Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing. 4th International Conference, CollaborateCom 2008, Orlando, FL, USA, November 13-16, 2008, Revised Selected Papers

Research Article

Ontology Support for Managing Top-Down Changes in Composite Services

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-03354-4_55,
        author={Xumin Liu and Athman Bouguettaya},
        title={Ontology Support for Managing Top-Down Changes in Composite Services},
        proceedings={Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing. 4th International Conference, CollaborateCom 2008, Orlando, FL, USA, November 13-16, 2008, Revised Selected Papers},
        proceedings_a={COLLABORATECOM},
        year={2012},
        month={5},
        keywords={top-down changes change management composite service ontology service oriented enterprises},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-642-03354-4_55}
    }
    
  • Xumin Liu
    Athman Bouguettaya
    Year: 2012
    Ontology Support for Managing Top-Down Changes in Composite Services
    COLLABORATECOM
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03354-4_55
Xumin Liu1,*, Athman Bouguettaya2,*
  • 1: Virginia Tech
  • 2: CSIRO ICT Center
*Contact email: xuminl@vt.edu, Athman.Bouguettaya@csiro.au

Abstract

We present a foundational framework to manage changes in composite services. The framework takes as input a change specification and reacts to the change in an automatic and efficient manner. We propose a service ontology that provides systematic support for the change management process. We also propose a set of algorithms that enable us to efficiently query the proposed service ontology. With the ontology support, desired service functionalities can be accurately, efficiently retrieved and composed to react to changes. We use a Service-Oriented Enterprise (SOE) as an application of composite services to motivate and illustrate the proposed solution. We evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithms with a set of experiments.