Support for the business motivation model in the WS-Policy4MASC language and MiniZnMASC middleware

Authors:
Qinghua Lu;Vladimir Tosic;Paul L. Bannerman
Affiliations:
NICTA, Australian Technology Park, Sydney, NSW, Australia;NICTA, Australian Technology Park, Sydney, NSW, Australia;NICTA, Australian Technology Park, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Venue:
ICSOC'11 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Service-Oriented Computing
Year:
2011

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Abstract

The WS-Policy4MASC language and MiniZnMASC middleware for policy-driven management of service-oriented systems enable making IT system management decisions that maximize diverse business value metrics (e.g., profit, customer satisfaction). However, their past support for alignment with high-level business considerations was weak. Therefore, we introduce a new extension of WS-Policy4MASC that specifies the key concepts from the Business Motivation Model (BMM) industrial standard for modeling business intent. These concepts include hierarchies of ends (e.g., goals) and means (e.g., strategies). We also present and illustrate new decision making algorithms that leverage information in the extended WS-Policy4MASC to align run-time IT system management decisions with business considerations.