Service composition

Electronic journals are both big and clever, it seems. It's also very useful to be working from within the library, and thus gaining instant access to said journals from my own laptop: technology is a marvellous thing!

I've started looking into service composition techniques now, and they're looking to be really quite a complex beastie, particularly when you begin to factor in dynamic service composition which, for my sins, is what I'm attempting to research. Obviously, when you have a group of x services that can e combined in a variety of orders to achieve a variety of results, searches to try and combine them are going to need to be heuristic to some degree: the mind-boggling number of combinations rapidly rules out a brute-force search for all but the smallest number of systems. However, the number of combinations and techniques available for a heuristic search is also beginning to hurt my brain ever so slightly.

Fortunately, it appears that not many people have looked into the method that I'd like to look at (genetic algorithms). Unfortunately, this means that I'll have to start this all from scratch!