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Modeling and managing variability in process-based service compositions

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Jun HanAuthors Info & Claims

ICSOC'11: Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Service-Oriented Computing

Pages 404 - 420

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25535-9_27

Published: 05 December 2011 Publication History

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Variability in process-based service compositions needs to be explicitly modeled and managed in order to facilitate service/process customization and increase reuse in service/process development. While related work has been able to capture variability and variability dependencies within a composition, these approaches fail to capture variability dependenciesbetween the composition and partner services. Consequently, these approaches cannot address the situation when a composite service is orchestrated from partner services some of which are customizable. In this paper, we propose a feature-based approach that is able to effectively model variability within and across compositions. The approach is supported by a process development methodology that enables the systematic reuse and management of variability. We develop a prototype system supporting extended BPMN 2.0 to demonstrate the feasibility of our approach.

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ICSOC'11: Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Service-Oriented Computing

December 2011

680 pages

ISBN:9783642255342

Editors:
Gerti Kappel
Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems, Vienna University of Technology, Favoritenstraße 9-11, Vienna, Austria
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Zakaria Maamar
College of Information Technology, Zayed University, Favoritenstraße 9-11, Dubai, U.A.E.
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Hamid R. Motahari-Nezhad
College of Information Technology, HP Labs - Services Research Lab, 1501 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA, U.A.E.

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