Handling Uncertainty in Data Services Composition
Résumé
Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in
using Web Services as a powerful means for data publishing
and sharing on top of the Web. This class of services is
commonly known as DaaS (Data-as-a-Service), or also data
services. The data returned by a data service is often subject
to uncertainty for various reasons (e.g., privacy constraints,
unreliable data collection instruments, etc. In this paper, we
revisit the basic activities related to (Web) data services that are
impacted by uncertainty, including the service description, invocation
and composition. We propose a probabilistic approach
to deal with uncertainty in all of these activities.