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Semantic Service Management and Orchestration for Adaptive and Evolving Processes

Authors:
Johannes Fähndrich
Tobias Küster
Nils Masuch

Keywords: Semantic Service Matching; Automated Service Composition; BPMN Processes; OWL-S.

Abstract:
Introducing adaptiveness into service compositions allows for a next generation of services, which adapt to their context of use and posses self-* properties like self-healing and self-configuring. However, the development of adaptive and flexible services is challenging and lacks tool support. For this next step in service development there are a multitude of requirements to be met: a service discovery needs to keep the available services up-to-date, a semantic layer needs special development resources to introduce interoperability, ontologies need to be managed and merged, a service selection mechanism has to find the fitting service for a context out of a vast amount of service advertisements, and runtime components need to surveil the execution of such a service composition. In this paper, we review multiple projects, in which those components have been subject to research, and we present our own approach of a semi-automatic development methodology for adaptive service compositions and finally discuss future challenges.

Pages: 75 to 88

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2016. Used with permission.

Publication date: December 31, 2016

Published in: journal

ISSN: 1942-2652