A service composition evolution method that combines deep clustering and a service requirement context model.

Service composition can quickly build new value-added composite services by combining existing Web services. However, with the complex and changeable Internet environment, composite services need to effectively understand and manage requirements in a flexible and adaptive manner, and also be able to quickly and proactively provide high-quality services through a series of dynamic evolution models. In response to these challenges, in this study, we propose a service composition evolution method that can adaptively select the appropriate service to improve user satisfaction and service quality. First, we introduce a deep clustering method based on the topic model and auto-encoder, which considers the function description documents and parameter information of the services to reduce the search space of the candidate services. Furthermore, we describe a requirement-oriented context-sensitive task model to integrate functional and non-functional user requirements by connecting the context of Web subtasks. Then, we present a dynamic service matching method with QoS threshold judgement to filter and rank the services. We applied the proposed evolution method to the datasets of real-world Web services and measured the performance using standard measurement metrics. The prototype implementation and results of simulation experiments verified the effectiveness of each part of our method. • A novel service composition evolution method is proposed. • A deep clustering method is presented to implement the service clustering process. • RCT model and various evolutionary types are used to satisfy user requirements. • Simulation experiments on prototype system show the effectiveness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]