Review on service selection schemes based on user preferences

Abstract

A variety of schemes for user preference-based Web Service selection has been developed over the years. Users provide their preferences and then receive related services by the service selection mechanisms using different schemes. The individual performance of these schemes may vary while using different quality measures under changed circumstances. In this review, focus is on Service Selection schemes in the Web Service selection domain. Overall, a total of seventy-six (76) studies from 2004 to 2013 have been reviewed in this paper. However, twenty-five (25) studies were selected and categorized into five (5) groups that focused on each one of the five schemes (CP-Nets, OWL, QoS, Multi-request, and Ranking) and performance related quality attributes. The findings indicate the following results of differing schemes, namely: accuracy is focused upon to a greater degree of (56%) compared to the other quality attributes, specifically: efficiency (40%), effectiveness (40%), scalability (24%) and reliability (16%) respectively.