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An Automated Approach for Selecting Web Services

Authors:
Alysson Alves
Gledson Elias

Keywords: Web Services; Service-Oriented Architecture; Search Based Software Engineering

Abstract:
The task of selecting web services is one of the main challenges for successfully exploring the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) approach in software development processes. Whereas the availability of web services tends to increase rapidly in the software industry, it is impractical to adopt ad-hoc manual approaches for selecting web services. Thus, considering a very large and complex search space, it is required an automated approach for selecting web services. In such a direction, exploring Search Based Software Engineering (SBSE) techniques, this paper proposes an automated approach for selecting web services, whose optimization strategy is based on functional and structural metrics that evaluate the functionalities provided by candidate web services, as well as their dependencies in the architectural level. As main contribution, experimental results show that the proposed approach represents an extremely complex problem in a systematic and structured way, discovering good-enough or even optimal solutions among the candidate web services.

Pages: 41 to 46

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2016

Publication date: June 26, 2016

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4006

ISBN: 978-1-61208-482-4

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Dates: from June 26, 2016 to June 30, 2016