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QoS-based service selection aims at finding the best component services that satisfy the end-to-end quality requirements. The problem can be modeled as a multi-dimension multi-choice 0-1 knapsack problem, which is known as NP-hard. Recently published solutions propose using linear programming techniques to solve the problem. However, the poor scalability of linear program solving methods restricts their applicability to small-size problems and renders them inappropriate for dynamic applications with run-time requirements. In this paper, we address this problem and propose a scalable QoS computation approach based on a heuristic algorithm, which decomposes the optimization problem into small sub-problems that can be solved more efficiently than the original problem. Experimental evaluations show that near-to-optimal solutions can be found using our algorithm much faster than using linear programming methods.
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Alrifai, M., Risse, T., Dolog, P., Nejdl, W. (2009). A Scalable Approach for QoS-Based Web Service Selection. In: Feuerlicht, G., Lamersdorf, W. (eds) Service-Oriented Computing – ICSOC 2008 Workshops. ICSOC 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5472. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01247-1_20
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