QoS-Centric Diversified Web Service Recommendation Based on Personalized Determinantal Point Process

With the popularity and widespread adoption of the SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture), the number of Web services has increased exponentially. Users tend to use online services for their daily business and software development needs. With the large number of Web service candidates, recommending desirable Web services that meet users’ personalized QoS (Quality of Service) requirements becomes a challenging research issue, as the QoS preference is usually difficult to satisfy for users, i.e., the QoS preference is uncertain. To solve this problem, some recent works have aimed to recommend QoS-diversified services to enhance the probability of fulfilling the user’s latent QoS preferences. However, the existing QoS-diversified service recommendation methods recommend services with a uniform diversity degree for different users, while the personalized diversity preference requirements are not considered. To this end, this paper proposes to mine a user’s diversity preference from the their service invocation history and provides a Web service recommendation algorithm, named PDPP (Personalized Determinantal Point Process), through which a personalized service recommendation list with preferred diversity is generated for the user. Comprehensive experimental results show that the proposed approach can provide personalized and diversified Web services while ensuring the overall accuracy of the recommendation results.