Service Oriented Architecture-based design of benchmarking testbeds for advanced decision support systems for hotel management
Alfonso Durán Heras, Isabel García Gutiérrez, Teresa Sánchez Chaparro · 2007
Within the context of a multiyear, multiparty research project on yield management-based decision support systems for the hotel sector, this paper analyzes the applicability of benchmarking testbeds for the comparative evaluation of the algorithms proposed in the project. The various functional, organizational and technical requirements that such a testbed would have to meet are studied, as well as their design implications. These requisites are then matched with the traits of alternative development platforms, and the choice of a SOA / Web Services approach is justifi ed. Implications of this choice for the utilization of the testbed for other research projects and potential generalization of this analysis for other application domains are explored.