Analyzing genetic algorithm for web service selection

Abstract

Many service providers are offering Web services having similar functionality and differing in non-functional aspects. Selection of appropriate web service meeting the functional requirement and satisfying the non-functional (QoS) constraints is an important and difficult task. This process of Web services selection also determines the performance of Web service based system. Similarly, for execution of composite Web-service, the Web service selection process becomes the dominant factor for determining system performance. In this paper, the usage of genetic algorithm for the Web service selection approach is analyzed.