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Peer-reviewed
2014

QoS Analysis for Service Composition by Human and Web Services.

IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst.
  • Donghui Lin
  • ,
  • Toru Ishida 0001
  • ,
  • Yohei Murakami
  • ,
  • Masahiro Tanaka

Volume
97-D
Number
4
First page
762
Last page
769
Language
English
Publishing type
Research paper (scientific journal)
DOI
10.1587/transinf.E97.D.762
Publisher
IEICE-INST ELECTRONICS INFORMATION COMMUNICATIONS ENG

The availability of more and more Web services provides great varieties for users to design service processes. However, there are situations that services or service processes cannot meet users' requirements in functional QoS dimensions (e.g., translation quality in a machine translation service). In those cases, composing Web services and human tasks is expected to be a possible alternative solution. However, analysis of such practical efforts were rarely reported in previous researches, most of which focus on the technology of embedding human tasks in software environments. Therefore, this study aims at analyzing the effects of composing Web services and human activities using a case study in the domain of language service with large scale experiments. From the experiments and analysis, we find out that (I) service implementation variety can be greatly increased by composing Web services and human activities for satisfying users' QoS requirements; (2) functional QoS of a Web service can be significantly improved by inducing human activities with limited cost and execution time provided certain quality of human activities; and (3) multiple QoS attributes of a composite service are affected in different ways with different quality of human activities.

Link information
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1587/transinf.E97.D.762
DBLP
https://dblp.uni-trier.de/rec/journals/ieicet/LinIMT14
J-GLOBAL
https://jglobal.jst.go.jp/en/detail?JGLOBAL_ID=201402230900301089
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000342784100015&DestApp=WOS_CPL
URL
http://search.ieice.org/bin/summary.php?id=e97-d_4_762
URL
https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/journals/ieicet/ieicet97d.html#LinIMT14
ID information
  • DOI : 10.1587/transinf.E97.D.762
  • ISSN : 1745-1361
  • DBLP ID : journals/ieicet/LinIMT14
  • J-Global ID : 201402230900301089
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000342784100015

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