Service composition methods range from industry standard approaches based on Web Services and BPEL to Semantic Web approaches that rely on AI techniques to automate service discovery and composition. Service composition research mostly focuses on the dynamic (workflow) aspects of compositions. In this paper we consider the static component of service composition and discuss the importance of co...

The Internet of Things (IoT) universe will continue to expand with the advent sixth generation mobile networks (6G), which is expected support applications and services higher data rates, ultra-reliability, lower latency compared fifth (5G). These new demanding 6G introduce heavy load strict performance requirements on network. Network Function Virtualization (NFV) a promising approach handling...

With the adoption of service-oriented manufacturing modes, more and services are released over service platforms. As it is known, problem QoS (Quality Service)-aware composition NP-hard. Thus, optimization remains a challenging research issue, especially in situation large-scale data which arouse scalability as well. To improve both performance QoS-aware composition, this paper proposes scalabl...

Gas generation (namely, the volume swelling of battery, or called the gassing) is a common phenomenon of the degradation of battery performance, which is generally a result of the electrolyte decomposition occurring during the entire lifespan of Li-ion batteries no matter whether the battery is in service or not. Abuse conditions such as overcharging and overheating make the gassing worse or ev...

This dissertation analyzes three scheduling problems motivated by real life situations. In many manufacturing and service industries, scheduling is an important decision-making process. Unfortunately, scheduling problems are often computationally challenging to solve, and even modeling a scheduling problem can be difficult. Chapter 2 considers single-facility non-preemptive scheduling problems ...

Research in motion planning has been striving to develop faster and faster planning algorithms in order to be able to address a wider range of applications. In this paper a novel real-time motion planning framework, called decomposition-based motion planning, is proposed. It is particularly well suited for planning problems that arise in service and field robotics. It decomposes the original pl...

In the last few years, service-oriented computing has become an emerging research topic in response to the shift from product-oriented economy to service-oriented economy and the move from focusing on software/ system development to addressing business-IT alignment. From an IT perspective, there is a proliferation of methods and languages for describing Web services. There has not been as much ...

Highly competitive and open environments should encompass mechanisms that will assist service providers in accounting for their interests, i.e., offering at a given period of time adequate quality services in a cost efficient manner. Assuming that a user wishes to access a specific service composed of a distinct set of service tasks, which can be served by various candidate service nodes, a pro...