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Towards a Constraint-based Approach for Service Aggregation and Selection in Cloud E-Marketplaces

Ezenwoke, Azubuike and Daramola, Olawande and Adigun , M. O. (2017) Towards a Constraint-based Approach for Service Aggregation and Selection in Cloud E-Marketplaces. In: Future Technologies Conference (FTC), Vancouver, Canada, 29-30 November 2017|.

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Abstract

Service providers leverage cloud ecosystems and cloud e-marketplaces to increase the business value of their services to reach a wider range of service users. The operations of commercial e-marketplaces can be further enhanced by enabling service composition mechanisms that allow automatic aggregation of atomic services into composite offerings that meets complex user requirements. Existing approaches of cloud service selection are yet to achieve this. Currently, users are constrained to make choices only from a set of predefined atomic services, or at best, manually configure their desirable features and QoS requirements in order to realize their complex requirements given that they have deep knowledge of the service domain. In this paper, a constraint-based approach for service composition and selection to address this problem was proposed. The proposed approach applies constraint-based automated reasoning on feature models to formally guide the aggregation of atomic services to offer composite services in order to satisfy complex requirements with minimal user involvement. The plausibility of the proposed approach is demonstrated via an illustrative customer relationship management (CRM) service ecosystem. The study offers a credible way to replicate the kind of user experience that is currently available on e-commerce platforms in cloud service e-marketplaces.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Uncontrolled Keywords: cloud computing; ecosystem; e-marketplace; feature model; constraint programming
Subjects: Q Science > Q Science (General)
Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Computer software
Divisions: Faculty of Engineering, Science and Mathematics > School of Electronics and Computer Science
Depositing User: Mrs Hannah Akinwumi
Date Deposited: 18 Sep 2018 13:05
Last Modified: 18 Sep 2018 13:05
URI: http://eprints.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/id/eprint/11788

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