An Introduction to Simulation-Based Techniques for Automated Service Composition

An Introduction to Simulation-Based Techniques for Automated Service Composition

This work is an introduction to the author’s contributions to the SOC area, resulting from his PhD research activity. It focuses on the problem of automatically composing a desired service, given a set of available ones and a target specification. As for description, services are represented as finite-state transition systems, so to provide an abstract account of their behavior, seen as the set...

Simulation-based Techniques for Automated Service Composition

Requirements for Automated Service Composition

Automated service composition is an important approach to create aggregate services out of existing services. Several different approaches towards automated service composition exist. They differ not only in the used algorithms but also in provided functionality. While some support the creation of compositions with alternative or parallel control flow, others are missing this functionality. Thi...

5 Introduction to Simulation Techniques

These lectures give an introduction to Monte Carlo simulations of classical statistical physics systems and their statistical analysis. After briefly recalling a few elementary properties of phase transitions, the concept of importance sampling Monte Carlo methods is discussed and illustrated by a few standard local update algorithms (Metropolis, heat-bath, Glauber). Then emphasis is placed on ...

Automated Web Service Composition

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