Web Service Response Time Prediction Using HMM and Bayesian Network

Abstract

Selection of suitable and efficient services by service consumers turns out to be a herculean task with the availability of abundant functionally similar services over the Web. In this scenario, quality of services being offered plays a crucial role in service selection by consumers. Response time has been a key factor influencing a consumer for selection of a Web service. Predicting it has been a major challenge for researchers. In this paper, we propose an approach for prediction of response time of Web services using hidden Markov model (HMM) and Bayesian networks. © Springer India 2015.