@inproceedings{42bc70b8e4bf46a0aa7fbfc6daa18079,
title = "Automatic propagation of user inputs in service composition for end-users",
abstract = "End-users conduct various on-line activities. Quite often they re-visit websites and use services to perform repeated activities, such as on-line shopping. The end-users are required to enter the same information into various web services to accomplish such repeated tasks. Typing redundant information repetitively into such services negatively impacts the user experience. In this study, we propose an approach to prevent end-users from such unnecessary interruption. Our approach propagates user inputs across services by linking similar input and output parameters. Our approach also pre-fills values to the input parameters which could not be filled by the values from other input or output parameters. We propose a meta-data model for storing user inputs and an Input Parameter Context Model for identifying similar input or output parameters. We have implemented our approach and evaluated it on the real world services through an empirical study. Our overall approach can reduce on average 37% of input parameters through the execution of composed services.",
keywords = "Information reuse, Input parameter pre-filling, Service composition",
author = "Shaohua Wang and Bipin Upadhyaya and Ying Zou and Iman Keivanloo and Joanna Ng and Tinny Ng",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2014 IEEE.; 2014 21st IEEE International Conference on Web Services, ICWS 2014 ; Conference date: 27-06-2014 Through 02-07-2014",
year = "2014",
doi = "10.1109/ICWS.2014.23",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings - 2014 IEEE International Conference on Web Services, ICWS 2014",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "73--80",
editor = "{De Roure}, David and Bhavani Thuraisingham and Jia Zhang",
booktitle = "Proceedings - 2014 IEEE International Conference on Web Services, ICWS 2014",
address = "United States",
}