Title: Finding service compositions in complex homecare service network

Authors: Qi Wang; Chunshan Li; Dianhui Chu

Addresses: Department of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, China ' Department of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, China ' Department of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

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.

Keywords: homecare service; complex network; R programming language; association rules; service composition; search strategy; services technology.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSTM.2019.101902

International Journal of Services Technology and Management, 2019 Vol.25 No.5/6, pp.515 - 529

Received: 25 Jul 2017
Accepted: 03 Oct 2017
Published online: 30 Aug 2019 *

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