Hybridizing Artificial Bee Colony with Bat Algorithm for Web Service Composition

In the Internet of Things(IoT),the users have complex needs,and the Web Service Composition(WSC)was introduced to address these needs.The WSC’s main objective is to search for the optimal combination of web services in response to the user needs and the level of Quality of Services(QoS)constraints.The challenge of this problem is the huge number of web services that achieve similar functionality with different levels of QoS constraints.In this paper,we introduce an extension of our previous works on the Artificial Bee Colony(ABC)and Bat Algorithm(BA).A new hybrid algorithm was proposed between the ABC and BA to achieve a better tradeoff between local exploitation and global search.The bat agent is used to improve the solution of exhausted bees after a threshold(limits),and also an Elitist Strategy(ES)is added to BA to increase the convergence rate.The performance and convergence behavior of the proposed hybrid algorithm was tested using extensive comparative experiments with current state-ofthe-art nature-inspired algorithms on 12 benchmark datasets using three evaluation criteria(average fitness values,best fitness values,and execution time)that were measured for 30 different runs.These datasets are created from real-world datasets and artificially to form different scale sizes of WSC datasets.The results show that the proposed algorithm enhances the search performance and convergence rate on finding the near-optimal web services combination compared to competitors.TheWilcoxon signed-rank significant test is usedwhere the proposed algorithm results significantly differ fromother algorithms on 100%of datasets.

Neighborhood Search Based Improved Bat Algorithm for Web Service Composition

Web services are provided as reusable software components in the services-oriented architecture.More complicated composite services can be combined from these components to satisfy the user requirements represented as a workflow with specified Quality of Service(QoS)limitations.The workflow consists of tasks where many services can be considered for each task.Searching for optimal services combination and optimizing the overall QoS limitations is a Non-deterministic Polynomial(NP)-hard problem.This work focuses on the Web Service Composition(WSC)problem and proposes a new service composition algorithm based on the micro-bats behavior while hunting the prey.The proposed algorithm determines the optimal combination of the web services to satisfy the complex user needs.It also addresses the Bat Algorithm(BA)shortcomings,such as the tradeoff among exploration and exploitation searching mechanisms,local optima,and convergence rate.The proposed enhancement includes a developed cooperative and adaptive population initialization mechanism.An elitist mechanism is utilized to address the BA convergence rate.The tradeoff between exploration and exploitation is handled through a neighborhood search mechanism.Several benchmark datasets are selected to evaluate the proposed bat algorithm’s performance.The simulation results are estimated using the average fitness value,the standard deviation of the fitness value,and an average of the execution time and compared with four bat-inspired algorithms.It is observed from the simulation results that introduced enhancement obtains significant results.

Business domain oriented AI planning for web service composition

In order to improve the effectiveness of the artificial intelligence （AI） planning based web service composition problem, a business domain oriented AI planning algorithm for web service composition is introduced. The algorithm uses the proposed business relation model to minimize the searching space and uses the proposed goal distance as a heuristic rule. Compared with other algorithms tackling web service composition such as AI planning, the proposed algorithm focuses not only on how to convert the web service composition problem to the AI planning problem, but also exerts its effort on how to apply the business feature of web service composition into planning in order to improve the effectiveness. The experiment shows the better performance of the proposed algorithm.

MAS-based dynamic web service composition formal model

Applying dynamic web services composition is one of the important schemas for solving service-oriented architecture （SOA）and service-oriented computing（SOC）.For implementing dynamic web services composition,the multi agent system （MAS）is applied to web services composition.First, the essentials of the MAS and web services composition are analyzed and their relationship is discussed.Secondly, an MAS-based architecture is designed for dynamic web services composition,and it is named as CSMWC.A Jade tool is used to implement the major components.The architecture can primarily implement syntactic level dynamic web services composition,and it gives a basis for semantic level dynamic web services composition.For specifying the correctness of the architecture,by using pi-calculus,the architecture of the MAS is formally described,and its dynamic properties and adaptability are reasoned.Finally,it demonstrates the idea proposed by the Pi4SOA tool.

Reachability analysis of web service compositions via NWA

In order to improve the design and implementation quality of web service compositions,formal methods are used to model them and certain properties are verified.WCFA （web service interface control flow automata）is used to model web services,especially the control flow and possible interactions with other web services.A web service composition consists of a set of interacting WCFA.The global behavior of web service compositions is captured by NWA（nested word automata）.A variation of the depth-first search algorithm is used to transform a set of WCFA into an NWA.State formulae and call stacks at each node of NWA are computed by a path-sensitive reachability analysis.Safety properties,call stack inspection properties and pre/post-conditions of service invocations are described by assertions.Then verification of these assertions is carried out by an automated SAT tool.

A Formal Model for BPEL4WS Description of Web Service Composition

Communicating Sequential Processes （CSP） is a kind of process algebra, which is suitable for modeling and verifying Web service composition. This paper describes how to model Web service composition with CSP. A set of rules for translating composition constructor of Business Process Execution Language for Web Services （BPEL4WS） to CSP notations is defined. According to the rules that have been defined, the corresponding translation algorithm is designed and illustrated with examples . The methods for model checking, model verification and model simulation are also introduced.

A colored Petri net-based model for web service composition

In this paper, a model based colored Petri net （CPN） to provide semantic support for web service composition is proposed, and the reliability and maintainability of composite services are improved. The composite constructs in the model are sequence, concurrent, choice, loop and replace. The web service is formally defined by a CPN. A closed composing algebra is defined to obtain a framework which enables declarative composition of web services. Availability, confidentiality, and integrity of composite service are analyzed within the framework of the model based CPN.

Hybrid Metaheuristics Web Service Composition Model for QoS Aware Services

Recent advancements in cloud computing(CC)technologies signified that several distinct web services are presently developed and exist at the cloud data centre.Currently,web service composition gains maximum attention among researchers due to its significance in real-time applications.Quality of Service(QoS)aware service composition concerned regarding the election of candidate services with the maximization of the whole QoS.But these models have failed to handle the uncertainties of QoS.The resulting QoS of composite service identified by the clients become unstable and subject to risks of failing composition by end-users.On the other hand,trip planning is an essential technique in supporting digital map services.It aims to determine a set of location based services(LBS)which cover all client intended activities quantified in the query.But the available web service composition solutions do not consider the complicated spatio-temporal features.For resolving this issue,this study develops a new hybridization of the firefly optimization algorithm with fuzzy logic based web service composition model(F3L-WSCM)in a cloud environment for location awareness.The presented F3L-WSCM model involves a discovery module which enables the client to provide a query related to trip planning such as flight booking,hotels,car rentals,etc.At the next stage,the firefly algorithm is applied to generate composition plans to minimize the number of composition plans.Followed by,the fuzzy subtractive clustering(FSC)will select the best composition plan from the available composite plans.Besides,the presented F3L-WSCM model involves four input QoS parameters namely service cost,service availability,service response time,and user rating.An extensive experimental analysis takes place on CloudSim tool and exhibit the superior performance of the presented F3L-WSCM model in terms of accuracy,execution time,and efficiency.

Fishery Web Service Composition Method Based on Ontology

Various fishery information systems have been developed in different times and on different platforms. Wet） service application composition is crucial in the sharing and integration of fishery data and information. In the present paper, a heuristic web service composition method based on fishery ontology is presented, and the proposed web services are described. Ontology reasoning capability was applied to generate a service composition graph. The heuristic function was introduced to reduce the searching space. The experimental results show that the algorithm used considers the services semantic similarity and adiusts web service composition plan by dynamically relying on the empirical data.

Exploiting structural similarity of log files in fault diagnosis for Web service composition

With increasing deployment of Web services, the research on the dependability and availability of Web service composition becomes more and more active. Since unexpected faults of Web service composition may occur in different levels at runtime, log analysis as a typical data- driven approach for fault diagnosis is more applicable and scalable in various architectures. Considering the trend that more and more service logs are represented using XML or JSON format which has good flexibility and interoperability, fault classification problem of semi-structured logs is considered as a challenging issue in this area. However, most existing approaches focus on the log content analysis but ignore the structural information and lead to poor performance. To improve the accuracy of fault classification, we exploit structural similarity of log files and propose a similarity based Bayesian learning approach for semi-structured logs in this paper. Our solution estimates degrees of similarity among structural elements from heterogeneous log data, constructs combined Bayesian network （CBN）, uses similarity based learning algorithm to compute probabilities in CBN, and classifies test log data into most probable fault categories based on the generated CBN. Experimental results show that our approach outperforms other learning approaches on structural log datasets.

Artificial Bee Colony with Cuckoo Search for Solving Service Composition

In recent years,cloud computing has provided a Software As A Service(SaaS)platform where the software can be reused and applied to fulfill compli-cated user demands according to specific Quality of Services(QoS)constraints.The user requirements are formulated as a workflow consisting of a set of tasks.However,many services may satisfy the functionality of each task;thus,searching for the composition of the optimal service while maximizing the QoS is formulated as an NP-hard problem.This work will introduce a hybrid Artificial Bee Colony(ABC)with a Cuckoo Search(CS)algorithm to untangle service composition problem.The ABC is a well-known metaheuristic algorithm that can be applied when dealing with different NP-hard problems with an outstanding record of performance.However,the ABC suffers from a slow convergence problem.Therefore,the CS is used to overcome the ABC’s limitations by allowing the abandoned bees to enhance their search and override the local optimum.The proposed hybrid algorithm has been tested on 19 datasets and then compared with two standard algorithms(ABC and CS)and three state-of-the-art swarm-based composition algorithms.In addition,extensive parameter study experiments were conducted to set up the proposed algorithm’s parameters.The results indicate that the proposed algorithm outperforms the standard algorithms in the three comparison criteria(bestfitness value,averagefitness value,and average execution time)overall datasets in 30 different runs.Furthermore,the proposed algorithm also exhibits better performance than the state–of–the–art algorithms in the three comparison criteria over 30 different runs.

Composition of Web Services of Multi-Population Adaptive Genetic Algorithm Based on Cosine Improvement

Web quality of service (QoS) awareness requires not only the selection of specific services to complete specific tasks, but also the comprehensive quality of service of the whole web service composition. How to select the web service composition with the highest comprehensive QoS is a NP hard problem. In this paper, an improved multi population genetic algorithm is proposed. Cosine adaptive operator is added to the algorithm to avoid premature algorithm caused by improper genetic operator and the disadvantage of destroying excellent individuals in later period. Experimental results show that compared with the common genetic algorithm and multi population genetic algorithm, this algorithm has the advantages of shorter time consumption and higher accuracy, and effectively avoids the loss of effective genes in the population.

Typed formal model for WS-CDL specification of web services composition

In order to formally reason and verify web services composition described by web services choreography specification WS-CDL,a typed formal model named typed Abstract WS-CDL（web services choreography description language）for WS-CDL specifications is proposed.In typed Abstract WS-CDL,the syntax of type and session,typing rules and operational semantics are formalized;the collaborations of web services are formally described by sessions;the operational semantics of a session can help to formally reason the execution of the choreography;the typing rules can help to formally check the data type consistency of exchanged information between web services and capture run-time errors due to type mismatches.Particularly,the concepts of type assumption set extension and type assumption set compatibility are proposed,and the merging algorithm of type assumption sets is defined so as to eliminate type assumption conflict.Based on the formal model,typed mapping rules for mapping web services choreography to orchestration is also defined.With the typed mapping rules,orchestration stubs and their type assumption sets can be generated from a given choreography; thus, web services composition can be verified at choreography and orchestration levels,respectively.The model is proved to have properties of type safety,and how the model can help to reason and verify web services composition is illustrated through a case study.

Minimal role mining method for Web service composition

Web service composition is a low cost and efficient way to leverage the existing resource and implementation.In current Web service composition implementations,the issue of how to define the role for a new composite Web service has been little addressed.Adjusting the access control policy for a new composite Web service always causes substantial administration overhead from the security administrator.Furthermore,the distributed nature of Web service based applications makes traditional role mining methods obsolete.In this paper,we analyze the minimal role mining problem for Web service composition,and prove that this problem is NP-complete.We propose a sub-optimal greedy algorithm based on the analysis of necessary role mapping for interoperation across multiple domains.Simulation shows the effectiveness of our algorithm,and compared to the existing methods,our algorithm has significant performance advantages.We also demonstrate the practical application of our method in a real agent based Web service system.The results show that our method could find the minimal role mapping efficiently.

Dynamic services selection algorithm in Web services composition supporting cross-enterprises collaboration

Based on the deficiency of time convergence and variability of Web services selection for services composition supporting cross-enterprises collaboration,an algorithm QCDSS(QoS constraints of dynamic Web services selection)to resolve dynamic Web services selection with QoS global optimal path,was proposed.The essence of the algorithm was that the problem of dynamic Web services selection with QoS global optimal path was transformed into a multi-objective services composition optimization problem with QoS constraints.The operations of the cross and mutation in genetic algorithm were brought into PSOA(particle swarm optimization algorithm),forming an improved algorithm(IPSOA)to solve the QoS global optimal problem.Theoretical analysis and experimental results indicate that the algorithm can better satisfy the time convergence requirement for Web services composition supporting cross-enterprises collaboration than the traditional algorithms.

Immune Algorithm for Selecting Optimum Services in Web Services Composition

For the problem of dynamic optimization in Web services composition, this paper presents a novel approach for selecting optimum Web services, which is based on the longest path method of weighted multistage graph. We propose and implement an Immune Algorithm for global optimization to construct composed Web services. Results of the experimentation illustrates that the algorithm in this paper has a powerful capability and can greatly improve the efficiency and veracity in service selection.

A Testing Method for Web Services Composition Based on Data-Flow

This paper proposes a method of data-flow testing for Web services composition. Firstly, to facilitate data flow analysis and constraints collecting, the existing model representation of business process execution language （BPEL） is modified in company with the analysis of data dependency and an exact representation of dead path elimination （DPE） is proposed, which over-comes the difficulties brought to dataflow analysis. Then defining and using information based on data flow rules is collected by parsing BPEL and Web services description language （WSDL） documents and the def-use annotated control flow graph is created. Based on this model, data-flow anomalies which indicate potential errors can be discovered by traversing the paths of graph, and all-du-paths used in dynamic data flow testing for Web services composition are automatically generated, then testers can design the test cases according to the collected constraints for each path selected.

Dynamic Service Discovery, Composition and Reconfiguration in a Model Mapping Business Process to Web Services

In any organization where SOA has been implemented, all of the web services are registered in UDDI and users’ needs are served by using appropriate web services. So in this paper, we will try to discover a service from repository first that can provide the required output to the user. The process becomes difficult when a single service is not able to fulfill a user’s need and we need a combination of services to answer complex needs of users. In our paper, we will suggest a simpler approach for dynamic service composition using a graph based methodology. This will be a design time service composition. This approach uses the functional and non-functional parameters of the services to select the most suitable services for composition as per user’s need. This approach involves “service classification” on the basis of functional parameters, “service discovery” on the basis of user’s need and then “service composition” using the selected services on the basis of non-functional parameters like response time, cost, security and availability. Another challenge in SOA implementation is that, once the composition has performed, some services may become faulty at runtime and may stop the entire process of serving a user’s need. So, we will also describe a way of “dynamic service reconfiguration” in our approach that will enable us to identify and replace a faulty service that is violating the SLA or is not accessible anymore. This service reconfiguration is done without redoing or reconfiguring the entire composition. In the end, to simulate the proposed approach, we will represent a prototype application built on php 5.4 using My SQL database at backend.

A Distributed Service Composition Method Based on Service Association

In this paper, a Web service composition architecture based on structured P2P network is proposed. Semantics is used to achieve service accurately matching and user personality customization. Through Web service virtual mapping（WVM） association the fast computing of distributed service composition based on the service function is also implemented. The Web service composition architecture and distributed service composition algorithm proposed in this paper solve a series of existent problems in ser- vice discovery and composition in distributed environment, and provide a service composition result meeting user personality requirement. At the same time, they improve the efficiency of service composition calculation.

A Service Design Oriented Web Services Composite Platform

In order to realize flexible, adaptable, extensible, efficient, and user-friendly service composition, we propose a service design oriented Web Service composite platform （SDOWSCP） and a service composition mechanism called composed-service-requestor-orient ed service composition （OBSDOSC）. SDOWSCP imports ontology into UDDI to define and annotate services in a flexible and intuitive manner and employs a concept of bond as a solution to the process heterogeneity. OBSDOSC is proposed in order to do some efforts to overcome some defects which current design tools usually have such as not user friendly and too professional. This paper proposes a pattern which describes the basic features of semi-automatic composite mode, discusses the whole lifetime of composed service and highlights how to lessen the descriptive heterogeneity and process heterogeneity and how to facilitate the design of composing a service.