Distributed Feature Composition: A Virtual Architecture for Telecommunications Services
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Feature interaction: a critical review and considered forecast
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Introduction: Service-oriented computing
Communications of the ACM - Service-oriented computing
Address translation in telecommunication features
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Towards a classification of web service feature interactions
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Maintaining telephone switching software requirements
IEEE Communications Magazine
Web services for communication over IP
IEEE Communications Magazine
Architecting end-to-end convergence of web and Telco services
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications and Services
Websocket enabler: achieving IMS and web services end-to-end convergence
IPTcomm '11 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Principles, Systems and Applications of IP Telecommunications
User-Driven automatic resource retrieval based on natural language request
NLDB'12 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Applications of Natural Language Processing and Information Systems
An open-source platform for converged services
Proceedings of Principles, Systems and Applications on IP Telecommunications
Fully automated resource retrieval in telecommunications and internet converged environments
Information Systems Frontiers
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In the domain of web applications, the service-oriented architecture (SOA) promotes the composition of coarse-grained web services to build more complex web applications using standards such as WS-BPEL. This paradigm encourages software modularity and re-use, language and platform independence, distributedness, and integration across enterprise boundaries. At the same time, in the domain of telecommunications, standards such as the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) architecture and the SIP Servlet API enable the composition of individual SIP applications into complete services, reaping similar benefits. There are also ongoing efforts to integrate the two domains. The ultimate goal is to enable service providers to easily re-use existing services to build new converged web and telephony services that offer the users a rich and seamless experience. However, there are a number of problems associated with composing modular telecom and web services. In this paper we clearly define these problems and explain how approaches to telecom service composition and web services composition are fundamentally different. By way of pointing towards solutions we critically examine a number of existing partial solutions to these problems and discuss how and why they fall short of providing a complete solution. Finally we discuss some future directions that research can take in order to completely solve these problems.