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The effects of alliance information on Web service composition

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Web service composition (WSC) has emerged as a promising approach to integrating business applications within and across organizational boundaries. One of the major objectives of WSC research is to improve the performance of composite Web services. To this end, alliance information between different services partners has great potential, but has been overlooked by extant approaches to composing Web services. To address the above limitation, we propose an alliance-aware method for WSC in this paper, which incorporates the alliance information in constructing Web services. In addition, we adopt a multi-agent architecture to model and evaluate methods for WSC. Our experiment results reveal a significant impact of alliance information on the performance of WSC. We believe our findings on WSC are important to both WSC researchers and practitioners.

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This work was partially sponsored by ADVANCE Research Assistantship Program funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Any opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of NSF.

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Sung, Yw., Zhou, L. The effects of alliance information on Web service composition. Inf Syst E-Bus Manage 6, 403–417 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10257-007-0071-z

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