Article: A location-aware matrix factorisation approach for collaborative web service QoS prediction Journal: International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (IJCSE) 2019 Vol.19 No.3 pp.354 - 367 Abstract: Predicting the unknown QoS is often required due to the fact that most users would have invoked only a small fraction of web services. Previous prediction methods benefit from mining neighbourhood interest from explicit user QoS ratings. However, the implicitly existing but significant location information that would potentially tackle the data sparsity problem is overlooked. In this paper, we propose a unified matrix factorisation model that fully capitalises on the advantages of both location-aware neighbourhood and latent factor approach. We first develop a multiview-based neighbourhood selection method that clusters neighbours from the views of both geographical distance and rating similarity relationships. Then a personalised prediction model is built up by transforming the wisdom of neighbourhoods. Experimental results have demonstrated that our method can achieve higher prediction accuracy than other competitive approaches and as well as better alleviating the data sparsity issue. Inderscience Publishers - linking academia, business and industry through research

Title: A location-aware matrix factorisation approach for collaborative web service QoS prediction

Authors: Zhen Chen; Limin Shen; Dianlong You; Chuan Ma; Feng Li

Addresses: College of Information Science and Engineering, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao 066004, China ' College of Information Science and Engineering, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao 066004, China ' College of Information Science and Engineering, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao 066004, China ' College of Information Science and Engineering, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao 066004, China ' College of Computer Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110000, China

Abstract: Predicting the unknown QoS is often required due to the fact that most users would have invoked only a small fraction of web services. Previous prediction methods benefit from mining neighbourhood interest from explicit user QoS ratings. However, the implicitly existing but significant location information that would potentially tackle the data sparsity problem is overlooked. In this paper, we propose a unified matrix factorisation model that fully capitalises on the advantages of both location-aware neighbourhood and latent factor approach. We first develop a multiview-based neighbourhood selection method that clusters neighbours from the views of both geographical distance and rating similarity relationships. Then a personalised prediction model is built up by transforming the wisdom of neighbourhoods. Experimental results have demonstrated that our method can achieve higher prediction accuracy than other competitive approaches and as well as better alleviating the data sparsity issue.

Keywords: service computing; web service; QoS prediction; neighbourhood selection; matrix factorisation; data sparsity; location awareness; geographical distance; rating similarity.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCSE.2019.101345

International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering, 2019 Vol.19 No.3, pp.354 - 367

Received: 04 Aug 2016
Accepted: 06 Feb 2017
Published online: 05 Aug 2019 *

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