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

  • Hua Guo
  • , Lin Zhang*
  • , Yilong Liu
  • , Fei Tao
  • , Min Shu
  • , Shaomin Mu
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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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.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)579-618
Number of pages40
JournalEuropean Journal of Industrial Engineering
Volume8
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Nov 2014

Keywords

  • Discovery algorithm
  • Service composition
  • Service-correlation
  • Virtual enterprise

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