publicly-available data sets demonstrate that, compared with several widely used approaches, the proposed approach can maintain the performance of service discovery at an elevated level by greatly decreasing the number of candidate Web services, thus leading to faster response time.

Problem: The power & electric outages cause business disruptions that result in economic impacts to cities. A web map service (WMS), as a RESTful API with URL, that makes real-time information of power outage and economic loss estimation accessible and available across the web would be valuable and important for decision makers in smart cities and smart energy utility. Objective: This paper presents a web-based system that is capable of creating real-time WMS. Our system enables geo-enabled applications (such as web mapping, mobile GIS app, operations dashboard) to access, query, and display a web map of real-time outage status and economic loss information associated with outages in the county scale. Method: Our method is based on the Internet of Things (IoT), web services, GIS web services, web mapping, and web GIS (Geographic Information Systems). To implement our system, we used esri ArcGIS for Server, SQL Server Spatial, Amazon Web Services, and C#.NET. The system architecture consists of autonomous computer program, spatial database, GIS Server, cloud computing platform, a WMS, web feature service (WFS). Our insight is in real-time by continuously 1) connecting to web sensors and collecting outage data, 2) connecting to web services for calculating economics loss associated with outages, 4) manipulating (modify, insert, delete) our spatial database over the Internet, 4) publishing a real-time WMS. Result: The system implementation resulted in a back-end server that includes /serves a real-time WMS. A data record includes: name of county, name of state that contains this county, total number of costumers located within the county, total number of costumers without electricity who are located into the county, and total economic losses (modeled as total jobs loss, total GDP loss, and total cost in $) caused by outages for the county. Findings: Real-time WMS created by our system can be used by applications to display and query a web map of electric outage status and their macroeconomic loss in real-time. They provide a decision support tool for disaster emergency management in the energy sector by aiding in prioritization of restoration operations and recovery phase in electric utilities in order to reduce the economic impact of outages. Our system provides an important platform for smart cities, real-time GIS, Internet on Things, map-based crowdsourcing applications, real-time intelligent systems, and for real-time monitoring and analytical applications.

Service-Oriented Computing promotes building applications by consuming and reusing Web Services. However, the selection of adequate Web Services given a client application is still a major challenge. The effort of assessing and adapting candidate services could be overwhelming due to the “impedance” of Web Service interfaces expected by clients versus the actual interfaces of retrieved Web Services. In this work, we present a novel structural-semantic approach to help developers in the retrieval and selection of services from a service registry. The approach is based on a comprehensive structural scheme for service Interface Compatibility analysis, and WordNet as the semantic support to assess identifiers of operations and parameters. We also empirically analyze, compare and contrast the performance of three service selection methods: a pure structural approach, a pure semantic approach, and the structural-semantic (hybrid) approach proposed in this work. The experimental analysis was performed with two data-sets of real-world Web Services and a service discovery support already published in the literature. Results show that our hybrid service selection approach improved effectiveness in terms of retrievability of Web Services compared to the other approaches. Fil: Garriga, Martín. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional del Comahue. Facultad de Informatica; Argentina Fil: de Renzis, Alan Ismael. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional del Comahue. Facultad de Informatica; Argentina Fil: Lizarralde, Ignacio. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Tandil. Instituto Superior de Ingeniería del Software. Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Instituto Superior de Ingeniería del Software; Argentina Fil: Flores, Andrés Pablo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional del Comahue. Facultad de Informatica; Argentina Fil: Mateos Diaz, Cristian Maximiliano. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Tandil. Instituto Superior de Ingeniería del Software. Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Instituto Superior de Ingeniería del Software; Argentina Fil: Cechich, Susana Alejandra. Universidad Nacional del Comahue. Facultad de Informatica; Argentina Fil: Zunino Suarez, Alejandro Octavio. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Tandil. Instituto Superior de Ingeniería del Software. Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Instituto Superior de Ingeniería del Software; Argentina

The usage of Web services has recently increased. Therefore, it is important to select right type of Web services at the project design stage. The most common implementations are based on SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) and REST (Representational State Transfer Protocol) styles. Maintainability of REST and SOAP Web services has become an important issue as popularity of Web services is increasing. Choice of the right approach is not an easy decision since it is influenced by development requirements and maintenance considerations. In the present research, we present the comparison of SOAP and REST based Web services using software evaluation metrics. To achieve this aim, a systematic literature review will be made to compare REST and SOAP Web services in terms of the software evaluation metrics.

In the service oriented paradigm, a software solution is a composition of individual web services. These web services, also called partner services, contribute not only to realize the functional capabilities of the software solution but also determine its Quality of Service (QoS). A partner web service operates in a dynamic environment, and hence is vulnerable to failures, or suffers from QoS degradation. The failure of a partner web service compromises QoS of service based solution. Therefore, a research challenge arises as to how to manage web services which suddenly disappear at the time of execution or stop performing as expected. Several solutions exist for run time monitoring of the partner web services so that when QoS values of some of them degrade, the software solution can be adapted and executed using alternative web services with better QoS. But these solutions are confined either to client side or to provider side. In this paper, we propose a solution which is distributed between the clients and the service providers. It is a software agent based framework that prevents invocation of partner web services with degraded QoS. The experimental results show the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed solution in a dynamic runtime environment.

Many resources provided on the Web are part of sets of resources that are provided in a context that is managed by one particular service provider. Often, these sets of resources are referred to as "Web Services" or "Web APIs". This specification defines link relations for representing relationships from those resources to ones that provide documentation, descriptions, or metadata for these Web services. Documentation is primarily intended for human consumers, whereas descriptions are primarily intended for automated consumers; metadata is supposed to be information about a service's context. It also defines a link relation to identify status resources that are used to represent operational information about service status.

In this chapter, I start the process of creating an HTTP web service that the Angular application can use to request data from ASP.NET Core MVC. This process is not as simple as it might be because of the way that different features interact, both in the MVC and Angular parts of the application, but the result is a solid foundation for accessing data that I build on in Chapter 6 to support a complete set of data operations.

Service-oriented architecture has greatly influenced web-based development. However, the dream of system integration and automatic service discovery has only been partially fulfilled. Discovery within poorly defined web services has raised several concerns about the visionary promise of service-oriented computing, most notably in terms of the ability to understand and assemble application functionality from loosely coupled services. Well-developed Web Service interfaces enable service consumers to choose and bind to valid and well-understood web service interfaces. The aim of this paper is to propose a new approach that allows the utilization of a large number of currently published web services that lack proper descriptions and that therefore are not considered during the traditional search and discovery process. The author develops a new metric for web service clarity to enhance quality control during the registration and operation phases. The results prove that using the proposed approach, the discovery process can be significantly enhanced.

During the last decade, software engineering community has witnessed the emerging of SOA architecture, where Web services play a crucial role. It prompts the concept of Web Service Composition (WSC). Even though interesting, this issue posed some remarkable challenges, one of which is constraint handling. To be more precise, one needs to ensure that the composite Web service fulfills, at the same time, many constraints, including functional constraints, Quality of Service (QoS), and the execution order of the component services, or temporal relations. Those constraints are of different natures, thus finding an efficient verification on all kinds of constraints during the composition process is by no means a trivial task. Backed by a solid foundation of temporal logic, model checking (MC) is a suitable approach to handle this issue. However, MC-based approach suffers from the infamous problem of state-space explosion, making it limited when applied to real-life situations. The work in this paper addresses the problem by proposing various approaches for handling the state-space exploration, including (i) an introduction of an LTS-based model known as LTS4WS, which can avoid generating full schema of Web service composition and allow on-the-fly verification on the state space; (ii) heuristics strategies to find the best potential composition, and (iii) a bitwise-based indexing mechanism for fast location of suitable Web services. All of those approaches are unified in a single tool, known as WSCOVER. As a result, a significant improvement of performance has been made, especially as compared with the other existing works in the same field.

During the last few years, the REST architectural style has drastically changed the way web services are developed. Due to its transparent resource-oriented model, the RESTful paradigm has been incorporated into several development frameworks that allow rapid development and aspire to automate parts of the development process. However, most of the frameworks lack automation of essential web service functionality, such as authentication or database searching, while the end product is usually not fully compliant to REST. Furthermore, most frameworks rely heavily on domain specific modeling and require developers to be familiar with the employed modeling technologies. In this paper, we present a Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) engine that supports fast design and implementation of web services with advanced functionality. Our engine provides a front-end interface that allows developers to design their envisioned system through software requirements in multimodal formats. Input in the form of textual requirements and graphical storyboards is analyzed using natural language processing techniques and semantics, to semi-automatically construct the input model for the MDE engine. The engine subsequently applies model-to-model transformations to produce a RESTful, ready-to-deploy web service. The procedure is traceable, ensuring that changes in software requirements propagate to the underlying software artefacts and models. Upon assessing our methodology through a case study and measuring the effort reduction of using our tools, we conclude that our system can be effective for the fast design and implementation of web services, while it allows easy wrapping of services that have been engineered with traditional methods to the MDE realm.

Since many service providers are providing similar web services, finding an accurate web service based on user preferences is becoming a challenging task. Therefore, enhancing web service discovery (WSD) method will improve the searching performance. In this paper, we firstly discuss and review some existing web service discovery approaches and identify their limitations. Subsequently, we propose a web service discovery method for cloud-based mobile application by using multi-level clustering technique to improve performance by reducing the searching scope. Our web service discovery architecture is able to increase the discoverability of more accurate web services based on user's preferences. Meanwhile, user preference Quality of Services (QoS) attributes are also used for ranking procedure to allow user to decide the quality of the mobile application. The experimental results show that our approach is able to increase the searching performance and provide a reliable list of selection for users.

Software measures play an eminent role in the evaluation of quality of a Web-based application. Increased dependency on Web-based applications enhanced the need to evaluate Web quality parameters. A poor quality Web application fails to fulfill customer’s implicit and explicit requirements resulting in poor customer acceptance. Many frameworks have so far been proposed for measurement of quality parameters of Web-based applications but they lack in one way or other. Most of the existing frameworks deal with narrow range of quality characteristics or is limited to a specific Web-based application perspective. Based on the limitations of the current frameworks, this paper proposes a new generic conceptual object-oriented framework multi-attribute quality model which scientifically categorize quality characteristics and its sub-characteristics based on different perspectives and usage of Web applications. The main concept of the newly proposed framework is to analyze and expand the previously established quality characteristics in Web-based applications. The approach is chosen due to the diverse and impulsive nature of the Web applications. For designing the framework ISO/IEC 9126 framework is used as reference.

The last decade has witnessed a tremendous growth of web services as a major technology for sharing data, computing resources, and programs on the web. With the increasing adoption and presence of web services, design of novel approaches for effective web service recommendation to satisfy users’ potential requirements has become of paramount importance. Existing web service recommendation approaches mainly focus on predicting missing QoS values of web service candidates which are interesting to a user using collaborative filtering approach, content-based approach, or their hybrid. These recommendation approaches assume that recommended web services are independent to each other, which sometimes may not be true. As a result, many similar or redundant web services may exist in a recommendation list. In this paper, we propose a novel web service recommendation approach incorporating a user's potential QoS preferences and diversity feature of user interests on web services. User's interests and QoS preferences on web services are first mined by exploring the web service usage history. Then we compute scores of web service candidates by measuring their relevance with historical and potential user interests, and their QoS utility. We also construct a web service graph based on the functional similarity between web services. Finally, we present an innovative diversity-aware web service ranking algorithm to rank the web service candidates based on their scores, and diversity degrees derived from the web service graph. Extensive experiments are conducted based on a real world web service dataset, indicating that our proposed web service recommendation approach significantly improves the quality of the recommendation results compared with existing methods.

By arranging multiple existing web services into workflows to create value-added services, automatic web service composition has received much attention in service-oriented computing. A large number of methods have been proposed for it although most of them are merely based on the matching of input-output parameters of services. Besides these parameters, some other elements can affect the execution of services and their composition, such as the preconditions and service execution results. In particular, the execution effects of some services are often uncertain because of the complex and dynamically changing application environments in the real world, and this can cause the emergence of nondeterministic choices in the workflows of composite services. However, the previous methods for automatic service composition mainly rely on sequential structures, which make them difficult to take into account uncertain effects during service composition. In this paper, Graphplan is employed and extended to tackle this problem. In order to model services with uncertain effects, we first extend the original form of Graphplan. Then, we propose a novel approach that can introduce branch structures into composite solutions to cope with such uncertainty in the service composition process. Extensive experiments are performed to evaluate and analyze the proposed methodology.

In recent years, it has been made possible to compose exiting services when a user's request cannot be satisfied by a single web service. Web service composition is faced with several challenges among which is the rapid growth in the number of available web services leading to increased number of web services offering the same functionalities. The difference between similar services is Quality of Service (QoS) consisting of various non-functional factors such as execution time, availability, security, etc. As a result, multiple choices are possible in making a composition plan. Among numerous plans, selecting a composition plan that fulfills customer's requirements has become an important and time-consuming problem. In this paper, the researchers propose a semi-heuristic genetic algorithm that is a combination of both a heuristic method and the genetic algorithm. This heuristic method changes chromosomes based on unsatisfied constraints. Research findings show that the proposed method can be applied to find a composition plan that satisfies user's requirements more efficiently than other methods.

Under the circumstances of user’s varied requirement, lots of web services are available and the number is increasing rapidly. In order to change service consumers into service providers with their own data and give them autonomous right, we designed a smart service computing platform which provides basic environment and infrastructure. As a platform, we cannot only make full use of our data resources through providing customized web service to target people, but also let users construct their own web services with their own data. Furthermore, combining the services and improving our efficiency of software development is our another main purpose. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a smart service computing platform to help users to publish their own web services and then combine the services into new ones with new functions.

Web services are reusable software components available across the web. These web services fulfill the requirements of the consumers in the form of business process requirements, software and technical requirements and other personal requirements. In order to achieve BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) process's QoS (Quality of Service) global optimization on dynamic Web service composition, the traditional dynamic Web service invocation model of BPEL process is enhanced and the service selection, refining and fault tolerance is added. Meanwhile, by improving the grading method, the paper designs and realizes the algorithm, whose result is the global optimization on QoS under the constraints. Through the comparison, the conclusion is that the optimal solution can be found more quickly by the improved algorithms and the business process's QoS global optimization under the constraints can be achieved by the modified model. This paper aims to determine a subset of web services from the candidate services to be invoked at run-time so as to successfully and efficiently orchestrate a composite web service.