Towards optimal service composition upon QoS in agent cooperation

  • Authors:
  • Chattrakul Sombattheera;Jun Shen

  • Affiliations:
  • Faculty of Informatics, Mahasarakham University, Khamreang, Kantarawichai, Mahasarakham, 44150, Thailand;School of Information Systems and Technology SISAT, Faculty of Informatics, University of Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

It is quite common in tourism industry that a tourist would love to gain the most wonderful experience from visiting multiple places in one trip. This is a service composition problem and is difficult to manage because of several reasons. We address this problem by proposing an agent-based service composition framework to allocate to the tourist an optimal composite service. We take into account a number of factors including: 1 all the places of interest must be visited; 2 the preference on visiting places must be obeyed; 3 the total price is within the budget; 4 the time constraint must be obeyed; 5 the payoffs for service providers are worthwhile and fair. We propose a bottom-up approach to allocate the optimal service composition where intelligent agents are deployed to provide flexibility and efficiency to the system. As a result, the system is more independent and every party is better off.