Research on GRU-based credibility prediction of Web services

Abstract

The service system is based on the SOA architecture, and its component services are usually deployed by third-party service providers in an open network environment. This openness also brings confusion to service system while extending functions. Unavailability of a single service may result in the unavailability of the entire service system. This paper uses Web service credibility as a standard to measure whether Web service is available. Web service credibility is calculated by 12 factors that affect quality of Web service. According to time series of Web service credibility in the past, credibility at next time period can be predicted. This paper proposes a Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) algorithm which uses grid search algorithm and adaptive moment estimation (Adam) to solve above problem. In this algorithm, grid search algorithm is used to get the best hyper-parameters of network and Adam is used to correct the gradient in the gradient descent. Finally, based on a large number of real Web services, the GRU prediction algorithm is verified by experiments. Experimental results show that the GRU algorithm has higher prediction accuracy than other methods in Web service credibility prediction.