A Hybrid Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for Service Selection Problem in the Cloud

With the growing number of alternative services in the cloud environment, users have put forward new requirements to solve the service dynamic selection problem quickly and efficiently. In this paper, an evaluation model of service process which considers concurrent requests and service association is proposed. This model evaluates the service process from three dimensions which are functional quality dimension, non-functional quality dimension and transactional dimension. To solve the service selection problem efficiently, we first design a novel coding strategy of particle, and then propose an approach based on hybrid particle swarm optimization algorithm which combines the crossover and mutation operators of genetic algorithm. The experimental results show that our proposed approach is feasible and effective.