Building a quality service-based system (SBS) is one of the most important research topics
in software engineering. Many studies investigate intelligent methods to simplify the process …

The last decade has witnessed a tremendous growth of web services as a major technology
for sharing data, computing resources, and programs on the web. With the increasing …

The fusion of soft computing methods such as neural networks and evolutionary algorithms
have given a very promising performance for time series prediction problems. In order to …

Given the recent proliferation in the number of smart devices connected to the Internet, the
era of Internet of Things (IoT) is challenged with massive amounts of data generation. Fog …

The number of web services has grown drastically. Then how to manage them efficiently in a
service repository is an important issue to address. Given a special field, there often exists …

Automatic syntactic service composition problem consists in automatically selecting
services, from a registry, by matching their input and output data. The composite service …

Nowadays, with the expansion of the number of web services, the discovery and the
selection of the latter are becoming complex tasks. To address this issue, different methods …

With the globe facing various scales of natural disasters then and there, disaster recovery is
one among the hottest research areas and the rescue and recovery services can be highly …

Web service has become the technology of choice for service oriented computing to meet
the interoperability demands in web applications. In the Internet era, the exponential …

Automated service composition fulfills complex tasks by combining different existing web
services together. Unfortunately, optimizing service composition is still a challenging area …