Towards a User-Centric Social Approach to Web Services Composition, Execution, and Monitoring

Abstract

Abstract. This paper discusses the intertwine of social networks of users and social networks of Web services to compose, execute, and monitor Web services. Each network provides details that permit achieving this intertwine and thus, completing the three operations. A user social-network is used to advise users on the next Web services to select based on their peers' experiences, whereas a Web service social network is used to advise users on the substitutes to select in case a Web service fails, for example. To make the intertwine of these social networks happen, three components are developed: composer, executor, and monitor. The social composer develops composite Web services considering relations between users and the ones between Web services. The social executor assesses the impact of these relations on these composite Web services execution progress. Finally, the social monitor replaces failing Web services to guarantee the execution continuity of these composite Web services. A running example and a prototype illustrate and demonstrate the intertwine of these social networks, respectively.

Collaborative Web Service Discovery and Recommendation Based on Social Link

“…In [3], the concept of community and the metaphor of social networking were discussed to build a framework to managing Web services, in which a community was proposed to gather Web services that offer similar functionalities together, and a social networking was designed to capture all interactions that occur between services located in the same or separate communities. Z. Maamar et al discussed the intertwining of social networks of users and social networks in [4]. They used the former to help users select the necessary services, and adopted the latter to permit extending these services with new services or maintaining the operation continuity in case of failure.…”

“…Similarly, User Clustering Link can be defined as the set of users and their similarities, which is described as Equation (4).…”

Towards Resource-aware Business Process development in the Cloud

“…Some other studies have capitalized on social networking and argue its utility for web services and Business Process Management by means of taking into account and defining dependencies between its components [9], [10], [8] and [7]. Approaches in [2] and [13] have considered the human resource as cloud compute units via respectively proposing a framework considering group of people as a social compute unit (SCU) and applying this concept in the context of resolution of incidents in an IT service organization.…”

“…Likewise, we can deduce that there is a lack of semantic modeling models. Moroever, resource dependencies have been pointed out only in [8]. To overcome these gaps, our proposal aims at better handling these assessment criteria.…”

A Fuzzy Model for Selecting Social Web Services

“…In a recent work [21], we assigned successfully social qualities like selfishness and fairness to Web services depending on how they interact with peers, sometimes competing peers. In this paper, we apply fuzzy logic to social Web services (more details on how social Web services differ from regular Web services are available in [6,7,8]) selection, i.e., how do social qualities affect this selection? In addition to expressing their preferences on Web services' computing behaviors (i.e., QoS), users now have the opportunity of fine tuning these preferences with respect to these Web services' social behaviors.…”