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Managing QoS degradation of partner web services: A proactive and preventive approach

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Journal of Service Science Research

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In the service oriented paradigm, a software solution is a composition of individual web services. These web services, also called partner services, contribute not only to realize the functional capabilities of the software solution but also determine its Quality of Service (QoS). A partner web service operates in a dynamic environment, and hence is vulnerable to failures, or suffers from QoS degradation. The failure of a partner web service compromises QoS of service based solution. Therefore, a research challenge arises as to how to manage web services which suddenly disappear at the time of execution or stop performing as expected. Several solutions exist for run time monitoring of the partner web services so that when QoS values of some of them degrade, the software solution can be adapted and executed using alternative web services with better QoS. But these solutions are confined either to client side or to provider side. In this paper, we propose a solution which is distributed between the clients and the service providers. It is a software agent based framework that prevents invocation of partner web services with degraded QoS. The experimental results show the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed solution in a dynamic runtime environment.

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  1. Deptt. Of Computer Science, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India

    Navinderjit Kaur Kahlon & Kuljit Kaur Chahal

  2. Deptt.of Electronics Technology, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India

    Sukhleen Bindra Narang

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Navinderjit Kaur Kahlon received the M.C.A. degree from Guru Nanak Dev University, India and is pursuing Ph.D. degree in Department of Computer Science, Guru Nanak Dev University, India. The research interests include service oriented computing, dynamic monitoring of web services and agent based systems.

Kuljit Kaur Chahal received the Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2011. She is currently working with the Department of Computer Science of Guru Nanak Dev University, India. Her research interests are in distributed computing, web services security, and open source software.

Sukhleen Bindra Narang received the masters in computer science and technology from university of Roorkee (IIT Roorkee) and Ph.d. Degree from Guru Nanak Dev University, India. She is currently working as Professor in Department of Electronics Technology, Guru Nanak Dev University, India. Her current research includes Microwaves, Neural Networks and Service Oriented Computing.

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Kahlon, N.K., Chahal, K.K. & Narang, S.B. Managing QoS degradation of partner web services: A proactive and preventive approach. J Serv Sci Res 8, 131–159 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12927-016-0007-6

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