Abstract
Accurate Quality of Service (QoS) prediction of service is a key measure to accomplish successful applications such as QoS-aware service recommendation and composition in Internet of Things (IoT) environments. The key of this task is to consider contextual information like geographic location, network address and type of service, since they have subtle but powerful effects on QoS of IoT services. Recently proposed context-aware QoS prediction for IoT services follow two general paradigms: clustering contextual information for calculating similarity between users and services or integrating contextual information by extending latent factor models. However, the simple clustering contextual information or learning the latent feature of contextual information do not go much further to discover complex and intricate user–service interaction patterns. To this end, we propose a context-aware feature interaction modeling (CFM) approach for IoT services to perform QoS prediction, considering context as an additional feature similar to users and services and modeling their interactions. The proposed method can capture both low-order and high-order feature interactions using contextual information and user's invoked records, which consists of three phases: (1) learn low-order feature interactions by decomposing the sparse user–service QoS matrix with factorization machine; (2) learn high-order feature interactions explicitly and implicitly with a multilayer perceptron and deep cross network; (3) aggregate the output of low-order and high-order feature interactions with a parametric-matrix-based fusion. Experimental results on a large-scale QoS dataset demonstrate that the proposed method consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in terms of various evaluation metrics.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 173-185 |
Number of pages | 13 |
Journal | Future Generation Computer Systems |
Volume | 137 |
Early online date | 4 Aug 2022 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Dec 2022 |
Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2022 Elsevier B.V.
Funding
This work was supported in part by the Top Young Scholar of Zhejiang Province “Ten Thousands Talent Program” , Top Young Scholar of Hangzhou “Ten Thousands Talent Program” , National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 62072402 , in part by the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant LGN20F020003 , and in part by Hangzhou Science and Technology Bureau under Grant 20191203B37 and the Intelligent Plant Factory of Zhejiang Province Engineering Lab .
Keywords
- Context-aware qoS prediction
- Deep neural network
- Feature interaction
- IoT services