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Chapter and Conference Paper
Time-Aware Customer Preference Sensing and Satisfaction Prediction in a Dynamic Service Market
In the dynamic service market, massive services and variations of their Quality of Services (QoS) and service contract make it difficult for customers to acquire the information of all the services comprehens...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
WiCare: A Synthesized Healthcare Service System Based on WiFi Signals
To help the independent-living elders or patients nursed in a single isolated ward, we propose a proof-of-concept prototype named WiCare, a non-intrusive and device-free healthcare service system based on ubiq...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Empirical Study on the Interface and Feature Evolutions of Mobile Apps
We make an empirical study on App evolution, especially on inter-App interface evolution and inner-App feature evolution, both from externally observable exhibitions of Apps. Interfaces are extracted from .apk...
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Integrating POMDP and SARSA( \(\lambda \) ) for Service Composition with Incomplete Information
As a powerful computing paradigm for constructing complex distributed applications, service composition is usually addressed as a planning problem since the goal is to optimize a path for combining services to...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Studying Social Collaboration Features and Patterns in Service Crowdsourcing
Service crowdsourcing follows typical social collaboration processes with stochastic and dynamic characteristics. In this paper, the “bug-fix” social collaboration on GitHub is used as a case scenario of crowd...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Uncertain Assessment Compatible Incentive Mechanism for Eliciting Continual and Truthful Assessments of Cloud Services
The evaluation of dynamic performance of cloud services relies on continual assessments from cloud users, e.g., ordinary consumers and testing parties. In order to elicit continual and truthful assessments, an...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Prediction of Web Services Evolution
Web service interfaces are considered as one of the critical components of a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and they represent contracts between web service providers and clients (subscribers). These inte...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Bi-level Identification of Web Service Defects
Successful Web services must evolve to remain relevant (e.g. requirements update, bugs fix, etc.), but this process of evolution increases complexity and can cause the Web service interface design to decay and...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Robust Approach to Finding Trustworthy Influencer in Trust-Oriented E-Commerce Environments
With the recognition of the significance of OSNs (Online Social Networks) in the recommendation of services in e-commerce, there are more and more e-commerce platform being combined with OSNs, forming social e-co...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Context as a Service: Realizing Internet of Things-Aware Processes for the Independent Living of the Elderly
The Internet of Things (IoT) embodies the evolution from systems that link digital documents to systems that relate digital information with real-world physical items. It provides the infrastructure to transpa...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Disruption-Free Link Wake-Up Optimisation for Energy Aware Networks
Energy efficiency has become a major research topic in the Internet community as a result of unprecedented rise in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector. One typical approach towards energy...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Evaluation and Improvement of Generic-Emulating DPA Attacks
At CT-RSA 2014, Whitnall, Oswald and Standaert gave the impossibility result that no generic DPA strategies (i.e., without any a priori knowledge about the leakage characteristics) can recover secret information ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Integrating Gaussian Process with Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Service Composition
Service composition offers a powerful software paradigm to build complex and value-added applications by exploiting a service oriented architecture. However, the frequent changes in the internal and external e...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Transient-Steady Effect Attack on Block Ciphers
A new Transient-Steady Effect attack on block ciphers called TSE attack is presented in this paper. The concept of transient-steady effect denotes the phenomenon that the output of a combinational circuit keep...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Social Context-Aware Trust Prediction in Social Networks
Online social networks have been widely used for a large number of activities in recent years. Utilizing social network information to infer or predict trust among people to recommend services from trustworthy...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Evaluating Cloud Users’ Credibility of Providing Subjective Assessment or Objective Assessment for Cloud Services
This paper proposes a novel model for evaluating cloud users’ credibility of providing subjective assessment or objective assessment for cloud services. In contrast to prior studies, cloud users in our model a...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Collaboratively Solving the Traveling Salesman Problem with Limited Disclosure
With increasing resource constraints, optimization is necessary to make the best use of scarce resources. Given the ubiquitous connectivity and availability of information, collaborative optimization problems ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Peeking through the BitTorrent Seedbox Hosting Ecosystem
In this paper, we propose a lightweight method for detecting and classifying BitTorrent content providers with a minimal amount of resources. While heavy methodologies are typically used (which require long te...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Integrating On-policy Reinforcement Learning with Multi-agent Techniques for Adaptive Service Composition
In service computing, online services and the Internet environment are evolving over time, which poses a challenge to service composition for adaptivity. In addition, high efficiency should be maintained when ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
How Do Developers React to RESTful API Evolution?
With the rapid adoption of REpresentational State Transfer (REST), more software organizations expose their applications as RESTful web APIs and client code developers integrate RESTful APIs into their applica...