Social network-based service recommendation with trust enhancement

Given the increasing applications of service computing and cloud computing, a large number of Web services are deployed on the Internet, triggering the research of Web service recommendation. Despite of service QoS, the use of user feedback is becoming the current trend in service recommendation. Likewise in traditional recommender systems, sparsity, cold-start and trustworthiness are major issues challenging service recommendation in adopting similarity-based approaches. Meanwhile, with the prevalence of social networks, nowadays people become active in interacting with various computers and users, resulting in a huge volume of data available, such as service information, user-service ratings, interaction logs, and user relationships. Therefore, how to incorporate the trust relationship in social networks with user feedback for service recommendation motivates this work. In this paper, we propose a social network-based service recommendation method with trust enhancement known as RelevantTrustWalker. First, a matrix factorization method is utilized to assess the degree of trust between users in social network. Next, an extended random walk algorithm is proposed to obtain recommendation results. To evaluate the accuracy of the algorithm, experiments on a real-world dataset are conducted and experimental results indicate that the quality of the recommendation and the speed of the method are improved compared with existing algorithms.     

基于QoS预测与约束层次模型的云服务推荐方法研究

如何精确地预测云服务的QoS,灵活地处理用户的QoS约束是实现可靠云服务推荐的关键问题。针对上述问题,提出了一种基于事例推理的云服务QoS动态预测方法,用于预测候选云服务的QoS值,提高云服务质量的可靠性;提出了一种基于约束层次（Constraint Hierarchy,CH）的QoS评价模型,该模型依据QoS约束对用户业务的重要程度,将其分为必须满足的硬约束层和允许被偏离的软约束层,该模型能够有效地解决过约束问题。通过实验验证了提出的云服务推荐方法的可行性和有效性。     

基于性能感知预测的云服务推荐模型

互联网上出现越来越多的云服务,面对种类繁多的云服务,如何准确地在众多云服务中把符合用户需求并且性能好价格低的服务推荐给用户成为云服务推荐的研究热点.现有的服务推荐方法往往只是根据当前云服务的历史性能记录为用户进行推荐,并没有充分考虑云服务的性能趋势.针对上述问题,本文提出了一种基于性能预测的服务推荐模型,该模型利用共轭梯度改进人工神经网络对云服务的性能进行预测,使用层次分析法对性能,价格等因素进行综合比较计算,最终为用户推荐最为合适的云服务.实验结果表明,使用改进神经网络对服务性能进行预测能够获得较高的准确度,层次分析法可以综合考虑服务的性能与价格,为用户推荐最为合适的云服务.     

基于凸函数证据理论的关联感知云服务信任模型

针对大规模分布式云计算系统中的服务可信度辨别问题,提出一种基于凸函数证据理论的关联感知云服务信任模型。对云计算系统中云服务提供商、服务和用户之间的信任关系进行形式化描述,充分挖掘了同一服务商中的不同云服务之间的关联性,利用凸函数证据理论对有序命题的处理能力,构建了云计算系统中的可信服务推荐方法,根据用户需求为其提供合理可靠的云服务。与经典证据理论方法的对比结果表明,基于凸函数证据理论的关联感知云服务信任模型在保证有效性和健壮性的同时,充分利用了云计算系统中云服务之间的关联信息,能够根据用户的请求提供合理的云服务。     

三网融合下图书云服务个性化推荐

随着云计算技术的飞速发展,数字图书馆云平台 SaaS 层的图书应用服务数量将会快速增长,为图书用户选择个性化的云服务带来困难。通过建立偏好树,构建了三网融合环境下的图书用户模型和图书云服务模型。为了确定图书云服务对图书用户的推荐度,设计了服务选择算法。经过实验数据分析,该算法可以根据图书用户模型的偏好需求,为用户推荐匹配度较高的图书云服务。     

基于UPnP技术设计的多媒体云服务最佳播放设备智能选取系统

当前,许多媒体服务供应商利用云技术向使用者提供流媒体云服务。云服务虽然提升了流媒体业务按需访问的便捷性,但用户在使用流媒体云服务的同时操作的智能化程度较低。用户在流媒体文件选择、媒体设备选择及服务器连接方面缺乏智能手段。此外,系统不具有媒体流播放的断点支持功能。本文利用即插即用网络通信协议UPnP,设计了一套最佳播放设备的智能选取模型。本模型通过分析比较媒体文件元数据与播放设备元数据,自动选取最佳的播放设备。同时,本模型通过断点信息的保存来实现媒体文件二次播放的连续性。本模型为流媒体云服务的断点播放和播放设备智能优化选取,提供了一种有效的技术模型。     

A reputation assessment model for trustful service recommendation

Nowadays, software systems are mainly Web front-based, Cloud-deployed and accessible by a wide audience over the Internet. These online systems commonly rely on Service-oriented Architecture principles, where they are built as orchestrations of RESTful (and in some rare cases as SOAP-based) services. Integrating new services in an existing orchestration is a challenging and risky task because trustworthiness of these services is not guaranteed throughout their lifetime. Reputation of services is a good indicator about the overall quality of services, because it reflects consumer satisfaction regarding the service-offered functionality and quality. Thus, reputation of services could be considered in the selection and recommendation of trustworthy services. In this paper, we present a framework for the management of web service reputation to conduct a better service recommendation. We present a reputation assessment model that aggregates fair user feedback ratings. The model includes a mechanism that prevents the introduction of malicious feedback ratings, by penalizing detected specious users. In addition, this framework includes a bootstrapping technique for estimating reputation of newcomer services based on neighbor similarity and initial advertised QoS. A set of experiments has been conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed framework. The results of these experiments highlighted the potential of our framework. These are presented at the end of the paper.     

A trustworthy QoS-based collaborative filtering approach for web service discovery

Many network services which process a large quantity of data and knowledge are available in the distributed network environment, and provide applications to users based on Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web services technology. Therefore, a useful web service discovery approach for data and knowledge discovery process in the complex network environment is a very significant issue. Using the traditional keyword-based search method, users find it difficult to choose the best web services from those with similar functionalities. In addition, in an untrustworthy real world environment, the QoS-based service discovery approach cannot verify the correctness of the web services’ Quality of Service (QoS) values, since such values guaranteed by a service provider are different from the real ones. This work proposes a trustworthy two-phase web service discovery mechanism based on QoS and collaborative filtering, which discovers and recommends the needed web services effectively for users in the distributed environment, and also solves the problem of services with incorrect QoS information. In the experiment, the theoretical analysis and simulation experiment results show that the proposed method can accurately recommend the needed services to users, and improve the recommendation quality.     

IaaS云安全研究综述

目前,在新一代大规模互联网迅猛发展的背景下,产生的数据量也随之持续增长,这就导致用户的本地设备难以满足海量数据的存储和计算需求。与此同时,云计算作为一种经济高效且灵活的模式,具有易于使用、随用随付、不受时间和空间限制的优势,彻底改变了传统IT基础设施的提供和支付方式,可以有效解决无限增长的海量信息存储和计算问题。因此,在没有昂贵的存储成本和计算资源消耗的情况下,资源有限的用户可以采用云服务提供商（CloudServiceProvider,CSP）为用户提供所期望的服务。其中,基础设施即服务（Infrastructure as a Service, IaaS）作为云计算的三种服务类型之一,将虚拟化、分布式计算和网络存储等技术结合,可以在互联网上提供和租用计算基础设施资源服务（如计算、存储和网络）。故云计算依靠Iaa S层提供的计算基础设施资源,使用户不再需要购买额外设备,从而大大降低使用成本,同时也为上层服务奠定基础。然而,随着云计算服务的不断发展,基于IaaS的安全问题引起人们的关注。为了系统了解Iaa S的安全研究进展和现状,本文对IaaS的安全问题以及学术界和工业界的解决方案进行了...     

Workload-based multi-task scheduling in cloud manufacturing

Cloud manufacturing is an emerging service-oriented business model that integrates distributed manufacturing resources, transforms them into manufacturing services, and manages the services centrally. Cloud manufacturing allows multiple users to request services at the same time by submitting their requirement tasks to a cloud manufacturing platform. The centralized management and operation of manufacturing services enable cloud manufacturing to deal with multiple manufacturing tasks in parallel. An important issue with cloud manufacturing is therefore how to optimally schedule multiple manufacturing tasks to achieve better performance of a cloud manufacturing system. Task workload provides an important basis for task scheduling in cloud manufacturing. Based on this idea, we present a cloud manufacturing multi-task scheduling model that incorporates task workload modelling and a number of other essential ingredients regarding services such as service efficiency coefficient and service quantity. Then we investigate the effects of different workload-based task scheduling methods on system performance such as total completion time and service utilization. Scenarios with or without time constraints are separately investigated in detail. Results from simulation experiments indicate that scheduling larger workload tasks with a higher priority can shorten the makespan and increase service utilization without decreasing task fulfilment quality when there is no time constraint. When time constraint is involved, the above strategy enables more tasks to be successfully fulfilled within the time constraint, and task fulfilment quality also does not deteriorate.     

A personalized recommendation method under the cloud platform based on users’ long-term preferences and instant interests

Rich consumer online text data are embedded in the cloud platform. Using new technologies has become a central issue for acquiring consumer preference, analyzing consumer demand, and performing personalized recommendation services. In order to recommend the cloud platform services efficiently and accurately, this paper proposes a personalized recommendation model referred to as Residual bi-directional Recurrent Neural Network with Dual Attentive mechanism (BiRDA) for the service recommend to cloud platforms, by combining users’ long-term preferences with instant interest. The proposed recommender prototype is summarized as follows. (1) Analyzing the relationship between long-term preferences and instant interests based on co-opetition theory. (2) Extracting users’ online text data from the cloud platform. (3) Deriving the product attribute words of user preference using an analysis of online text data. (4) Product attribute words are transformed into the form of word vectors. (5) The word vector is input into the Residual bi-directional Recurrent Neural Network (Res-BiRNN) to make the prediction. On the one hand, the long-term preference is expressed by the user's field of expertise (i.e., answer content). On the other hand, the even interest is expressed by the user's changing interest (i.e., question data). (6) Assigning different weights to long-term preferences and instant interest using the dual attention mechanism to output predictions. (7) Generating recommendation lists for users based on the predicted values. Accordingly, BiRDA is compared with five state-of-the-art recommendation methods (i.e., DREAM, BINN, SHAN, Caser, and DeepMove), as well as six variants of the BiRDA model, Using users’ Q&A datasets from NiorcngeCDS cloud platform, XMAKE cloud platform, and Asksubarme cloud platform as examples. The experiments show that the proposed method is more efficient and accurate than the other models. Therefore, the study offers some important insights into allowing a large number of resources under the cloud platform to be fully utilized and provides a novel idea for the construction of the cloud platform front-end.     

A multi-agent-based framework for cloud service discovery and selection using ontology

As cloud computing is getting matured day by day, there has been overwhelming interest among the users to avail a plethora of cloud services. Often, these services appear identical in terms of their functionality though they differ in pricing models, computational power, storage policies and Quality-of-Service parameters making the process of service discovery and selection an intricate task. In the absence of any standard specifications, cloud service providers continue to use their own vocabulary and this further complicates the selection process. Even popular search engines like Google and MSN are not efficient enough to properly identify the most appropriate cloud service that can meet customer requirements. Thus, in the presence of multiple selection parameters and constraints, selecting a required cloud service is a daunting task. In order to address this issue, we work toward developing a reasoning mechanism to optimally resolve the similarities across cloud services by using cloud ontology. A multi-agent-based framework has been proposed for effective cloud service discovery and selection with the help of a standardized service registry and by employing semantically guided searching process.     

Uncertainty in cloud service relationships: Uncovering the differential effect of three social influence processes on potential and current users

Consumer cloud services are characterized by uncertainty before usage but also for individuals who are already using the service. Our cloud service relationship model posits that individuals facing continuous uncertainty during adoption and continuance decisions rely on their social environment to make evaluations and decisions. Drawing on a representative dataset of 2011 Internet users, we distinguish three social influence processes from social influence theory (identification, internalization, and compliance) and uncover their differential effect on potential and current users’ uncertainty evaluations and on usage intentions. Our results can help cloud providers to successfully manage their relationships with potential and current users.     

一种基于Web服务的产品推荐系统模型

为了弥补传统的电子商务系统在智能性和扩展性等方面的不足,我们提出了一种基于Web服务的产品推荐系统,该系统能够从电子商务系统的交易日志中挖掘商品的关联规则,并动态地向用户提供产品推荐服务。     

Recommend trustworthy services using interval numbers of four parameters via cloud model for potential users

How to discover the trustworthy services is a challenge for potential users because of the deficiency of usage experiences and the information overload of QoE (quality of experience) evaluations from consumers. Aiming to the limitations of traditional interval numbers in measuring the trustworthiness of service, this paper proposed a novel service recommendation approach using the interval numbers of four parameters (INF) for potential users. In this approach, a trustworthiness cloud model was established to identify the eigenvalue of INF via backward cloud generator, and a new formula of INF possibility degree based on geometrical analysis was presented to ensure the high calculation precision. In order to select the highly valuable QoE evaluations, the similarity of client-side feature between potential user and consumers was calculated, and the multi-attributes trustworthiness values were aggregated into INF by the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process method. On the basis of ranking INF, the sort values of trustworthiness of candidate services were obtained, and the trustworthy services were chosen to recommend to potential user. The experiments based on a realworld dataset showed that it can improve the recommendation accuracy of trustworthy services compared to other approaches, which contributes to solving cold start and information overload problem in service recommendation.     

基于需求预测的主动服务推荐方法

在智能计算领域,网络中可用服务数量与类型的快速增长,使用户更依赖于服务完成各种业务,然而当前“请求-响应”被动式的服务模式严重影响了用户体验与资源利用率。为智能感知用户需求并主动为用户推荐合适的服务,通过引入需求预测过程,提出一种主动服务推荐方法。利用矩阵分解算法从大量历史服务使用数据中提取用户特征和服务特征,据此训练深度学习模型并预测用户的服务需求,进而为用户推荐其所需要的服务。基于真实数据的实验结果表明,该方法较单一的矩阵分解模型和深度神经网络模型具有更高的服务推荐准确性和稳定性。     

Secure service composition with information flow control in service clouds

Service clouds built on cloud infrastructures and service-oriented architecture provide users with a novel pattern of composing basic services to achieve complicated tasks. However, in multiple clouds environment, outsourcing data and applications pose a great challenge to information flow security for the composite services, since sensitive data may be leaked to unauthorized attackers during service composition. Although model checking has been considered as a promising approach to enforce information flow security precisely, its high complexity on modeling and the heavy cost on verification cause great burdens to the process of service composition. In this paper, we propose a distributed approach to composing services securely with information flow control. In our approach, each service component is first verified through model checking, and then a compositional verification procedure is executed to ensure the information flow security along with the composition of these services. The experimental results indicate that our approach can reduce the cost of verification compared with the global verification approach.     

基于用户空间位置评分云模型的Web服务协同过滤推荐算法

Web服务作为无形的产品,不具备真实环境下的空间地理位置坐标,针对服务推荐中无法衡量用户群体与Web服务之间的距离位置关系,造成用户相似度计算失衡,导致推荐不准确等问题,提出了基于用户空间位置评分云模型的Web服务协同过滤推荐算法.首先基于用户群体的行为数据量化Web服务的热度区域,通过空间位置量化评分描述用户对于Web服务的兴趣偏好;其次利用云模型来描述每个用户空间行为评分的整体特征,设计了云模型间相似贴近度的计算方法,基于该方法提出了一种用户差异程度系数评估算法,并作为调控系数优化了皮尔森相似度量;最后通过协同过滤找出用户感兴趣的Web服务.实验结果表明该算法使得用户行为偏好的区域划分更加精确,在推荐准确率上明显提高,为基于位置的Web服务推荐提供新颖的方案.     

Recurrent Tensor Factorization for time-aware service recommendation

With the advent of the era “everything is service ”, the emergence of Web services on the Internet is experiencing an exponential growth trend. How to recommend services to users that utilize sequential historical records has become one of the most challenging research topics in service computing. Tensor Factorization (TF) and Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) networks are two typical application paradigms for sequential service recommendation tasks. However, TF can only learn static short-term dependency patterns between users and services, ignoring the dynamic long-term dependency patterns between users and services. Although LSTM in Deep Leaning can learn dynamic long-term dependency patterns, it often encounters the trouble of vanishing gradient due to its complex gated mechanism. To address these critical challenges, we develop a novel model based on Deep Learning named Recurrent Tensor Factorization (RTF) with three innovations: (1) Three-dimensional interaction tensor of user–service-time was granulated into three fixed-size embedding dense vectors. (2) Personalized Gated Recurrent Unit (PGRU) and Generalized Tensor Factorization (GTF) simultaneously work on shared embedding dense vectors to memorize the long-term and short-term dependency patterns between users and services respectively. (3) Armed with GTF and PGRU, RTF is competent to predict the unknown Quality of Service (QoS) through comprehensive analysis. Experiments are conducted on real-world dataset, and the results indicate that our proposed method obviously outperforms six state-of-the-art time-aware service recommendation methods.