An adaptive key selection method for the multilevel index model for effective service management in the cloud.

MULTILEVEL models; ADDITION (Mathematics); UTOPIAS; ABSTRACTING & indexing services

SUMMARY: The growing number of services processed and stored in the cloud has led to difficulties in managing and discovering the required services efficiently. Multilevel index model is an efficient method to manage and retrieve services in service repositories. When adding a new service to a multilevel index model, a key needs to be selected for the service, but existing key selection methods cannot adapt to the situation that hot services change over time. To address this problem, this article proposes an adaptive key selection method to improve the efficiency of service retrieval. However, the service addition operation of the adaptive key selection method is inefficient in the multilevel index model. For this reason, this article improves the multilevel index model by introducing local equivalence partition. This indexing model improves the service addition efficiency of the adaptive key selection method without affecting the service retrieval efficiency. It is experimentally demonstrated that the retrieval and addition efficiencies of the adaptive key selection method are close to the ideal state optimum under the multilevel index model with local equivalence partitioning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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