A Web service substitution method based on service cluster nets

作者:Du, YuYue; Gai, JunJing; Zhou, MengChu*
来源:Enterprise Information Systems, 2017, 11(10): 1535-1551.
DOI:10.1080/17517575.2016.1172347

摘要

Service substitution is an important research topic in the fields of Web services and service-oriented computing. This work presents a novel method to analyse and substitute Web services. A new concept, called a Service Cluster Net Unit, is proposed based on Web service clusters. A service cluster is converted into a Service Cluster Net Unit. Then it is used to analyse whether the services in the cluster can satisfy some service requests. Meanwhile, the substitution methods of an atomic service and a composite service are proposed. The correctness of the proposed method is proved, and the effectiveness is shown and compared with the state-of-the-art method via an experiment. It can be readily applied to e-commerce service substitution to meet the business automation needs.