A discovery method of service-correlation for service composition in virtual enterprise

Hua Guo, Lin Zhang, Yilong Liu, Fei Tao, Min Shu and Shaomin Mu

European Journal of Industrial Engineering, 2014, vol. 8, issue 5, 579-618

Abstract: With the increasingly fierce market competition and rapid development of information technology, as a new organisation, virtual enterprise (VE) emerges from the business process of single enterprise. Service composition, which can realise the added value of service, is the core to implement a VE. Considering that there always exist correlations among services, which can affect the service composition. Hence, how to find the correlations between two services and apply them to service composition is a key issue. This paper presents the formalised description for correlations between two services, and designs discovery algorithms of service-correlation to find what kind of correlations two services have. A case study illustrates the application of the proposed discovery algorithms. The effectiveness of proposed service-correlation discovery algorithm is demonstrated through simulation experiment. [Received 28 September 2011; Revised 28 March 2012; Revised 28 September 2012; Accepted 17 March 2013]

Keywords: virtual enterprises; service correlation; discovery algorithm; service composition; simulation. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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