Operating Guidelines - an Automata-Theoretic Foundation for the Service-Oriented Architecture

  • Authors:
  • Peter Massuthe;Karsten Schmidt

  • Affiliations:
  • Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin Institut fur Informatik, Germany;Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin Institut fur Informatik, Germany

  • Venue:
  • QSIC '05 Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Quality Software
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

In the service-oriented architecture (SOA), we distinguish three roles of service owners: service providers, service requesters, and service brokers. Each service provider publishes information to the broker about how requesters can interact with its service. Thus, the broker can assign a fitting service provider to a querying requester. We propose the information published to the broker to be operating guidelines. Operating guidelines are essentially communication instructions for the service requester. We present an automata-theoretic approach that is centered around operating guidelines and is capable of implementing all tasks arising in the SOA.