A Business Entity Correlation Discovery Method between Cloud Services in Cloud Manufacturing System

Abstract

In order to overcome the bottlenecks of traditional network manufacturing, a new service-oriented manufacturing model, i.e., cloud manufacturing (CMfg), is proposed currently. Cloud service composition (CSC), which can realize the added value of cloud service (CS), is the core to implement CMfg. Considering that there always exist business entity correlations among CSs, so how to find the business entity correlation between two CSs and apply them to CSC is a key issue. This paper presents the formalized description for business entity correlation, and designs discovery algorithms to find business entity correlation between two CSs. A simulation experiment indicates the advantage of considering correlation discovery.