Yuxin Liu, Qingyong Deng, Zhiwen Zeng, Anfeng Liu, Zhetao Li
{"title":"A Hybrid Optimization Framework for Age of Information Minimization in UAV-assisted MCS","authors":"Yuxin Liu, Qingyong Deng, Zhiwen Zeng, Anfeng Liu, Zhetao Li","doi":"10.1109/tsc.2025.3528339","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/tsc.2025.3528339","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13255,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Services Computing","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142961319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"TF-DDRL: A Transformer-enhanced Distributed DRL Technique for Scheduling IoT Applications in Edge and Cloud Computing Environments","authors":"Zhiyu Wang, Mohammad Goudarzi, Rajkumar Buyya","doi":"10.1109/tsc.2025.3528346","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/tsc.2025.3528346","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13255,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Services Computing","volume":"40 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142961594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fuyi Wang, Jinzhi Ouyang, Xiaoning Liu, Lei Pan, Leo Yu Zhang, Robin Doss
{"title":"MedShield: A Fast Cryptographic Framework for Private Multi-Service Medical Diagnosis","authors":"Fuyi Wang, Jinzhi Ouyang, Xiaoning Liu, Lei Pan, Leo Yu Zhang, Robin Doss","doi":"10.1109/tsc.2025.3526369","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/tsc.2025.3526369","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13255,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Services Computing","volume":"139 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142936236","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intent-Guided Bilateral Long and Short-Term Information Mining With Contrastive Learning for Sequential Recommendation","authors":"Junhui Niu;Wei Zhou;Fengji Luo;Yihao Zhang;Jun Zeng;Junhao Wen","doi":"10.1109/TSC.2024.3520868","DOIUrl":"10.1109/TSC.2024.3520868","url":null,"abstract":"The current sequential recommendation systems mainly focus on mining information related to users to make personalized recommendations. However, there are two subjects in the user historical interaction sequence: users and items. We believe that mining sequence information only from the users’ perspective is limited, ignoring effective information from the perspective of items, which is not conducive to alleviating the data sparsity problem. To explore potential links between items and use them for recommendation, we propose Intent-guided Bilateral Long and Short-Term Information Mining with Contrastive Learning for Sequential Recommendation (IBLSRec), which interpretively integrates three kinds of information mined from the sequence: user preferences, user intentions, and potential relationships between items. Specifically, we model the potential relationships between interactive items from a long-term and short-term perspective. The short-term relationship between items is regarded as noise; the long-term relationship between items is regarded as a stable common relationship and integrated with the user's personalized preferences. In addition, user intent is used to guide the modeling of user preferences to refine the representation of user preferences further. A large number of experiments on four real data sets validate the superiority of our model.","PeriodicalId":13255,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Services Computing","volume":"18 1","pages":"212-225"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142924661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mei Li;Cheng Zhou;Lu Lu;Yan Zhang;Tao Sun;Danyang Chen;Hongwei Yang;Zhiqiang Li
{"title":"Automatic Data Generation and Optimization for Digital Twin Network","authors":"Mei Li;Cheng Zhou;Lu Lu;Yan Zhang;Tao Sun;Danyang Chen;Hongwei Yang;Zhiqiang Li","doi":"10.1109/TSC.2024.3522504","DOIUrl":"10.1109/TSC.2024.3522504","url":null,"abstract":"With the rise of new applications such as AR/VR, cloud gaming, and vehicular networks, traditional network management solutions are no longer cost-effective. Digital Twin Network (DTN) creates a real-time virtual twin of the physical network, which improves the network's stability, security, and operational efficiency. AI models have been used to model complex network environments in DTN, whose quality mainly depends on the model architecture and data. This paper proposes an automatic data generation and optimization method for DTN called AutoOPT, which focuses on generating and optimizing data for data-driven DTN AI modeling through data-centric AI. The data generation stage generates data in small networks based on scale-independent indicators, which helps DTN AI models generalize to large networks. The data optimization stage automatically filters out high-quality data through seed sample selection and incremental optimization, which helps enhance the accuracy and generalization of DTN AI models. We apply AutoOPT to the DTN performance modeling scenario and evaluate it on simulated and real network data. The experimental results show that AutoOPT is more cost-efficient than state-of-the-art solutions while achieving similar results, and it can automatically select high-quality data for scenarios that require data quality improvement.","PeriodicalId":13255,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Services Computing","volume":"18 1","pages":"85-97"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142888936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ARAScaler: Adaptive Resource Autoscaling Scheme Using ETimeMixer for Efficient Cloud-Native Computing","authors":"Byeonghui Jeong;Young-Sik Jeong","doi":"10.1109/TSC.2024.3522815","DOIUrl":"10.1109/TSC.2024.3522815","url":null,"abstract":"The container resource autoscaling techniques offer scalability and continuity for microservices operating in cloud-native computing environments. However, they manage resources inefficiently, causing resource waste and overload under complex workload patterns. In addition, these techniques fail to prevent oscillations caused by dynamic workloads, increasing the operational complexity. Therefore, we propose an adaptive resource autoscaling scheme (ARAScaler) to ensure the stability and resource efficiency of microservices with minimal scaling events. ARAScaler predicts future workloads using enhanced TimeMixer (ETimeMixer) applied with the convolutional method. Additionally, ARAScaler segments the predicted workload to identify burst, nonburst, dynamic, and static states and scales by calculating the optimal number of container instances for each identified state. The offline simulation results using seven cloud-workload trace datasets demonstrate the high prediction accuracy of ETimeMixer and the superior scaling performance of ARAScaler. The ARAScaler achieved a resource utilization of approximately 70% or higher with few updates and recorded the fewest resource overload instances compared to existing container resource autoscaling techniques.","PeriodicalId":13255,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Services Computing","volume":"18 1","pages":"72-84"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142888210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Serv-HU: Service Hand-off for UAV-as-a-Service","authors":"Arijit Roy;Veera Manikantha Rayudu Tummala;Vinay Yadam","doi":"10.1109/TSC.2024.3521684","DOIUrl":"10.1109/TSC.2024.3521684","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, we propose a UAV Service Hand-off scheme (Serv-HU) for the UAV-as-a-Service (UaaS) platform to provide seamless UAV services to the end-users. Traditionally, a service provider of a UaaS platform serves a limited application area due to the unavailability of adequate resources such as UAVs. Failing to deliver the service by the service providers for the requested entire application area by the end-user affects the reputation of the service providers. Consequently, the service delivery for a partial application area impacts the overall business, which is unacceptable for a Service-Oriented Architecture. To address this issue, we design a service hand-off scheme that enables the service providers to serve the entire requested application area by the end users with the help of other available service providers. We consider the presence of two types of service providers – Primary (PSP) and Secondary (SSP) in a UaaS platform. We apply a two-stage approach for the UAV service delivery to the end-users. In the first stage, a PSP optimally selects the SSPs for serving the uncovered application area by the PSP. The end-users request the service from the PSP, and on failing to provide the service for the entire application area, the PSP makes the service available from the optimally selected SSPs. In the second stage, we design an optimal pricing strategy that helps in determining the price charged to the end-users considering the involvement of PSPs and SSPs. We apply the Lagrangian multiplier method and Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) conditions to achieve the outcomes of these two stages. The simulation results depict that the charged price is reduced by <inline-formula><tex-math>$10.3 - 12.7%$</tex-math></inline-formula> while we apply the optimal SSP selection strategy as compared to the random selection of SSPs.","PeriodicalId":13255,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Services Computing","volume":"18 1","pages":"414-426"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142884229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}