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This paper discusses a combinatorial problem about the selection of candidates for Web service compositions. The problem occurs if we assume that a discovery process has identified several candidates for each task of a composition and if the selection must consider multiple criteria. We anticipate to use quality-of-service (QoS) categories as selection criteria and thus the problem is about optimising the QoS of compositions at their planning-phase. This paper will explain this problem and propose different heuristics as possible solutions. Based on a software simulation a performance evaluation of these heuristics is given.
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Jaeger, M.C., Rojec-Goldmann, G. (2006). SENECA – Simulation of Algorithms for the Selection of Web Services for Compositions. In: Bussler, C., Shan, MC. (eds) Technologies for E-Services. TES 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3811. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11607380_8
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