Alternative representations for end user composition of service-based systems

  • Authors:
  • Usman Wajid;Abdallah Namoun;Nikolay Mehandjiev

  • Affiliations:
  • Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester;Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester;Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester

  • Venue:
  • IS-EUD'11 Proceedings of the Third international conference on End-user development
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Service composition is a process of developing service-based applications that combine the functionality and features from multiple service providers in a unified solution. In this paper we report on a study aimed to gauge users' views and perceptions about traditional service composition approaches (such as control flow and data flow-based composition approaches) versus a system assisted composition approach. User preferences and opinions are obtained from a set of focus groups that aimed at exploring the mental model of end-users about the way they would prefer to develop service-based applications. The results of user studies are being used in the design of an easy to use service-based application development tool in the EC funded SOA4All project.