Privacy-Aware Web Service Composition and Ranking

2015 ◽  
pp. 1653-1675
Author(s):  
Elisa Costante ◽  
Federica Paci ◽  
Nicola Zannone
Keyword(s):  
Web Service ◽  
Service Composition ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Service Selection ◽  
Future Internet ◽  
Web Service Composition ◽  
Privacy Requirements ◽  
Privacy Preferences ◽  
Privacy Breaches ◽  
Selection Of

Service selection is a key issue in the Future Internet, where applications are built by composing services and content offered by different service providers. Most existing service selection schemas only focus on QoS properties of services such as throughput, latency and response time, or on their trust and reputation level. By contrast, the risk of privacy breaches arising from the selection of component services whose privacy policy is not compliant with customers' privacy preferences is largely ignored. In this paper, the authors propose a novel privacy-preserving Web service composition and selection approach which (i) makes it possible to verify the compliance between users' privacy requirements and providers' privacy policies and (ii) ranks the composite Web services with respect to the privacy level they offer. The authors illustrate their approach using an eCommerce Web service as an example of service composition. Moreover, the authors present a possible Java-based implementation of the proposed approach and present an extension to WS-Policy standard to specify privacy related assertions.

Privacy-Aware Web Service Composition and Ranking

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisa Costante ◽  
Federica Paci ◽  
Nicola Zannone
Keyword(s):  
Web Service ◽  
Service Composition ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Service Selection ◽  
Future Internet ◽  
Web Service Composition ◽  
Privacy Preferences ◽  
Privacy Breaches ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Privacy Level

Service selection is a key issue in the Future Internet, where applications are built by composing services and content offered by different service providers. Most existing service selection schemas only focus on QoS properties of services such as throughput, latency and response time, or on their trust and reputation level. By contrast, the risk of privacy breaches arising from the selection of component services whose privacy policy is not compliant with customers’ privacy preferences is largely ignored. In this paper, the authors propose a novel privacy-preserving Web service composition and selection approach which (i) makes it possible to verify the compliance between users’ privacy requirements and providers’ privacy policies and (ii) ranks the composite Web services with respect to the privacy level they offer. The authors illustrate their approach using an eCommerce Web service as an example of service composition. Moreover, the authors present a possible Java-based implementation of the proposed approach and present an extension to WS-Policy standard to specify privacy related assertions.

A Novel Physics Inspired Approach for Web Service Composition

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanveer Ahmed ◽  
Abhishek Srivastava
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
Web Service ◽  
Service Composition ◽  
Service Oriented Architecture ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Web Service Composition ◽  
Heterogeneous Services ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Service Consumer ◽  
Selection Of

Service oriented architecture has revolutionized the way a traditional business process is executed. The success of this architecture is Indue to the composition of multiple heterogeneous services at runtime. Web service composition is a mechanism where several web services are combined at runtime to build a complex application for a user. It is one of the most sought after processes in the context of semantic web. But, composition of web services at runtime is a difficult task owing to the availability of multiple service providers offering the same functionality. The process if exasperated by due conflicting preferences of a service consumer. In this paper, the authors address the issue of selecting a service based on Quality of Service (QoS) attributes. They utilize concepts customized from physics to create an environment that facilitates the selection of a best service from the set of similar services. The technique not only facilitates the selection of the service with the best QoS attributes, but distributes the load among expeditiously. Here in this paper, the authors concentrate on minimizing and equitably balancing the waiting time for a user. They conduct in silico experiments on multiple workflows to demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed technique to balance load efficiently among similar service offerings.

An Agent Architecture for Qos-Based Web Service Composition Using the Skyline Algorithm

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 179 ◽  
Author(s):  
El-Alami Ayoub ◽  
Hair Abdellatif
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
Web Service ◽  
Service Composition ◽  
Service Selection ◽  
Web Service Composition ◽  
Web Service Selection ◽  
Concrete Service ◽  
The Web ◽  
Selection Of

<p>Web service composition is a concept based on the built of an abstract process, by combining multiple existing class instances, where during the execution, each service class is replaced by a concrete service, selected from several web service candidates. This approach has as an advantage generating flexible and low coupling applications, based on its conception on many elementary modules available on the web. The process of service selection during the composition is based on several axes, one of these axes is the QoS-based web service selection. The Qos or Quality of Service represent a set of parameters that characterize the non-functional web service aspect (execution time, cost, etc...). The composition of web services based on Qos, is the process which allows the selection of the web services that fulfill the user need, based on its qualities. Selected services should optimize the global QoS of the composed process, while satisfying all the constraints specified by the client in all QoS parameters. In this paper, we propose an approach based on the concept of agent system and Skyline approach to effectively select services for composition, and reducing the number of candidate services to be generated and considered in treatment. To evaluate our approach experimentally, we use a several random datasets of services with random values of qualities.</p>

scholarly journals Mutation-Based Harmony Search Algorithm for Hybrid Testing of Web Service Composition

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eckwijai Maythaisong ◽  
Wararat Songpan
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
Web Service ◽  
Service Composition ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Search Algorithm ◽  
Harmony Search ◽  
Web Service Composition ◽  
Hybrid Testing ◽  
Business Plans ◽  
Business Goals

Web service composition is a method of developing a new web service from an existing one based on business goals. Web services selected for composition should provide accurate operational results and reliable applications. However, most alternative service providers have not yet fulfilled users’ needs in terms of services and processes. Service providers, in fact, have focused on enhancing nonfunctional attributes, such as efficiencies of time, cost, and availability, which still face limitations. Furthermore, it remains advantageous to compose services and suitably plan them around business plans. Thus, this study introduces hybrid testing using a combination of the functional and nonfunctional testing approaches. The former was used to design a test case through the equivalence class partitioning technique, and the latter was used to select suitable services for the test results. We find defects and appropriate solutions for combining services based on business requirements. The mutation-based harmony search (MBHS) algorithm is proposed to select web services and to compose with minimum defects. The results of this study reveal that MBHS can support a combination of various services more efficiently and dramatically than other metaheuristic methodologies. Additionally, it helps find appropriate solutions to compose services based on business plans.

scholarly journals A QoS-Oriented Novel Optimization Schemes for Web Service Composition for Improved Healthcare

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 3442-3447
Keyword(s):  
Web Service ◽  
Service Composition ◽  
Target Location ◽  
Optimal Solution ◽  
Service Selection ◽  
Web Service Composition ◽  
Qos Prediction ◽  
Web Service Selection ◽  
Evidenced Based ◽  
Optimization Schemes

Due to massive increase in Web service in order to provide users an improved service it is necessary to develop a dynamic approach based on multi constraint Quality-of-Service (QoS) driven web service composition model to recommend suitable services to intended users is a big challenge. QoS plays a prominent role in selecting a Web Service. QoS is mainly determined by several non-functional parameters like availability, reliability, robustness, integrity, accessibility, interoperability, accuracy and security. It is evidenced based on experimentation that the proposed Improved Rider Optimization scheme achieves near optimal solution where group of riders racing towards a target location and attains adaptability and scalability by making a more confident web service selection with QoS prediction.

scholarly journals Web service composition ranking based on QoS and social network analysis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alireza Dehghani
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Analysis ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Web Service ◽  
Service Composition ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Web Service Composition ◽  
Rank Score ◽  
Higher Weights ◽  
Composition Process

Web service composition refers to the aggregation of web services for producing composite solutions in order to satisfy user requirements which can't be satisfied by atomic services. It is an essential challenge to find the most reliable and trustable complex services in each composition process. Many of current composition approaches use QoS (Quality of Service) values to select among different composition candidates. However, QoS values can't be trusted all the time since some service providers may promote their services by publishing wrong QoS values. Social network analysis techniques such as PageRank have been used successfully in finding the trustable and authoritative web resources. We believe that these techniques can also be used to improve the service composition process. We have developed a modified PageRank algorithm called Service Rank in order to find the importance level of each service in a composition based on its connectivity and invocation history. This can be accomplished by assigning higher weights to links which have more number of invocations, more up-to-date invocation time and contract signing time, and longer contract durations. Eventually the Service Rank score will be combined with the QoS score for composition ranking. Preliminary results from our experiments have proved the effectiveness of this method. As a consequence users can be more satisfied with the service composition result.

Quality-of-Service Based Web Service Composition and Execution Framework

2014 ◽  
pp. 74-93
Author(s):  
Bassam Al Shargabi ◽  
Osama Al-haj Hassan ◽  
Alia Sabri ◽  
Asim El Sheikh
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Service ◽  
Web Services ◽  
Web Service ◽  
Service Composition ◽  
Service Selection ◽  
Web Service Composition ◽  
Web Service Selection ◽  
Selection Decisions ◽  
Uddi Registry

Software is gradually becoming more built by composing web services to support enterprise applications integration; thus, making the process of composing web services a significant topic. The Quality of Service (QoS) in web service composition plays a crucial role. As such, it is important to guarantee, monitor, and enforce QoS and ability to handle failures during execution. Therefore, an urgent need exists for a dynamic Web Service Composition and Execution (WSCE) framework based on QoS constraints. A WSCE broker is designed to maintain the following function: intelligent web service selection decisions based on local QoS for individual web service or global QoS based selection for composed web services, execution tracking, and adaptation. A QoS certifier controlled by the UDDI registry is proposed to verify the claimed QoS attributes. The authors evaluate the composition plan along with performance time analysis.

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