A real-world service mashup platform based on data integration, information synthesis, and knowledge fusion

Abstract

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) provides a flexible IT infrastructure in order to deal with global competition. However, real-world services change their architectures and functions frequently. This work uses data integration, information synthesis, and knowledge fusion to analyze SOA evolution and complexity. A quantificational approach is provided to estimate the change effects on a service-oriented system. We established a cloud service community to provide rich cloud services and a service mashup platform that connects API service providers and service users. The platform user can invoke all API services on the platform without jumping to the third-party website. The platform users can filter and accept the services recommended by the platform, and also freely compose the services which are real-world services. Data integration, information synthesis, and knowledge fusion are applied to mashups that users constructed, helping users avoid complexity and unreliability that is our objective. We also showed that our method achieved significant quantitative results.