2010 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
MAPSS, a Multi- Aspect Partner and Service Selection Method
Authors : Zbigniew Paszkiewicz, Willy Picard
Published in: Collaborative Networks for a Sustainable World
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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In Service-Oriented Virtual Organization Breeding Environments (SOVOBEs), services performed by people, organizations and information systems are composed in potentially complex business processes performed by a set of partners. In a SOVOBE, the success of a virtual organization depends largely on the partner and service selection process, which determines the composition of services performed by the VO partners. In this paper requirements for a partner and service selection method for SOVOBEs are defined and a novel
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ulti-
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spect
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artner and
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ervice
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election method,
MAPSS
, is presented. The MAPSS method allows a VO planner to select appropriate services and partners based on their competences and their relations with other services/partners. The MAPSS method relies on a genetic algorithm to select the most appropriate set of partners and services.