Finding service compositions in complex homecare service network
by Qi Wang; Chunshan Li; Dianhui Chu
International Journal of Services Technology and Management (IJSTM), Vol. 25, No. 5/6, 2019

Abstract: With the development of pension service industry, there have been numerous homecare services. The demands of the elderly are becoming increasingly complex and a single service is difficult to meet the demands of the elderly, so homecare service composition becomes particularly important. According to the homecare service features, this paper builds a complex network model with homecare services as nodes and relationship between services as edges. Then, the search strategies are used to search in the complex network to obtain service composition. This method can find high quality service composition which meets the complex demands of the elderly.

Online publication date: Fri, 30-Aug-2019

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