A probabilistic approach to modeling and estimating the QoS of web-services-based workflows

Information Sciences

Volumn 177, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 5484-5503

  Hwang, San Yih ^a   Wang, Haojun ^b   Tang, Jian ^c   Srivastava, Jaideep ^b  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

^c MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

QoS aggregation; Structural workflow; Web service composition; Web service QoS; Web services; Workflow QoS

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; RANDOM VARIABLES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

COMPOSITE WEB SERVICES; DETERMINISTIC VALUE; EMULATION DATA;

WEB SERVICES;

EID: 34548649823     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2007.07.011     Document Type: Article

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