Towards process-based composition of self-managing service-oriented systems

  • Authors:
  • Min'an Tan;Yan Liu;Liming Zhu

  • Affiliations:
  • University of New South Wales and NICTA NSW, NSW, Australia;NICTA NSW, NSW, Australia;NICTA NSW, NSW, Australia

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on Systems development in SOA environments
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Loose coupling and preserving safe changes are two key criteria for composing self-managing services. Composition of adaptive control components with business services without interfering with the original service operations is complicated by the dynamic and highly distributed nature of service-oriented systems. Essentially, encapsulating control logic into abstract logical models enables a clear separation of concerns, with states and transitions indicating the logical control flow. The challenge is to seamlessly integrate these models with services and their host infrastructure as a unified self-managing environment. In this paper, we present an architectural solution towards process-based composition and coordination of self-managing services. This architecture framework leverages business process models to produce declarative and executable control models. We discuss the problem context and outline the research challenges of such an approach.