ICSM '02 Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'02)
Empowering the business analyst for on demand computing
IBM Systems Journal
Deriving service variants from business process specifications
COMPUTE '08 Proceedings of the 1st Bangalore Annual Compute Conference
Variation-Oriented Engineering (VOE): Enhancing Reusability of SOA-based Solutions
SCC '08 Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing - Volume 1
Integrated asset analysis framework for model-driven development of SOA based solutions
ICSOC'11 Proceedings of the 2011 international conference on Service-Oriented Computing
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Software service organizations typically develop custom solutions from scratch in each project engagement. This is not a scalable proposition, since it depends too heavily on labor alone. Rather, creating and reusing software "assets" is more scalable and profitable. One prevalent approach to building software solutions is to use service-oriented architecture (SOA) to compose software services to support business processes. In this context, the key to reusing assets is to discover (from existing assets in a portfolio) or derive service variants to meet the requirements of a stated business process specification. To that end, this paper presents our Variation-Oriented Service Design (VOSD) algorithm for the same. Via IBM's Rational Software Architect modeling tool, we also demonstrate the practical usefulness of our algorithm via a prototype implementation in the insurance domain.