Using Domain Specific Hierarchical Good Practice for Ranking Service Compositions

Abstract

We propose a method for ranking the service compositions according to the good practice of each domain. Knowledge about good practice is modeled in a hierarchical manner inspired from Hierarchical Task Networks. In describing the good practice knowledge we give a model for HTN in N3 notation and we enhanced it with an importance value. Each candidate service composition is checked against good practice in a model checking style. A candidate composition is a sequence of services. The candidate composition is compared to the constraints defined in good practice and is considered good if for each simple task the most important constraints are fulfilled.