DocumentCode :
1612691
Title :
Personal Preference and Trade-Off Based Additive Manufacturing Web Service Selection
Author :
Modekurthy, Venkata P. ; Fletcher, Kenneth K. ; Liu, Xiaoqing Frank ; Leu, Ming C.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Compute Sci., Missouri Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Rolla, MO, USA
fYear :
2015
Firstpage :
440
Lastpage :
447
Abstract :
The growing number of Additive Manufacturing Web (AMW) services, offered by different providers over the Internet, makes it challenging for consumers to compare these AMW services to select a service of their choice. In addition, it is even more challenging for consumers to compare these AMW services against their personal preferences. This is because, consumers personal preferences on multiple non-functional attributes such as price, material, accuracy and schedule, should be considered for AMW service selection. The decentralized nature of AMW services coupled by the need to consider consumers personal preferences during AMW service selection, requires a system that will serve as a broker between AMW services and consumers. In this paper, we propose a service broker system for AMW services that provides consumers with a single point of access to a large number of AMW services from many additive manufacturing service providers. This broker system also incorporates the first real application of service selection with fuzzy logic based personalized preferences and trade-off. We develop a method to generate fuzzy membership functions for each non-functional attribute. This makes it easy for consumers to specify their fuzzy membership functions. Finally, we present an application case study to demonstrate the feasibility of brokerage in AMW services and also evaluate our method in terms of performance.
Keywords :
Web services; feature selection; fuzzy logic; fuzzy set theory; production engineering computing; rapid prototyping (industrial); AMW service selection; Internet; additive manufacturing Web service selection; consumer personal preference; fuzzy logic; fuzzy membership function; service broker system; Accuracy; Additives; Engines; Manufacturing; Quality of service; Schedules; Web services; Additive Manufacturing Service Broker; Preference; Preference and Trade-off based Service Selection; Trade-off;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Web Services (ICWS), 2015 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
New York, NY
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-7271-8
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ICWS.2015.65
Filename :
7195600
Link To Document :
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