Providing Ontology-Based Privacy-Aware Data Access Through Web Services and Service Composition

Author(s):  
Sven Hartmann ◽  
Hui Ma ◽  
Panrawee Vechsamutvaree
2008 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shahram Dustdar ◽  
Mike P. Papazoglou

SummaryIn this overview paper, we discuss the basic principles underlying service-oriented computing in general, and (Web) services in particular. We discuss the important differences between (Web) services and Web applications and other models in Internet computing. Finally, we discuss where we see the future research challenges in the area of service composition.


2015 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 711-737 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Paulraj ◽  
S. Swamynathan ◽  
Daniel Chandran ◽  
K. Balasubadra ◽  
M. Vigilson Prem

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-70
Author(s):  
Laishram Jenny Chanu ◽  
◽  
Arnab Paul ◽  

Lots of Web Services are available which differ in their QoS values but can perform a similar task. Discovery mechanism selects the best Web Service according to their QoS values and functional attributes. Cases arise, where the discovery mechanism fails, as a user’s complex query cannot be satisfied by a single Web Service. This can be solved by Web Service composition where multiple Web Services are combined to give a composite Web Service which meet user’s complex query. Our work is mainly focused on composition of Web Services that efficiently meets the user’s query. Different algorithms have been discussed and used by different researchers in this field. One of the most blooming topics is the use of evolutionary algorithms in optimization problems. In our work, we have chosen Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm approach to discover the best efficient composition. Then, Weight Improved Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm is used to improve the results which were found to be quite satisfying and efficient.


Author(s):  
Mihai Horia Zaharia

Highly developed economies are based on the knowledge society. A variety of software tools are used in almost every aspect of human life. Service-oriented architectures are limited to corporate-related business solutions. This chapter proposes a novel approach aimed to overcome the differences between real life services and software services. Using the design approaches for the current service-oriented architecture, a solution that can be implemented in open source systems has been proposed. As a result, a new approach to creating an agent for service composition is introduced. The agent itself is created by service composition too. The proposed approach might facilitate the research and development of Web services, service-oriented architectures, and intelligent agents.


IoT scenarios involve both smart devices hosting web services and very simple devices with external web services. Without unified access to these types of devices, the construction of IoT service systems would be cumbersome. The basic principle of this chapter is the integration of distributed events into SOA. The data access capability of physical entities is first separated from their actuation capability, which acts as a foundation for ultra-scale and elastic IoT applications. Then, a distributed event-based IoT service platform is established to support the creation of IoT services and allow the hiding of service access complexity, where the IoT services are event-driven; the design goals are impedance matching between service computation and event communication. The coordination logic of an IoT service system is extracted as an event composition that supports the distributed execution of the system and offers scalability. Finally, an application is implemented on the platform to demonstrate its effectiveness and applicability.


Author(s):  
Manuel Palomo-Duarte

Web services are changing software development thanks to their loosely coupled nature and simple adoption. They can be easily composed to create new more powerful services, allowing for large programming systems. Verification and validation techniques try to find defects in a program to minimize losses that its malfunction could cause. Although many different approaches have been developed for “traditional” program testing, none of them have proven definitive. The problem is even more challenging for new paradigms like web services and web service compositions, because of their dynamic nature and uncommon web service-specific instructions. This chapter surveys the different approaches to web service and web service composition verification and validation, paying special attention to automation. When no tools are available for a given technique, academic efforts are discussed, and challenges are presented.


2011 ◽  
pp. 739-758 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seog-Chan Oh ◽  
Dongwon Lee

In this article, a novel benchmark toolkit, WSBen, for testing web services discovery and composition algorithms is presented. The WSBen includes: (1) a collection of synthetically generated web services files in WSDL format with diverse data and model characteristics; (2) queries for testing discovery and composition algorithms; (3) auxiliary files to do statistical analysis on the WSDL test sets; (4) converted WSDL test sets that conventional AI planners can read; and (5) a graphical interface to control all these behaviors. Users can finetune the generated WSDL test files by varying underlying network models. To illustrate the application of the WSBen, in addition, we present case studies from three domains: (1) web service composition; (2) AI planning; and (3) the laws of networks in Physics community. It is our hope that WSBen will provide useful insights in evaluating the performance of web services discovery and composition algorithms. The WSBen toolkit is available at: http://pike.psu.edu/sw/wsben/.


Author(s):  
Arion de Campos Jr. ◽  
Aurora T. R. Pozo ◽  
Silvia R. Vergilio

The Web service composition refers to the aggregation of Web services to meet customers' needs in the construction of complex applications. The selection among a large number of Web services that provide the desired functionalities for the composition is generally driven by QoS (Quality of Service) attributes, and formulated as a constrained multi-objective optimization problem. However, many equally important QoS attributes exist and in this situation the performance of the multi-objective algorithms can be degraded. To deal properly with this problem we investigate in this chapter a solution based in many-objective optimization algorithms. We conduct an empirical analysis to measure the performance of the proposed solution with the following preference relations: Controlling the Dominance Area of Solutions, Maximum Ranking and Average Ranking. These preference relations are implemented with NSGA-II using five objectives. A set of performance measures is used to investigate how these techniques affect convergence and diversity of the search in the WSC context.


Author(s):  
Rekha Bhatia ◽  
Manpreet Singh Gujral

Due to the ever increasing number of web services available through the Internet, the privacy as a fundamental human right is endangered. Informed consent and collection of information are two important aspects while interacting on the Internet through web services. The ease of data access and the ready availability of it through Internet, made it easier for interested parties to intrude into the individual's privacy in unprecedented ways. The regulatory and technical solutions adopted to curb this have achieved only a limited success. The main culprits in this regard are the incompatibilities in the regulatory measures and standards. This research work focuses on privacy preserving access control for sharing sensitive information in the arena of web services, provides some recent outlooks towards the critical need of privacy aware access control technologies and a comprehensive review of the existing work in this arena. Besides, a novel framework for privacy aware access to web services is also provided.


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