分布式资源的Web服务组合机制

单个资源的服务往往不能满足任务需求,而多个服务的组合却可以派生出新的服务。为此,模拟迷宫求解的思路,设计了一套通用服务组合算法,将分布式资源提供的可用服务看作为迷宫中的条条道路,而将服务组合方案看作为连接迷宫入口和出口的一条通路,通过服务与服务、服务与需求之间的功能性关联,自动生成满足任务需求的服务组合方案。模拟实验验证了方法的有效性。     

Towards efficiency of QoS-driven semantic web service composition for large-scale service-oriented systems

Quality-of-Service (QoS) performance guarantee for service-oriented systems (SOS) has become a critical problem. With the increasing number of offered services comes the challenge of efficiently building large-scale SOS to meet the required QoS criteria. Optimization of QoS-driven semantic Web service composition is known to be NP-hard. We address the efficiency issue by developing a polynomial time algorithm (QDA) for shortest sequence composition. We use dynamic programming to find service candidates for each execution. When all the services are searched, we use a depth-first trace back to derive the execution plan. We have tested our approach under Web-scale demands 20,000 services and 150,000 semantic concepts. In comparison with existing approaches, our experimental results show that QDA can be used to solve large-scale service composition problem effectively and efficiently with QoS guarantee.     

Heuristics for composite Web service decentralization

A composite service is usually specified by means of a process model that captures control-flow and data-flow relations between activities that are bound to underlying component services. In mainstream service orchestration platforms, this process model is executed by a centralized orchestrator through which all interactions are channeled. This architecture is not optimal in terms of communication overhead and has the usual problems of a single point of failure. In previous work, we proposed a method for executing composite services in a decentralized manner. However, this and similar methods for decentralized composite service execution do not optimize the communication overhead between the services participating in the composition. This paper studies the problem of optimizing the selection of services assigned to activities in a decentralized composite service, both in terms of communication overhead and overall quality of service, and taking into account collocation and separation constraints that may exist between activities in the composite service. This optimization problem is formulated as a quadratic assignment problem. The paper puts forward a greedy algorithm to compute an initial solution as well as a tabu search heuristic to identify improved solutions. An experimental evaluation shows that the tabu search heuristic achieves significant improvements over the initial greedy solution. It is also shown that the greedy algorithm combined with the tabu search heuristic scale up to models of realistic size.     

一种高效的服务组合优化算法

随着功能性属性相同而非功能性属性各异的Web服务的大量涌现,如何在服务组合业务流程中为各个任务选择相应的组件服务以达到组合服务的QoS(quality of service)最大化,并在此基础上满足不同用户的需求,已成为了国内外研究的热点.由于该问题的复杂性(NP-hard),目前存在的大多数方法都并不十分适合需要相对精确、实时决策的Web服务组合系统.因此,本文提出了一种基于凸包构建的组合服务优化算法(CM-HEU)用以解决QoS感知的服务组合优化问题.CM-HEU首先通过对组合服务中的每组任务进行凸包构建,以减少搜索空间.然后通过对初始解向量的多次升级和一次降级操作以达到全局优化的目标.实验表明:相对于现阶段存在的一些主流方法,CM-HEU不仅能得到一个比较理想的结果,并且具有良好的效率.     

A biologically inspired multimedia content repurposing system in heterogeneous environments

The application of biologically inspired algorithms to multimedia repurposing systems in heterogeneous network environments is gaining importance due to its ability to adapt and customize multimedia content to frequently changing network environments. This paper presents a biologically inspired proxy-based multimedia content adaptation system, which is used to repurpose multimedia content dynamically for the transmission over heterogeneous networks and end devices. We use a series of repurposing proxies’ services in a chain fashion between the sender and multiple end devices. In order to find the appropriate chain of repurposing services that satisfy the Quality of Experience (QoE) requirements, the proposed service selection algorithm uses the ant colony metaphor. During the communication session, the algorithm uses biological foraging behavior inspired from ant agents to find optimal service paths between the media sender and the destination. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm provides significant performance gain over traditional, state of the art selection algorithms and saves the average delay.     

QoS-aware optimal and automated semantic web service composition with user’s constraints

Automated semantic web service composition is one of the critical research challenges of service-oriented computing, since it allows users to create an application simply by specifying the inputs that the application requires, the outputs it should produce, and any constraints it should respect. The composition problem has been handled using a variety of techniques, from artificial intelligence planning to optimization algorithms. However no approach so far has focused on handling three composition dimensions simultaneously, producing solutions that are: (1) fully functional (i.e., fully executable) by using a mechanism of semantic matching between the services involved in the solutions, (2) are optimized according to non-functional quality-of-service (QoS) measurements, and (3) respect global QoS constraints. This paper presents a novel approach based on a Harmony Search algorithm that addresses these three dimensions simultaneously through a fitness function, to select the optimal or near-optimal solution in semantic web service composition. In our approach, the search space is modeled as a planning-graph structure which encodes all the possible composition solutions for a given user request. To improve the selection process we have compared the original Harmony Search algorithm with its recently developed variants Improved Harmony Search (IHS) algorithm and Global Best Harmony Search (GHS) algorithm. An experimentation of the approach conducted with an extended version of the Web Service Challenge 2009 dataset showed that: (1) our approach is efficient and effective to extract the optimal or near-optimal composition in diverse scenarios; and (2) both variants IHS and GHS algorithms have brought improvements in terms of fitness and execution time.     

跨媒体组合方法研究

大数据时代以多媒体计算为基础的跨媒体计算技术已成为信息技术研究的热点。但是,对跨媒体的获取、组合和应用仍缺乏有效的方法。提出了两种跨媒体组合方法。以开发跨媒体在线二叉树遍历课程为例。第一种方法以Web服务的模式,引用多种类型多媒体数据,将其以服务组合的方式进行拼接,从而构成跨媒体服务。第二种方法是基于本实验室团队自主研发的PAR平台中的"New SQL"技术与Apla语言程序,使用PAR平台的多媒体数据库技术实现对跨媒体数据的存储和检索,进而构成Apla语言程序,实现部署在云端的多媒体服务,有效地解决了跨媒体的组合与存储问题。     

An adaptive algorithm for QoS-aware service composition in grid environments

Service composition enables users to realize their complex needs as a single request and it has been recognized as a flexible way for resource sharing and application integration since the appearance of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). For each of the needed individual services there may be many candidate services available presented by different vendors and with different functional and non-functional properties such as Quality of Service (QoS). Approaches are needed to select candidate services with various QoS levels according to user’s performance requirements meanwhile adapt to dynamic churn in grid environments. This paper mainly focuses on adaptive management of QoS-aware service composition in grid environments and proposes an adaptive algorithm for QoS-aware service composition (AQSC). In AQSC we model this problem as the Multi-Constrained Optimal Path selection problem (MCOP) and use heuristic approach for service selection, then backup services set is introduced as an adaptive mechanism so as to ensure the fulfillment of composite service when some candidate services fail or withdraw. Both theoretical analysis and simulation results indicate that AQSC has high composition success rate, finish rate and low cost.     

Preference-driven personalization for flexible digital item adaptation

The delivery of multimedia content often needs the adaptation of the content in order to satisfy user constraints. With the Digital Item Adaptation part, the MPEG-21 standard already defines a useful frame-work to handle this task. However, in modern service-oriented architectures the functionality of adaptation is split over several services. Hence, the central instantiation of a suitable service chain needs to tackle a complex multi-objective optimization problem. In this problem between content choice and possible adaptations the current preference model in the MPEG-7/21 standard still lacks expressiveness. In the course of this paper we demonstrate this shortcoming and how the integration of more powerful models can ease the instantiation problem. Furthermore we explain how to efficiently evaluate preference trade-offs by evaluating skyline queries as currently investigated in the field of information systems. As a running example we use preference-based content adaptation in a typical media streaming application with Web services as basic modules. The contribution of our framework is to enable a central coordinator to instantiate an executable service composition chain by integrating all needed Web services to adapt the multimedia content in the best possible fashion in the sense of Pareto optimality. This work was supported in part by the German Research Foundation (DFG) within the Emmy-Noether Program of Exellence.     

Composing semantic Web services under constraints

Web service composition is an inevitable aspect of Web services technology, which solves complex problems by combining available basic services and ordering them to best suit the problem requirements. Automatic composition gives us flexibility of selecting best candidate services at composition time satisfying QoS requirements; this would require the user to define constraints for selecting and composing candidate Web services. In this work, a Web service composition approach is presented in which a rich set of constraints can be defined on the composite service. The output of the framework is the schedule of Web service composition in which how and when services are executed is defined. The basic properties of the proposed approach is converting Web service composition problem into a constraint satisfaction problem in order to find the best solution that meets all criteria defined by user and providing semantic compatibility and composability during composition.     

Enabling context-aware multimedia annotation by a novel?generic semantic problem-solving platform

Automatic generation of metadata, facilitating the retrieval of multimedia items, potentially saves large amounts of manual work. However, the high specialization degree of feature extraction algorithms makes them unaware of the context they operate in, which contains valuable and often necessary information. In this paper, we show how Semantic Web technologies can provide a context that algorithms can interact with. We propose a generic problem-solving platform that uses Web services and various knowledge sources to find solutions to complex requests. The platform employs a reasoner-based composition algorithm, generating an execution plan that combines several algorithms as services. It then supervises the execution of this plan, intervening in case of errors or unexpected behavior. We illustrate our approach by a use case in which we annotate the names of people depicted in a photograph.     

基于SPEA2+算法的Web服务选择研究

服务选择算法是影响组合服务的QoS和服务组合性能高低的关键因素。针对将多维QoS属性加权聚合为一个目标函数进行优化的选择算法不能实质性地解决基于QoS的Web服务选择问题,采用改进的强度Pareto进化算法（SPEA2+）多目标优化求解该问题,设计了一种Web服务选择算法。该算法在满足声誉、可靠性和可利用性属性的约束下,同时最小化服务时间T和服务费用C,以产生Pareto最优解集。通过与运用SPEA2算法求解该问题的实验对比,表明了两算法所获取的Pareto最优解集中QoS属性T和C各均值各有优劣,用户可依据对T或C的偏好择优选择。     

基于QoS的Web服务选择方法研究新进展*

随着服务计算、云计算技术的迅速发展,具有相同或相似功能但服务质量（QoS）不同的可用服务已大规模部署在互联网上。如何从这些海量Web服务中为服务组合选择令人满意的服务成了一个重要的研究问题,其选择方法是影响组合服务的QoS 和服务组合性能高低的关键因素。为了解决该问题,研究者们已开发了许多服务选择方法以帮助用户选择合适的服务。针对近五年基于QoS的Web服务选择方法的新进展进行了综述。归纳了包括运用Skyline计算、协同过滤、优化算法、多属性决策支持理论和混合方法等一些典型的服务选择方法,讨论了各方法的优势和局限性,并根据当前研究现状,探讨了该领域的发展趋势和未来研究方向和挑战。     

求解Web服务组合QoS优化的多属性决策及自适应遗传算法

随着面向服务计算(Service-oriented Computing,SOC)的不断发展,基于服务质量(Quality of Service,QoS)的Web服务组合研究成为了必然趋势。鉴于QoS属性的多维性及相互矛盾性,提出将基于QoS的Web服务组合优化问题转化为多属性决策问题进行求解。采用折中系数 对每个组合服务实例到正负理想点的距离进行累加求和,最终得到一组最优服务排序结果,用户可以根据自身偏好进行选择。传统的多属性决策方法无法有效地处理大规模的组合服务搜索空间,因此,为了有效地解决Web服务组合优化这一NP难题,提出一种结合多属性决策方法和自适应遗传算法的新型优化算法来解决该问题。实验采用真实的QoS综合服务数据集进行验证,实验结果表明,该方法能够在较短时间内找到全局近似最优解,且解集的排序结果接近于实际的最优服务排序。同时,该方法对于解决大规模的Web服务组合优化问题具有良好的可伸缩性。     

QoS-Driven Self-Healing Web Service Composition Based on Performance Prediction

Web services run in a highly dynamic environment, as a result, the QoS of which will change relatively frequently. In order to make the composite service adapt to such dynamic property of Web services, we propose a self-healing approach for web service composition. Such an approach is an integration of backing up in selection and reselecting in execution. In order to make the composite service heal itself as quickly as possible and minimize the number of reselections, a way of performance prediction is proposed in this paper. On this basis, the self-healing approach is presented including framework, the triggering algorithm of the reselection and the reliability model of the service. Experiments show that the proposed solutions have better performance in supporting the self-healing Web service composition. This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 60773218.     

面向用户主导问题求解环境的服务组合方法

为提高服务组合的即时性,适应用户业务需求的变化以及服务资源的动态和异构性,提出一种适应用户主导问题求解环境的服务组合方法。探讨了维护服务交互关系的相对稳定性的策略,提出了基于服务相容性的服务聚类规则,基于聚类服务关联图的组合模板构建方法及其最优性的保障手段和组合模板的具体化方法。实验结果表明,该方法可提高服务组合的即时性和适应性,提高服务组合的时间效率。     

A decision-making method for personalized composite service

Web services are emerging technologies that enable application to application communication and reuse of autonomous services. Web services composition is a concept of integrating component services to conduct complex business transactions based on functionality and performance constraints. With the rapid growth of Web services on the Internet, the services owing the same functionality and different performance become more and more, and different users care for different quality. Therefore, designing effective decision-making method for the personalized composite service has become a fundamental problem for the application based on Web service. In this paper, oriented to the user need with single optimization objective, an efficient algorithm, which consists of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Niche technology, is presented to solve the Web service selection problem. Furthermore, in view of the practical composition requirements including multiple optimization objectives, an algorithm used to resolve the service selection with multi-objective multi-constraint is designed based on NPSO and the intelligent optimization theory of multi-objective PSO, which can produce a set of Pareto optimal composite services by means of optimizing various objective functions simultaneously. Experimental results show that NPSO algorithm owns better global convergence ability with faster convergence speed. Meanwhile, multi-objective multi-constraint NPSO is both feasible and efficient.     

基于Dijkstra算法的Web服务合成选择策略研究

Web服务合成中操作的选择是一个关键问题,这直接影响到用户对合成的复合服务的满意度、解决该问题的关键是对候选Web服务的输入输出数据关系进行建模,以及有效利用这些已有的数据依赖关系实现服务合成的请求。通过从Web服务规范语言中提取Web服务的语义信息．掏建Web服务的有向图,并分析Diikstra算法用于Web服务合成的问题。提出了相应的船决办法,给出了一个基于Diikstra算法的Web服务合成选择策略的算法。该算法能在合成中选择最恰当的操作组合．产生最终的复合服务。