A novel layered method was proposed to solve the problem of Web services composition.In this method,services composition problem was formally transformed into the optimal matching problem of every layer,then optimal m...A novel layered method was proposed to solve the problem of Web services composition.In this method,services composition problem was formally transformed into the optimal matching problem of every layer,then optimal matching problem was modeled based on the hypergraph theory,and solved by computing the minimal transversals of the hypergraph.Meanwhile,two optimization algorithms were designed to discard some useless states at the intermediary steps of the composition algorithm.The effectiveness of the composition method was tested by a set of experiments,in addition,an example regarding the travel services composition was also given.The experimental results show that this method not only can automatically generate composition tree whose leaf nodes correspond to services composition solutions,but also has better performance on execution time and solution quality by adopting two proposed optimization algorithms.展开更多
基金Project(2010CB328101) supported by the National Basic Research Program of ChinaProject(2009AA01Z401) supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China+4 种基金Projects(60803032,90818023) supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaProjects(09510701300,09JC1414200,09DZ1120403) supported by the Shanghai Science and Technology Commission,China"Shu Guang" Project(10SG23) supported by Shanghai Municipal Education Commission and Shanghai Education Development Foundation,ChinaProject(09QA1405800) supported by Shanghai Science and Technology Commission Rising-Star Program,ChinaProject(NCET-10-0598) supported by Program for New Century Excellent Talents in Chinese University
文摘A novel layered method was proposed to solve the problem of Web services composition.In this method,services composition problem was formally transformed into the optimal matching problem of every layer,then optimal matching problem was modeled based on the hypergraph theory,and solved by computing the minimal transversals of the hypergraph.Meanwhile,two optimization algorithms were designed to discard some useless states at the intermediary steps of the composition algorithm.The effectiveness of the composition method was tested by a set of experiments,in addition,an example regarding the travel services composition was also given.The experimental results show that this method not only can automatically generate composition tree whose leaf nodes correspond to services composition solutions,but also has better performance on execution time and solution quality by adopting two proposed optimization algorithms.
