Web service e-contract establishment using features

  • Authors:
  • Marcelo Fantinato;Itana Maria de S. Gimenes;Maria Beatriz F. de Toledo

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Computing, University of Campinas, Brazil;Department of Computer Science, University of Maringá, Brazil;Institute of Computing, University of Campinas, Brazil

  • Venue:
  • BPM'06 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Business Process Management
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Electronic contracts describe inter-organizational business processes in terms of supply and consumption of electronic services (commonly Web services). In a given contract domain, it is usually possible to identify a set of well-defined common and variation points. Feature modeling is an ontology-like technique that has been widely used for capturing and managing commonalities and variabilities of product families in the context of software product line. This paper proposes a feature-based approach in order to decrease the complexity in Web service e-contract establishment. The feasibility of the approach is shown by a case study carried out within the telecom context and based on experimental software engineering concepts.