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Process Optimization

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Business process optimization; QoS-based web services composition

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With the development of the service oriented architecture (SOA), complex applications can be composed as business processes invoking a variety of available Web services (WSs) with different characteristics. Advanced SOA systems [1,12,15] allow the development of applications by specifying component WSs in a process only through their required functional characteristics, and to select WSs during process execution from the ones included in a registry of available services. Service descriptions are stored and retrieved from enhanced UDDI registries, which also provide information about quality of service (QoS) on the provider side. Usually, a set of functionally equivalent services can be selected, i.e., services which implement the same functionality but differ for the quality parameters.

Process optimizationidentifies the best set of services available at run time, taking into consideration end-user...

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  1. Politechnico di Milano University, Milan, Italy

    Danilo Ardagna

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  1. Danilo Ardagna
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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Ling Liu

  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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  1. Dept. di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

    Barbara Pernici

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Ardagna, D. (2018). Process Optimization. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_278

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