Aggregation and Adaptation of Web Services

Razvan Andrei Popescu

ISBN 10: 3639437535 / ISBN 13: 9783639437539

Published by AV Akademikerverlag Jul 2012, 2012

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Revision with unchanged content. In this book we define a methodology for the semi-automated aggregation and adaptation of Web services capable of suitably overcoming semantic and behaviour mismatches in view of business process integration within and across organisational boundaries. We tackle the aggregation and adaptation of services described by service contracts, which consist of signature (WSDL), ontology information (OWL), and behaviour specification (YAWL). We first describe an aggregation technique that automatically generates contracts of composite services satisfying (behavioural) client requests from a registry of service contracts. Further on, we present a behaviour-aware adaptation technique that supports the customisation of services to fulfil client requests. The adaptation technique can be used to adapt the behaviour of services to satisfy both functional and behavioural requests. We support the generation of service contracts from real-world service descriptions by introducing a pattern-based compositional translator for the automated generation of YAWL workflows from BPEL business processes. In this way, we pave the way for the formal analysis, aggregation, and adaptation of BPEL processes. 216 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Aggregation and Adaptation of Web Services
• Publisher: AV Akademikerverlag Jul 2012
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3639437535
• ISBN 13: 9783639437539
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 220W x 150H x 13D millimeters 220 millimeters width by 150 millimeters height by 13 millimeters depth
• Weight: 340 grams

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Synopsis

Revision with unchanged content. In this book we define a methodology for the semi-automated aggregation and adaptation of Web services capable of suitably overcoming semantic and behaviour mismatches in view of business process integration within and across organisational boundaries. We tackle the aggregation and adaptation of services described by service contracts, which consist of signature (WSDL), ontology information (OWL), and behaviour specification (YAWL). We first describe an aggregation technique that automatically generates contracts of composite services satisfying (behavioural) client requests from a registry of service contracts. Further on, we present a behaviour-aware adaptation technique that supports the customisation of services to fulfil client requests. The adaptation technique can be used to adapt the behaviour of services to satisfy both functional and behavioural requests. We support the generation of service contracts from real-world service descriptions by introducing a pattern-based compositional translator for the automated generation of YAWL workflows from BPEL business processes. In this way, we pave the way for the formal analysis, aggregation, and adaptation of BPEL processes.

About the Author

The author received his B.Sc. from the University "Politehnica" of Bucharest (in 2003) and his Ph.D. from the University of Pisa (in 2006). He is currently a postdoc researcher in Pisa. His research interests include service-oriented computing (Web service discovery, aggregation, and adaptation) and peer-to-peer systems.