{"title":"Energy-effective IoT Services in Balanced Edge-Cloud Collaboration Systems","authors":"Zhengzhe Xiang, Shuiguang Deng, Yuhang Zheng, Dongjing Wang, J. Taheri, Zengwei Zheng","doi":"10.1109/ICWS53863.2021.00040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICWS53863.2021.00040","url":null,"abstract":"The rapid development of the Internet-of-Things (IoT) makes it convenient to sense and collect real-world information with different kinds of widely distributed sensors. With plenty of web services providing diverse functions on the cloud, the collected information can be sufficiently used to complete complex tasks after being uploaded. However, the latency brought by long-distance communication and network congestion limits the development of IoT platforms. A feasible approach to solve this problem is to establish an edge-cloud collaboration (ECC) system based on the multi-access edge computing (MEC) paradigm where the collected information can be refined with the services deployed on nearby edge servers. However, as the edge servers are resource-limited, we should be more careful in allocating the edge resource to services, as well as designing the traffic scheduling strategy. In this paper, we investigated the edge-cloud cooperation mechanism of service provisioning in ECC systems, and to that end, proposed an energy-consumption model for it; we also proposed a performance model and balancing model to quantify the running state of ECC systems. Based on these, we further formulated the energy-effective ECC system optimization problem as a joint optimization problem whose decision variables are the resource allocation strategy and traffic scheduling strategy. With the convexity of this problem proved, we proposed an algorithm to solve it and conducted a series of experiments to evaluate its performance. The results showed that our approach can improve at least 4.3 % of the performance compared with representative baselines.","PeriodicalId":213320,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125755642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"MatTrip: Multi-functional Attention-based Neural Network for Semantic Travel Route Recommendation","authors":"Chenxiao Yang, Jiale Zhang, Xiaofeng Gao, Guihai Chen","doi":"10.1109/ICWS53863.2021.00030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICWS53863.2021.00030","url":null,"abstract":"Travel route recommendation aims to recommend a sequence of point of interests (POIs) for visitors based on their personal interests. Previous studies utilize user interest features and POI spatial information to provide travel route recommendation service. However, most of them fail to consider the implicit information in user traveling patterns, which is the key to improve recommendation quality. Additionally, few deep learning based travel route recommendation systems provide comprehensive trip planning functionalities, which is critical to improve the user experience. To alleviate these two problems, we propose a multi-functional attention-based neural network for route recommendation (named MatTrip). We first introduce an encoder-decoder structure with a novel dual bi-directional LSTM encoder as the sequence generation model to learn other users' traveling records and generates a semantic travel route based on user preference and geographical features of start/end POI. Next, multiple user-specific functionalities are supported in MatTrip by grid beam search. The functionalities include weather dependency, POI opening hours, restricted sequence length, mandatory POIs, and dynamic route revision. In addition, MatTrip adopts an online learning approach to learn from user deviation behaviors to improve recommendation performance. Experiments on two real-world datasets show that our model achieves a 20.98% improvement in performance, compared with state-of-arts.","PeriodicalId":213320,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125843055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Video Quality and Popularity-aware Video Caching in Content Delivery Networks","authors":"Yijun Sun, Zehua Guo, Songshi Dou, Yuanqing Xia","doi":"10.1109/ICWS53863.2021.00088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICWS53863.2021.00088","url":null,"abstract":"Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a popular service to accelerate object transmission by dynamically caching popular objects at cache points near users. Existing video caching schemes for CDN do not consider some important components of Quality of Experience (QoE). In this paper, we jointly consider video quality and popularity to design a new QoE metric called Video Hit Experience (VHE) and propose an efficient video caching algorithm named Hit ExpeRience-based videO caching (HERO) to improve VHE. Preliminary results show that HERO outperforms existing solutions.","PeriodicalId":213320,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS)","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124928390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Instance-Frequency-Weighted Regularized, Nonnegative and Adaptive Latent Factorization of Tensors for Dynamic QoS Analysis","authors":"Hao Wu, Xin Luo","doi":"10.1109/ICWS53863.2021.00077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICWS53863.2021.00077","url":null,"abstract":"Temporally dynamic QoS data are commonly encountered in large-scale cloud services environments. They can be quantized into a high-dimensional and incomplete (HDI) tensor defined on the user×service×time. Despite its HDI nature, it contains various temporal patterns highly helpful in representing involved users and services. A latent factorization of tensors (LFT) model is able to discover such patterns from an HDI tensor, while its model generality cannot be ensured due to the complex structure and incomplete data of an HDI tensor. To address this issues, this paper proposes an Instance-frequency-weighted regularized, Nonnegative and Adaptive LFT (INAL) model with three-fold ideas: a) adopting the principle of data density-oriented modeling to reduce the computation and storage complexity; b) refining the regularization effects on each latent factor with its relevant instance-frequency for illustrating the imbalanced distribution of known data in an HDI tensor; and c) making its hyper-parameter self-adaptive via incorporating the principle of a particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm into the training process, thereby achieving a highly adaptive and practical model. Empirical studies on two dynamic QoS datasets from real applications demonstrate that compared with state-of-the-art models, the proposed model achieves significant gain in prediction accuracy for unobserved dynamic QoS data and achieves highly competitive computational efficiency.","PeriodicalId":213320,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130844069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xin Wang, Xiao Liu, Li Li, Xiao Chen, Jin Liu, Hao Wu
{"title":"Time-aware User Modeling with Check-in Time Prediction for Next POI Recommendation","authors":"Xin Wang, Xiao Liu, Li Li, Xiao Chen, Jin Liu, Hao Wu","doi":"10.1109/ICWS53863.2021.00028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICWS53863.2021.00028","url":null,"abstract":"POI (point-of-interest) recommendation as an important type of location-based services has received increasing attention with the rise of location-based social networks. Although significant efforts have been dedicated to learning and recommending users' next POIs based on their historical mobility traces, there still lacks consideration of the discrepancy of users' check-in time preferences and the inherent relationships between POIs and check-in times. To fill this gap, this paper proposes a novel recommendation method which applies multi-task learning over historical user mobility traces known to be sparse. Specifically, we design a cross-graph neural network to obtain time-aware user modeling and control how much information flows across different semantic spaces, which makes up the inadequate representation of existing user modeling methods. In addition, we design a check-in time prediction task to learn users' activities from a time perspective and learn internal patterns between POIs and their check-in times, aiming to reduce the search space to overcome the data sparsity problem. Comprehensive experiments on two real-world public datasets demonstrate that our proposed method outperforms several representative POI recommendation methods with 8.93% to 20.21 % improvement on Recall@1, 5, 10, and 9.25% to 17.56% improvement on Mean Reciprocal Rank.","PeriodicalId":213320,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130899678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Program Committee ICWS 2021","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/icws53863.2021.00009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/icws53863.2021.00009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":213320,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121350698","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Generic Method to Rapidly Release Internet Services on Commercial Platforms","authors":"Xinyu Zhou, Zhiyong Feng, Jianmao Xiao, Shizhan Chen, Xiao Xue, Hongyue Wu","doi":"10.1109/ICWS53863.2021.00055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICWS53863.2021.00055","url":null,"abstract":"The prosperous development of Internet services such as O2O, IoT, and Web API has brought new vitality to service commercial platforms. However, these services involve online and offline business, which are widely diverse without a unified design and development standard. In addition, Internet services update frequently, which leads to repeat releases on commercial platforms. Therefore, in this paper, we present a generic method to rapidly release Internet services on commercial platforms. The method uses a highly abstract metamodel to express service business extensively and realizes service functions by executing metamodel objects. This method has wide versatility. Meanwhile, it extends the DevOps theory to solve the frequent changes of service functions during use after the release. Finally, we verified the usability of this method in the elderly healthcare domain.","PeriodicalId":213320,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133703588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"2021 IEEE World Congress on Services: Message from Congress General Chairs","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/icws53863.2021.00006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/icws53863.2021.00006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":213320,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131723131","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mining Temporal Dependency among Proactive Data Services and Its Delivery to System-level Anomaly Prediction","authors":"Chen Liu, Xiaoqi Li","doi":"10.1109/ICWS53863.2021.00090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICWS53863.2021.00090","url":null,"abstract":"Motivated by the requirement of system-level anomaly prediction in the running of industrial processes, this paper proposes a new algorithm to mine temporal dependencies among services, by discovering frequent occurrence patterns among service outputted events. With temporal dependencies, the paper also explores a new type of graph-based service linking approach. These approaches are delivered to prediction of system-level anomalies in some real scenarios.","PeriodicalId":213320,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125130394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Haomai Shi, Hanchuan Xu, Xiaofei Xu, Zhongjie Wang
{"title":"Service Composition Considering QoS Fluctuations and Anchoring Cost","authors":"Haomai Shi, Hanchuan Xu, Xiaofei Xu, Zhongjie Wang","doi":"10.1109/ICWS53863.2021.00056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICWS53863.2021.00056","url":null,"abstract":"Traditional service composition focuses on how to construct optimal composite solutions that satisfy end-to-end QoS constraints raised by users. Although there have been rich well-recognized service composition approaches, most of them ignore an obvious phenomenon: users have to go through a cognition process on unacquainted services to gradually get familiar with these services, and directly using unacquainted services in composite solutions might lead to potential risk on user experiences. QoS fluctuations of services might affect the cognition process to some extent, too. In this paper, we define a new concept anchoring cost to measure such degree of unfamiliarity and give its measurement in terms of historical service usage records and QoS fluctuations. A multi-objective optimization model considering QoS fluctuations and anchoring cost is introduced: besides pursuing the optimality of QoS attributes, to reduce the risk that is caused by importing services with higher anchoring cost into composite solutions is another optimization objective. A set of Pareto-optimal non-dominated composite solutions are obtained by the NSGA-II algorithm and different types of users in terms of risk aversion (e.g., balanced, conservative, risk-taking) may choose their preferred solutions from them. Experiments are conducted on real QoS datasets in three scenarios to demonstrate the rationality and significance of the proposed approach. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time that cognition cost is incorporated into the service composition problem.","PeriodicalId":213320,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130471468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}