Towards a User-Centric Social Approach to Web Service Composition, Execution, and Monitoring
Résumé
This paper discusses the intertwine of social networks of users and
social networks of Web services to compose, execute, and monitor Web services.
Each network provides details that permit achieving this intertwine and thus,
completing the three operations. A user social-network is used to advise users on
the next Web services to select based on their peers’ experiences, whereas a Web
service social network is used to advise users on the substitutes to select in case
a Web service fails, for example. To make the intertwine of these social networks
happen, three components are developed: composer, executor, and monitor. The
social composer develops composite Web services considering relations between
users and the ones betweenWeb services. The social executor assesses the impact
of these relations on these composite Web services execution progress. Finally,
the social monitor replaces failing Web services to guarantee the execution
continuity of these composite Web services. A running example and a prototype
illustrate and demonstrate the intertwine of these social networks, respectively.