SMP-Based Approach for Intelligent Service Interaction

Service-oriented computing is establishing itself as a new computing paradigm in which services advertise their capabilities within a network, and then are used, composed and orchestrated by other services and end-users. Whilst many approaches to matching service providers with consumers of their services have been developed in the past, the proposed approach in this paper takes a different view of the problem in that it does not look for the fittest individual utility, but views it as a constrained optimisation problem that matches between a set of services and a set of service requests. Our approach addresses this problem using an adaptation of the well known stable-marriage problem and demonstrates how matching between services and requests to a certain threshold can be expressed. This will contribute a fair assignment between services and requests based on their preferences. As the current state of the service selection process considers only the view of requests, the proposed approach can ensure several features to the services such as service protection and service quality, e.g. it can ensure the preservation of service availability by redirecting a coming request to a similar service if the current service is busy.

@article{AlHakami2014,
  title     = {SMP-Based Approach for Intelligent Service Interaction},
  journal   = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
  volume    = {4},
  number    = {3},
  year      = {2014},
  publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
  note      = {Special Issue on Extended Papers from Science and Information Conference 2014},
  author    = {Hosam AlHakami and Feng Chen and Helge Janicke},
  doi       = {10.14569/SpecialIssue.2014.040314},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.14569/SpecialIssue.2014.040314}
}