ALIVE: A Framework for Flexible and Adaptive Service Coordination

J S C Lam, W W Vasconcelos, F Guerin, D Corsar, A Chorley, T J Norman, J Vázquez-Salceda, S Panagiotidi, R Confalonieri, I Gomez, S Hidalgo, S A Napagao, J C Nieves, M Palau Roig, L Ceccaroni, H Aldewereld, V Dignum, F Dignum, L Penserini, Julian PadgetMarina De Vos, Dimitris Andreou, Owen Cliffe, A Staikopoulos, R Popescu, S Clarke, P Sergeant, C Reed, T Quillinan, K Nieuwenhuis

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Abstract

There is a large body of research on software services, but the issues of communication and dynamic reconfiguration have received little attention, as have adaptation to environment and dynamic combination of service building blocks into new applications. Here, we present the approach of the FP7 ALIVE project to the use of formal models of coordination and organisation mechanisms to deliver a flexible, high-level means to describe the structure of interactions between services in the environment. Our aim is to create a framework for services engineering for "live" open systems of active services. We propose to build on the current activities in service-oriented engineering by defining three levels: (i) An organisational level models the organisational structure of executing and interlinked services and the context around them. (ii) A coordination level provides flexible ways to model interaction between the services. (iii) These two levels connect with existing (semantic)Web services, which contain semantic descriptions to make components aware of their social context and of the rules of engagement with other services.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEngineering Societies in the Agents World X
Place of PublicationHeidelberg
PublisherSpringer
Pages236-239
Number of pages4
Volume5881
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2009
Event10th International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents World X - Utrecht, Netherlands
Duration: 18 Nov 200820 Nov 2008

Conference

Conference10th International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents World X
Abbreviated titleESAW 2009
Country/TerritoryNetherlands
CityUtrecht
Period18/11/0820/11/08

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