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Laga, Nassim. "Service-oriented computing from the user perspective." Phd thesis, Institut National des Télécommunications, 2010. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00624380.
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The last decade has attracted lot of research work in service-oriented computing (soc), giving raise to standardized architectures, protocols, and technologies that enable developers to easily expose and reuse services. however, these technologies do not fully consider the users as potential actors in the creation of services based on existing ones, as advocated in web 2.0 paradigm. in this thesis, after a deep investigation of soc and its intrinsic soa paradigm, we propose a new approach based on widgets. we propose the widget-oriented architecture (woa); a new paradigm to enable a user-centric service reuse. in addition, we introduce new innovative mechanisms based on the woa paradigm to overcome current limitations of soa in service composition and business process management fields. this new paradigm, along with the innovative architecture and mechanisms introduced, has been validated through implementation and testing.
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Guidi, Claudio <1974>. "Formalizing languages for service oriented computing." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2007. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/373/1/Tesi.pdf.
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Service Oriented Computing is a new programming paradigm for addressing distributed system design issues. Services are autonomous computational entities which can be dynamically discovered and composed in order to form more complex systems able to achieve different kinds of task. E-government, e-business and e-science are some examples
of the IT areas where Service Oriented Computing will be exploited in the next years. At present, the most credited Service Oriented Computing technology is that of Web Services, whose specifications are enriched day by day by industrial consortia without following a precise and rigorous approach. This PhD thesis aims, on the one hand, at modelling Service Oriented Computing in a formal way in order to precisely define the main concepts it is based upon and, on the other hand, at defining a new approach, called bipolar approach, for addressing system design issues by synergically exploiting choreography and orchestration languages related by means of a mathematical relation
called conformance. Choreography allows us to describe systems of services from a global view point whereas orchestration supplies a means for addressing such an issue from a local perspective. In this work we present SOCK, a process algebra based language inspired by the Web Service orchestration language WS-BPEL which catches the essentials
of Service Oriented Computing. From the definition of SOCK we will able to define a general model for dealing with Service Oriented Computing where services and systems of services are related to the design of finite state automata and process algebra concurrent systems, respectively. Furthermore, we introduce a formal language for dealing with choreography. Such a language is equipped with a formal semantics and it forms, together with a subset of the SOCK calculus, the bipolar framework. Finally, we present JOLIE which is a Java implentation of a subset of the SOCK calculus and it is part of the bipolar framework we intend to promote.
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Guidi, Claudio <1974>. "Formalizing languages for service oriented computing." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2007. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/373/.
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Service Oriented Computing is a new programming paradigm for addressing distributed system design issues. Services are autonomous computational entities which can be dynamically discovered and composed in order to form more complex systems able to achieve different kinds of task. E-government, e-business and e-science are some examples
of the IT areas where Service Oriented Computing will be exploited in the next years. At present, the most credited Service Oriented Computing technology is that of Web Services, whose specifications are enriched day by day by industrial consortia without following a precise and rigorous approach. This PhD thesis aims, on the one hand, at modelling Service Oriented Computing in a formal way in order to precisely define the main concepts it is based upon and, on the other hand, at defining a new approach, called bipolar approach, for addressing system design issues by synergically exploiting choreography and orchestration languages related by means of a mathematical relation
called conformance. Choreography allows us to describe systems of services from a global view point whereas orchestration supplies a means for addressing such an issue from a local perspective. In this work we present SOCK, a process algebra based language inspired by the Web Service orchestration language WS-BPEL which catches the essentials
of Service Oriented Computing. From the definition of SOCK we will able to define a general model for dealing with Service Oriented Computing where services and systems of services are related to the design of finite state automata and process algebra concurrent systems, respectively. Furthermore, we introduce a formal language for dealing with choreography. Such a language is equipped with a formal semantics and it forms, together with a subset of the SOCK calculus, the bipolar framework. Finally, we present JOLIE which is a Java implentation of a subset of the SOCK calculus and it is part of the bipolar framework we intend to promote.
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Houacine, Fatiha. "Service-Oriented Architecture for the Mobile Cloud Computing." Thesis, Paris, CNAM, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016CNAM1110/document.
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La croissance des appareils connectés, principalement due au grand nombre de déploiements de l'internet des objets et à l'émergence des services de cloud mobile, introduit de nouveaux défis pour la conception d'architectures de services dans le Cloud Computing Mobile (CCM) du cloud computing mobile. Nous montrons dans cette thèse comment l'architecture orientée services SOA peut être une solution clé pour fournir des services cloud mobiles distribués et comment la plate-forme OSGi peut être un cadre adaptatif et efficace pour fournir une telle implémentation. Nous adaptons le cadre CCM proposé à différents contextes d'architecture. Le premier est un modèle centré traditionnel, où les appareils mobiles sont réduits à consommer des services. Le second est un modèle distribué où la puissance de l'interaction de mobile à mobile offre des opportunités illimitées de services de valeur, et enfin, l'architecture à trois niveaux est considérée avec l'introduction de la notion de cloudlet. Pour chaque contexte, nous explorons la performance de notre cadre axé sur le service et le comparons à d'autres solutions existantesThe growth of connected devices, mostly due to the large number of internet of things IoT deployments and the emergence of mobile cloud services, introduces new challenges for the design of service architectures in mobile cloud computing MCC. An MCC framework should provide elasticity and scalability in a distributed and dynamic way while dealing with limited environment resources and variable mobile contexts web applications, real-time, enterprise services, mobile to mobile, hostile environment, etc. that may include additional constraints impacting the design foundation of cloud services. We show in this thesis how service-oriented architecture SOA can be a key solution to provide distributed mobile cloud services and how OSGi platform can be an adaptive and efficient framework to provide such implementation. We adapt the proposed MCC framework to different architecture contexts. The first one is a traditional centric model, where mobile devices are reduced to consuming services. The second one is a distributed model where the power of mobile-to-mobile interaction offers unlimited value-services opportunities, and finally, three-tier architecture is considered with the introduction of the cloudlet notion. For each context, we explore the performance of our service-oriented framework, and contrast it with alternative existing solutions
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Al-Ajlan, Ajlan Suliman. "Service oriented computing for dynamic virtual learning environments." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/2416.
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Using the Internet for teaching and learning has become a trend in modern higher education, facilitated through the exploitation of advanced computing technologies. Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) applications support online learning over the Internet, and VLEs have thus emerged as e-learning domains that are essential prerequisites in cutting edge design and implementation technologies in education. Service Oriented Computing (SOC), as a novel software development and implementation approach, has become an active area of research and development. Web services, as an example of SOC, support the integration of software applications in an incremental way, using existing platforms and languages that utilize and adopt existing legacy systems. Thus, VLEs should be particularly well suited to Web services through the SOC approach. VLE services is a field subjected to continuous development but VLEs as Web services are still not generally accessible for academic institutions, although they have been adopted by some scientific projects. The next generation of VLEs should address the limitations of the current online systems by providing a richer context for online learning, one that is sensitive to the specific domain requirements of e-learning. Web Services Matching and Selection (WSMS), as a part of the functional requirements of Web services, has received less attention from SOC researchers. It involves discovering a set of semantically equivalent services by filtering a set of available services based on service metadata, and instantaneously selecting the best possible service. WSMS is the discovery of a service by a user, where correspondence is established between the objectives of the consumer and the capabilities of the service. It thereby aims to match and select the optimal service that best meets the requestor's needs. The main aim of this doctoral work is to explore novel architectural designs for VLEs, based on the SOC paradigm and its related techniques. In addition, this investigation aims to extend the core ideas behind VLE tools, which are gradually becoming dominant within academic institutes. Another aim is to devise a policy- based technique to enforce security requirements for VLEs and to build a test-bed for VLE security based on Modular Moodle. The fundamental contribution of this thesis that it demonstrates that VLEs can be considered as services, which can be published, discovered and composed as perceived in the SOC paradigm. An additional contribution to the knowledge is that it has built a new extension to the structure of Web services: the Web Services Matching and Selection (WSMS) system. Another contribution to the knowledge is that traditional security requirements have been modified to cater for the highly mobile and changeable environment of VLEs; this has been achieved through policy- based techniques. These contributions to the body of knowledge have been published in learned journals and at conferences.
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Laga, Nassim. "Service-oriented computing from the user perspective." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Evry, Institut national des télécommunications, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010TELE0024.
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SOC, pour Service-Oriented Computing, est un paradigme d’ingénierie qui a attiré beaucoup de travaux de recherche ces dernières années. Ces travaux ont donné lieu à des architectures, protocoles, et standards, afin de permettre à des développeurs d’exposer des services et d’en réutiliser d’autre publiés par des tiers. Cependant, ces technologies sont actuellement limitées aux besoins des développeurs uniquement. L’utilisateur final n’est malheureusement pas considéré comme un acteur potentiel dans le processus de réutilisation de services. Ainsi, contrairement aux principes Web 2.0 qui mettent l’utilisateur final au cœur du processus de génération de contenus et de services, les technologies actuelles de SOC se focalisent plus sur les développeurs. Dans cette thèse, après une étude approfondie de SOC et son paradigme intrinsèque (SOA pour Service-Oriented Architecture), nous proposons un nouveau paradigme basé sur le concept de Widget : WOA (pour Widget-Oriented Architecture). Ce nouveau paradigme vise à permettre la réutilisation de service centrée sur les besoins de chaque utilisateur (user-centric). Basé sur ce nouveau paradigme, nous introduisons de nouveaux mécanismes qui répondent aux limitations des architectures SOA dans les domaines de la composition de services et de la gestion de processus métiers (BPM pour Business Process Management). Ce travail est validé à travers une implémentation et plusieurs démonstrations/expérimentationsThe last decade has attracted lot of research work in service-oriented computing (soc), giving raise to standardized architectures, protocols, and technologies that enable developers to easily expose and reuse services. however, these technologies do not fully consider the users as potential actors in the creation of services based on existing ones, as advocated in web 2.0 paradigm. in this thesis, after a deep investigation of soc and its intrinsic soa paradigm, we propose a new approach based on widgets. we propose the widget-oriented architecture (woa); a new paradigm to enable a user-centric service reuse. in addition, we introduce new innovative mechanisms based on the woa paradigm to overcome current limitations of soa in service composition and business process management fields. this new paradigm, along with the innovative architecture and mechanisms introduced, has been validated through implementation and testing
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Manmohanlal, Danilo. "A middleware for service oriented computing in dynamic environments." Master's thesis, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/5398.
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Dissertação apresentada na Faculdade de
Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova
de Lisboa para a obtenção do Grau de Mestre
em Engenharia InformáticaThe last years have witnessed a convergence on the SOA paradigm from industrial processes enterprises (like logistics or manufacturing), using standards for data and communication. SOA promotes reusability, interoperability and loose-coupling of applications. The convergence towards SOA shows that we are leading to an infrastructure composed by several heterogeneous devices, the "Internet of Things". In this infrastructure everything can be abstracted as a service, such as household appliances, mobile devices, or industrial machinery. It is expected that this trend will continue, and as these devices interoperate in service composition, new functionalities may be discovered. Existing approaches for service composition, namely in business processes, are too bound to BPEL. Several alternatives and extensions of BPEL have been developed, but they feel more like patches than solutions. In this context SeDeUse [29] model has been proposed as an exercise to define new language constructs promoting a separation from service awareness and use. The model also relies on a middleware layer to support the execution of the application in dynamic environments. The goal of this dissertation is to instantiate the SeDeUse model in a widely used programming language in order to provide a framework for its assessment and for its future development. The work consists on implementing a concrete syntax for the model, a compilation process, and a middleware layer. The syntax contains the new language constructs that are integrated in the hosting language. The compilation process is responsible for service definition and code generation. Finally, the middleware acts as a support for the application (generated code) requests. We have seamlessly integrated SeDeUse in the Java programming language and developed a functional prototype. To assess the prototype capability, three scenarios were developed in which we demonstrated that our implementation provides a new, and simpler, approach for abstracting resources as services.
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Luthria, Haresh Information Systems Technology & Management Australian School of Business UNSW. "The organizational diffusion of service-oriented computing." Publisher:University of New South Wales. Information Systems, Technology & Management, 2009. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/44398.
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Corporations are actively pursuing business model innovation and organizational agility in the quest for sustainable competitive advantage in today??s global marketplace. The paradigm of service-oriented computing (SOC) has emerged as a popular approach to flexibility and agility, not just in systems development but also in business process management. The associated concept of service-oriented architecture (SOA) enables the defining of business flows as technology independent services, potentially providing avenues for agility in business process transformation. This architectural concept is growing in popularity and is being rapidly adopted by industry organizations. Studies of the practical impacts of adopting SOA are crucial because it involves a non-trivial and expensive overhaul of both business and technology infrastructures. There is, however, a paucity of critical research on the adoption of SOA. What is needed is a focus on the study of the real-world adoption of SOA across the enterprise and the factors that aid or impede such adoptions. This research examines the organizational use of SOA, both analytically and empirically through case studies, and posits a diffusion framework for the adoption and implementation of SOA as an enterprise strategy. The SOA Diffusion Framework addresses the following key areas ?? the organizational factors influencing the decision to adopt SOA, the organizational aspects of adopting and implementing SOA, and the outcomes or realized benefits of implementing SOA across the enterprise. For researchers, this study (i) fills a crucial knowledge gap because there is little empirical evidence of the practical use of SOA, (ii) adds to the innovation diffusion literature, (iii) introduces a tool to assess the organizational impact of SOA, and (iv) provides direction for future research into the organizational factors relating to the enterprise adoption of service-orientation. For practitioners, this study provides an adoption framework and a set of guidelines to help implement SOA successfully across the enterprise.
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Houacine, Fatiha. "Service-Oriented Architecture for the Mobile Cloud Computing." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris, CNAM, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016CNAM1110.
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La croissance des appareils connectés, principalement due au grand nombre de déploiements de l'internet des objets et à l'émergence des services de cloud mobile, introduit de nouveaux défis pour la conception d'architectures de services dans le Cloud Computing Mobile (CCM) du cloud computing mobile. Nous montrons dans cette thèse comment l'architecture orientée services SOA peut être une solution clé pour fournir des services cloud mobiles distribués et comment la plate-forme OSGi peut être un cadre adaptatif et efficace pour fournir une telle implémentation. Nous adaptons le cadre CCM proposé à différents contextes d'architecture. Le premier est un modèle centré traditionnel, où les appareils mobiles sont réduits à consommer des services. Le second est un modèle distribué où la puissance de l'interaction de mobile à mobile offre des opportunités illimitées de services de valeur, et enfin, l'architecture à trois niveaux est considérée avec l'introduction de la notion de cloudlet. Pour chaque contexte, nous explorons la performance de notre cadre axé sur le service et le comparons à d'autres solutions existantesThe growth of connected devices, mostly due to the large number of internet of things IoT deployments and the emergence of mobile cloud services, introduces new challenges for the design of service architectures in mobile cloud computing MCC. An MCC framework should provide elasticity and scalability in a distributed and dynamic way while dealing with limited environment resources and variable mobile contexts web applications, real-time, enterprise services, mobile to mobile, hostile environment, etc. that may include additional constraints impacting the design foundation of cloud services. We show in this thesis how service-oriented architecture SOA can be a key solution to provide distributed mobile cloud services and how OSGi platform can be an adaptive and efficient framework to provide such implementation. We adapt the proposed MCC framework to different architecture contexts. The first one is a traditional centric model, where mobile devices are reduced to consuming services. The second one is a distributed model where the power of mobile-to-mobile interaction offers unlimited value-services opportunities, and finally, three-tier architecture is considered with the introduction of the cloudlet notion. For each context, we explore the performance of our service-oriented framework, and contrast it with alternative existing solutions
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Giallorenzo, Saverio. "Workflow Patterns for Service Oriented Computing in JOLIE." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2012. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/3870/.
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Il presente lavoro di tesi ha come punto focale la descrizione, la verifica e la dimostrazione della realizzabilità dei Workflow Patterns di Gestione del Flusso(Control-Flow) e Risorse (Resource) definiti da parte della Workflow Pattern Initiative (WPI)in JOLIE, un innovativo linguaggio di programmazione orientato ai servizi nato nell'ambito del Service Oriented Computing.
Il Service Oriented Computing (SOC) è un nuovo modo di pensare la programmazione di applicazioni distribuite, i cui concetti fondamentali sono i servizi e la composizione. L’approccio SOC definisce la possibilità di costruire un’applicazione in funzione dei servizi che ne realizzano il comportamento tramite una loro composizione, definita secondo un particolare flusso di lavoro.
Allo scopo di fornire la necessaria conoscenza per capire la teoria, le meccaniche e i costrutti di JOLIE utilizzati per la realizzazione dei pattern, il seguente lavoro di tesi è stato diviso in quattro parti, corrispondenti ad altrettanti capitoli.
Nel primo capitolo viene riportata una descrizione generale del SOC e della Business Process Automation (BPA), che costituisce l’ambiente in cui il SOC è inserito.
Per questo viene fatta una disamina della storia informatica sui sistemi distribuiti, fino ad arrivare ai sistemi odierni, presentando in seguito il contesto del BPA e delle innovazioni derivanti dalle sue macro-componenti, di cui il SOC fa parte.
Continuando la descrizione dell’approccio Service Oriented, ne vengono presentati i requisiti (pre-condizioni) e si cerca di dare una definizione precisa del termine “servizio”, fino all'enunciazione dei principi SOC declinati nell’ottica delle Service Oriented Architectures, presentando in ultimo i metodi di composizione dei servizi, tramite orchestrazione e coreografia.
L’ultima sezione del capitolo prende in considerazione il SOC in un’ottica prettamente industriale e ne evidenzia i punti strategici.
Il secondo capitolo è incentrato sulla descrizione di JOLIE, gli aspetti fondamentali dell’approccio orientato ai servizi, che ne caratterizzano profondamente la definizione concettuale (SOCK), e la teoria della composizione dei servizi.
Il capitolo non si pone come una descrizione esaustiva di tutte le funzionalità del linguaggio, ma considera soprattutto i concetti teorici, le strutture di dati, gli operatori e i costrutti di JOLIE utilizzati per la dimostrazione della realizzabilità dei Workflow Pattern del capitolo successivo.
Il terzo capitolo, più lungo e centrale rispetto agli altri, riguarda la realizzazione dei workflow pattern in JOLIE. All'inizio del capitolo viene fornita una descrizione delle caratteristiche del WPI e dei Workflow Pattern in generale. In seguito, nelle due macro-sezioni relative ai Control-Flow e Resource pattern vengono esposte alcune nozioni riguardanti le metodologie di definizione dei pattern (e.g. la teoria sulla definizione delle Colored Petri Nets) e le convezioni adottate dal WPI, per passare in seguito al vero e proprio lavoro (sperimentale) di tesi riguardo la descrizione dei pattern, l’analisi sulla loro realizzabilità in JOLIE, insieme ad un codice di esempio che esemplifica quanto affermato dall'analisi.
Come sommario delle conclusioni raggiunte sui pattern, alla fine di ognuna delle due sezioni definite in precedenza, è presente una scheda di valutazione che, con lo stesso metodo utilizzato e definito dalla WPI, permette di avere una rappresentazione generale della realizzabilità dei pattern in JOLIE.
Il quarto capitolo riguarda gli esiti tratti dal lavoro di tesi, riportando un confronto tra le realizzazioni dei pattern in JOLIE e le valutazioni del WPI rispetto agli altri linguaggi da loro considerati e valutati. Sulla base di quanto ottenuto nel terzo capitolo vengono definite le conclusioni del lavoro portato avanti sui pattern e viene delineato un’eventuale scenario riguardante il proseguimento dell’opera concernente la validazione ed il completamento della studio.
In ultimo vengono tratte alcune conclusioni sia riguardo JOLIE, nel contesto evolutivo del linguaggio e soprattutto del progetto open-source che è alla sua base, sia sul SOC, considerato nell’ambito del BPA e del suo attuale ambito di sviluppo dinamico.
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Cabrera, Bejar Oscar Jair. "Supporting the context life cycle in service-oriented computing." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/454978.
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Current software community players like academy and industry have been changing the traditional paradigms of software engineering towards context-awareness and distributed computing. Nowadays, service-oriented computing and context-aware computing are two emerging paradigms that are changing the way of designing, developing, providing and consuming software services. Whilst service-oriented computing is based on service-oriented architectures and it is focused on modelling functionality and providing flexible software services, context-aware computing is based on the context life cycle and it allows processing and changing the behaviour of such services given certain context information. The synergy between both paradigms is a core research topic in ubiquitous and pervasive computing widely applied to the Internet of Things and Smart Cities.In the present PhD thesis, we exploit this synergy by focusing on context-aware computing from the perspective of service-oriented computing, which is also known as context-aware service-oriented computing. Such research topic involves the management of context within different essential phases of the context life cycle that show how the context data moves from phase to phase in software services within the paradigm of the service-oriented computing. Hence, the work done in this thesis involves different components and processes that have the aim to accomplish the context life cycle, namely the acquisition, modelling, reasoning and dissemination of the context in service-oriented computing. Particularly, we make an effort to provide both a context ontology for context modelling, context reasoning and high-level context dissemination, and a context-aware monitoring architecture for context acquisition and low-level context dissemination.Such work of the thesis has been motivated for contributing in the solution of different issues mainly identified in the phases of context modelling and context acquisition that are a strong basis of the context life cycle. Firstly, in the context modelling we mainly identified the proliferation of several context models presenting some problems about: reusability, extensibility and adaptation. Secondly, in the context acquisition we mainly identified that existing monitoring infrastructures are not prepared to support the constant changes in their context and the context of other entities, including the services that they are supervising which provoke the provisioning of context data that is not reliable. In summary, this thesis explores three big research questions: 1) What context data to acquire and to model? This involves the study of the current state of the art of context models, specifically: which are these proposals and how are they related, what are their structural characteristics, what context information is the most addressed, and what are their most consolidated definitions. 2) How to model context data? This involves the development of a three-level context ontology with the aim of improving the reusability, extensibility and adaptation capabilities of existing context models. 3) How to acquire context data? This involves the development of a context-aware monitoring architecture that can be easily configured, adapted or evolved according to the constant changes of the context.The context model and the architecture proposed in this PhD thesis are validated through different scenarios and use cases, highlighting their integration in SUPERSEDE (www.supersede.eu), a European project in the H2020 program for fulfilling some requirements of data acquisition and management demonstrating that the context life cycle is supported.Els actors actuals de la comunitat de software, com l'acadèmia o la indústria, han anat canviant els paradigmes tradicionals de l'enginyeria de software cap a la sensibilitat al context i la computació distribuïda. Avui dia, la computació orientada a serveis i la computació conscient del context són dos paradigmes emergents que estan canviant la forma de dissenyar, desenvolupar, proporcionar i consumir serveis de software. Mentre que la computació orientada a serveis es basa en arquitectures orientades a serveis i se centra en el modelatge de la funcionalitat i la prestació de serveis de software flexibles, la computació sensible al context es basa en el cicle de vida del context i permet el processament i canviar el comportament d'aquest tipus de serveis donada una determinada informació del context. La sinergia entre els dos paradigmes és un tema central de recerca a la computació ubiqua i omnipresent, àmpliament aplicada a la Internet de les coses i les ciutats intel·ligents. En la present tesi doctoral explotem aquesta sinèrgia, centrant-se en la computació sensible al context des de la perspectiva de la computació orientada a serveis, que també es coneix com computació orientada a serveis sensibles al context. Tal tema de recerca implica la gestió de contexts en diferents fases essencials del cicle de vida del context que mostren com les dades de context es mouen d'una fase a l’altra en serveis de software dins del paradigma de la computació orientada a serveis. Per tant, el treball realitzat en aquesta tesi consisteix en diferents components i processos que tenen l'objectiu d'aconseguir el cicle de vida del context, és a dir, l'adquisició, el modelatge, el raonament i la difusió del context en computació orientada a serveis. En particular, fem un esforç per proporcionar tant una ontologia de context per a la modelització, raonament i difusió del context d'alt nivell, i una arquitectura de monitorització sensible al context per a l'adquisició i difusió del context de baix nivell. Aquest treball de tesi ha estat motivat per contribuir a la solució dels diferents problemes identificats principalment en les fases de modelatge de context i adquisició de context que són una base sòlida del cicle de vida del context. En primer lloc, en el modelatge de context es van identificar principalment la proliferació de diversos models de context que presenten alguns problemes sobre: reutilització, l'extensibilitat i l'adaptació. En segon lloc, en l'adquisició del context identifiquem principalment que les infraestructures de monitorització existents no estan preparats per suportar els canvis constants en el seu context i el context d'altres entitats, incloent-hi els serveis que s'estan supervisant, que provoquen un aprovisionament de dades de context que no és fiable. En resum, aquesta tesi explora tres grans preguntes de recerca: 1) Quines dades de context cal adquirir i modelar? Això implica l'estudi de l'estat actual de la tècnica dels models de context, en concret: ¿quines són aquestes propostes i com es relacionen, quines són les seves característiques estructurals, quina informació de context és la més adreçada, i quines són les seves definicions més consolidades. 2) Com modelar les dades de context? Això implica el desenvolupament d'una ontologia de context de tres nivells amb l'objectiu de millorar les capacitats de reutilització, extensibilitat i adaptació dels models de context existents. 3) Com adquirir dades de context? Això implica el desenvolupament d'una arquitectura de monitorització sensible al context que pot ser fàcilment configurat o adaptat d'acord amb els canvis del context. El model de context i l'arquitectura proposada en aquesta tesi doctoral es validen a través de diferents escenaris i casos d'ús, destacant la seva integració en SUPERSEDE, un projecte europeu en el programa H2020 per al compliment d'alguns requisits d'adquisició i gestió de dades que demostra que es dóna suport al cicle de vida del context.
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Hall, Stephen. "An integrated fault tolerance framework for service oriented computing." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.547982.
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Strollo, Daniele. "Designing and experimenting coordination primitives for service oriented computing." Thesis, IMT Alti Studi Lucca, 2009. http://e-theses.imtlucca.it/20/1/Strollo_phdthesis.pdf.
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Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web Services (WS) are becoming a widely accepted device for designing and implementing distributed systems. SOAs have given an important contribution to software engineering providing
a model where applications are defined by assembling together certain functionalities, called services, possibly provided by remote suppliers. The characterizing issue of SOAs consists of defining common principles to make services accessible and usable regardless their execution context. Nevertheless, the architectural specification is far from giving a complete reference application model on which systems should rely on. The specification just includes principles for achieving interoperability and reusability of services; other aspects are left to the implementing platforms. As a consequence, it is understood how services are specified in isolation and how their functionalities are made available to the requesters, but the definition of languages for describing service composition are far from being widely accepted and reveals to be an impelling challenge. In the last years, several solutions have been proposed for describing aggregated
services. However, they often lack a formally defined semantics. Moreover, these solutions are often specific for a platform (e.g. WSs) and are difficult to adapt to other platforms since they rely on low level assumptions that are out of the SOA specifications. This thesis aims at providing new methodologies for implementing the coordination of services. Our framework proposes to be flexible enough to support high level languages and to provide reliable tools for testing correctness of implementation. Our approach relies on a formal model that takes the form of a process calculus specifically designed to deal with services and their coordination. The process calculus has been the main tool driving the specification issues as well the implementation issues. Indeed, it acts as a bridge between the high level specification language and the run-time environment. A distinguished feature of our proposal is that our formal model, i.e. the process calculus, describes distributed processes relying on an event notification mechanism as machinery for interactions. Services are represented by certain components that embody local computations and react to changes of the overall
environment in which they are involved. The adoption of event notification results particularly fashionable for tackling service coordination. The principles studied
at specification level are from one side understood within a theoretical framework that provides instruments for checking correctness of interaction policies and from the other side offers the core model for implementing and experimenting a programming middleware.
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Deora, Vikas. "Quality of service support for service discovery and selection in service oriented computing environment." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2007. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/54702/.
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Service oriented computing (SOC) represents a new generation of web architecture. Central to SOC is the notion of services, which are self-contained, self-describing, modular applications that can be published, located, and invoked across the Internet. The services represent capability, which can be anything from simple operations to complicated business processes. This new architecture offers great potential for e-commerce applications, where software agents can automatically find and select the services that best serve a consumer's interests. Many techniques have been proposed for discovery and selection of services, most of which have been constructed without a formal Quality of Service (QoS) model or much regard to understanding the needs of consumers. This thesis aims to provide QoS support for the entire SOC life cycle, namely: (i) extend current approaches to service discovery that allow service providers to advertise their services in a format that supports quality specifications, and allows service consumers to request services by stating required quality levels, (ii) support matchmaking between advertised and requested services based on functional as well as quality requirements, (iii) perform QoS assessment to support consumers in service selection. Many techniques exists for performing QoS assessment, most of which are based on collecting quality ratings from the users of a service. This thesis argues that collecting quality ratings alone from the users is not sufficient for deriving a reliable and accurate quality measure for a service. This is because different users often have different expectations and judgements on the quality of a service and their ratings tend to be closely related to these expectations, i.e., how their expectations are met. The thesis proposes a new model for QoS assessment, based on user expectations that collects expectations as well as ratings from the users of a service, then calculates the QoS using only the ratings which were judged on similar expectations.
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Sargeant, Anthony John. "Testing the dependability of dynamic binding in service-oriented computing." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.616303.
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Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) provides a flexible framework in which applications may be built up from services, often distributed across a network. One of the promises of SOC is that of Dynamic Binding where abstract consumer requests are bound to concrete service instances at runtime, thereby offering a high level of flexibility and adaptability. Existing research has so far focused mostly on the design and implementation of dynamic binding operations and there is little research into a comprehensive evaluation of dynamic binding systems, especially in terms of system failure and dependability. This work presents a novel, extensible evaluation framework that allows for the testing and assessment of a Dynamic Binding System (DBS). Based on a fault model specially built for DBS's, the system is able to insert selectively the types of fault that would affect a DBS and observe its behaviour. By treating the DBS as a black box and distributing the components of the evaluation framework, it is not restricted to the implementing technologies of the DBS, nor does it need to be co-located in the same environment as the DBS under test. This thesis presents the results of a series of experiments on two case studies; a proof-of-concept DBS, and a real-life DBS. Here the focus is on the interactions between each DBS and the services they employ as well as interactions with a client of the DBS. The results on the proof-of-concept Calculator-DBS and real-life NECTISE Software Demonstrator (NSD) system show that the proposed method and testing framework is able to trigger abnormal behaviour of the NSD due to communication and interaction faults and generate important information for improving both dependability and performance of the system under test.
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Xue, Gang. "Service-oriented grid computing in engineering optimisation and design search." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2004. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/45918/.
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The rapid development of the Internet as well as the vast increase in computational and other resources connected to the network have led to the concept of ‘Grid computing’, which enables various innovative computational behaviours based on large-scale, dynamic and coordinated resource sharing. The unique environment and behaviour of the computational Grid have generated specific requirements for Grid technologies to bring interoperability, stability, scalability and adaptability. The emergence and maturing of the open standards based Web services technologies have addressed these requirements and provided a sound based for the development of future Grid technologies. This thesis presents research on the exploitation of Web services for Grid computing based on a Grid-enabled engineering optimisation and design search system. The work explains why service-orientation is appropriate for Grid computing, and successfully demonstrates the application of such technologies in various important areas of Grid computing. Experiences achieved through the work can also be of referential value to future attempts of Grid computing in different areas.
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Li, Wenbin. "Towards a resilient service oriented computing based on ad-hoc web service compositions in dynamic environments." Thesis, Lyon, INSA, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014ISAL0032/document.
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Le processus de composition des services Web joue un rôle important dans la réalisation des architectures orientées services (SOA). Dans les environnements dynamiques dans lesquels des informations con-textuelles changent souvent, le processus de composition est souvent affec-té pendant les phases de conception et d’exécution. Ce processus devrait par conséquence être en mesure de s'adapter aux changements en temps de conception et exécution. A présent, les architectures orientées services et les mécanismes automatiques de composition de services Web ne parviennent pas à faire face aux changements continus et imprévisibles. Construire des architectures orientées services qui s'adaptent aux changements dans des environnements dynamiques révèle un défi pour les processus de com-position de services Web. En outre, les processus de composition actuelles offrent un support limité pour les utilisateurs professionnels de spécifier leurs exigences métier afin générer automatiquement les processus métiers (services Web composites). Par cela, l'écart entre les exigences fonction-nelles et non-fonctionnelles au niveau métier et les exigences techniques liées aux mécanismes de composition de services Web augmentent la com-plexité du développement d'applications ou de processus métier adaptés aux environnements dynamiques. Pour remédier à ces défis, nous introduisons le concept de rési-lience appliqué à l'informatique orientée services (nommé SOC résilient) afin de construire des applications et processus métier dynamiques en res-pectant les exigences métier dans des environnements dynamiques. La SOA résilient est conçue comme un ensemble de modèles qui affectent, et sont affectées par, d’autres modèles. Dans cette thèse, nos contributions, qui se concentrent en particulier sur le modèle d’exigence de composition et le modèle de composition des services Web, composent trois parties princi-pales: tout d'abord le modèle de d’exigence est modélisé aux trois niveaux, i.e., métier, capacité, et règle. Particulièrement, le modèle de d’exigence métier offre aux utilisateurs un langage structuré à base de langage naturelle pour spécifier les processus métier; d'autre part, un processus de trans-formation dérive par transformation un modèle d’exigence de composition à base de règles. Chaque règle représente un ensemble de contraintes multi-objectives concernant différentes variables liées au processus de composi-tion et à son environnement dynamique. Troisièmement, une approche ad-hoc de composition des services Web a été développée pour construire de services composites sans plans de composition prédéfinis dans des environ-nements dynamiques. L’approche de transformation de modèle-à-modèle génère les règles qui sont récursivement utilisées pour modifier ces modèles et ensuite replanifiés une composition ad-hoc de services WebDue to the distributed and asynchronous nature of Web services, the Web service composition process plays an important role in achieving SOC. In dynamic environments by which contextual information such as Web service properties and composition requirements often change, the composition process is thus affected and, consequently, should be able to adapt composite applications to changes at design time and runtime. Un-fortunately, current Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web service composition approaches lack of the ability to deal with continuous and un-predictable changes. Building resilient service-oriented architectures that are adaptable to endogenous and exogenous changes in dynamic environments reveal a drastic challenge to current composition processes. In addition, current composition processes provide a limited support for business users to specify their requirements in business languages to automatically compose business processes (i.e., composite services). By such, the gap be-tween business requirements and composition requirements related to Web services increases the complexity of developing adaptable SOA-based ap-plications and processes in dynamic environments. To overcome these challenges, we introduce the concept of Resili-ent Service-Oriented Computing (rSOC) to construct resilient SOA-based applications driven by business requirements in dynamic environments. To this end, the resilient SOA is defined as a set of models that affect and are affected by each other, and relies on a model-to-model transformation ap-proach to ensure SOA adaptability and evolution. In this thesis, we particu-larly focus on two models: a three-level composition requirement model and a Web service composition model, to establish the foundation for a re-silient SOA as follows: firstly, composition requirements are modeled in three levels, i.e., business-centric, capability-focused and rule-driven. Par-ticularly the business-centric requirement model provides business users with a structured natural language to specify requirements; secondly, a two-phase requirement transformation process builds the rule-driven Web ser-vice composition requirement model from the business-centric requirement model as set of composition rules, expressing multi-objective constraints that affect the composition process and its dynamic environment; thirdly, an ad-hoc Web service composition approach is introduced to flexibly con-struct composite services without predefined composition plans. Particularly, composition rules generated in composition process may affect other model(s) in the resilient SOA, such as composition requirement model, and recursively invoke the model-to-model transformation approach to replan the ad-hoc Web service composition approach
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Marmocchi, Matteo. "Jolie - un linguaggio Service Oriented." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2014. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/6558/.
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Nella tesi vengono descritte le caratteristiche principali del linguaggio di programmazione service-oriented Jolie, analizzandone ampiamente la sintassi e proponendo esempi di utilizzo degli operatori e dei costrutti. Viene fatta una panoramica di SOC, SOA, Web Services, Cloud Computing, Orchestrazione, Coreografia, Deployment e Behaviour, gli ultimi due analizzati in diversi capitoli. La tesi si conclude con un esempio di conversione di servizi WSDL in Jolie, producendo un esempio di utilizzo del Web Service convertito. Nel documento vengono accennati i progressi storici del linguaggio ed i loro sviluppatori, nonché le API fornite dal linguaggio.
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Raghunath, Chaitra. "Service ORiented Computing EnviRonment (SORCER) for Deterministic Global and Stochastic Optimization." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/75292.
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With rapid growth in the complexity of large scale engineering systems,
the application of multidisciplinary analysis and design optimization (MDO)
in the engineering design process has garnered much attention. MDO addresses
the challenge of integrating several different disciplines into the design
process. Primary challenges of MDO include computational expense and poor
scalability. The introduction of a distributed, collaborative computational
environment results in better utilization of available computational
resources, reducing the time to solution, and enhancing scalability. SORCER,
a Java-based network-centric computing platform, enables analyses and
design studies in a distributed collaborative computing environment. Two
different optimization algorithms widely used in multidisciplinary
engineering design---VTDIRECT95 and QNSTOP---are implemented on a SORCER
grid. VTDIRECT95, a Fortran 95 implementation of D. R. Jones' algorithm
DIRECT, is a highly parallelizable derivative-free deterministic global
optimization algorithm. QNSTOP is a parallel quasi-Newton algorithm for
stochastic optimization problems. The purpose of integrating VTDIRECT95
and QNSTOP into the SORCER framework is to provide load balancing among
computational resources, resulting in a dynamically scalable process.
Further, the federated computing paradigm implemented by SORCER manages
distributed services in real time, thereby significantly speeding up the
design process. Results are included for an aircraft design application.Master of Science
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Simon, Eric. "Sam : un environnement d'exécution pour les applications à services dynamiques et hétérogènes." Phd thesis, Université de Grenoble, 2011. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00585623.
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Ces dernières années, le contexte d'exécution des applications a beaucoup évolué. Nous sommes passés, en moins de 15 ans, d'applications monolithiques et statiques faiblement distribuées à des applications réparties à grande échelle ayant un comportement très dynamique. Les plates-formes d'exécution qui étaient autrefois fermées sont désormais ouvertes à des équipements nomades et aux contextes des utilisateurs comme dans l'informatique ubiquitaire ou la domotique. Les éléments logiciels, dans ce nouveau contexte, peuvent apparaitre ou disparaître de façon imprédictible (ils sont dits " dynamiques ") et sont souvent issus de technologies hétérogènes (Web Service, OSGi, UPnP, etc.). Le caractère imprévisible de l'environnement, et le fait qu'il faille s'y adapter rend, apparemment, les plates-formes d'exécution non déterministes. Il est impératif de pouvoir maîtriser l'évolution des applications dynamiques. Cette thèse définit une plate-forme pour l'exécution répartie de services hétérogènes. Cette plate-forme fournit un modèle homogène de l'état des services à l'exécution et des opérations d'administration du cycle de vie d'un service, indépendamment des plates-formes réelles. Cette plate-forme fournit également des mécanismes qui permettent d'étendre la supervision et l'administration à d'autres préoccupations (déploiement, versionnement, etc.). Les propriétés d'introspection et de réflexion ainsi obtenues permettent de contrôler l'évolution à l'exécution de l'architecture d'une application et par là même de maîtriser les applications dynamiques. Cette thèse fournit un prototype d'une telle plate-forme nommée SAM-RT.
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Vieira, Hugo Filipe Mendes Torres. "A calculus for modeling and analyzing conversations in service-oriented computing." Doctoral thesis, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/5901.
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Dissertação apresentada para a obtenção do Grau
de Doutor em Informática pela Universidade Nova
de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências e TecnologiaThe service-oriented computing paradigm has motivated a large research effort in the past few years. On the one hand, the wide dissemination of Web-Service technology urged for the development of standards, tools and formal techniques that contributed for the design of more reliable systems. On the other hand, many of the problems presented in the study of service-oriented applications find an existing work basis in well-established research fields, as is the case of the study of interaction models that has been an active field of research in the last couple of decades. However, there are many new problems raised by the service-oriented computing paradigm in particular that call for new concepts, dedicated models and specialized formal analysis techniques. The work presented in this dissertation is inserted in such effort, with particular focus on the challenges involved in governing interaction in service-oriented applications. One of the main innovations introduced by the work presented here is the way in which multiparty interaction is handled. One reference field of research that addresses the specification and analysis of interaction of communication-centric systems is based on the notion of session. Essentially, a session characterizes the interaction between two parties, a client and a server,that exchange messages between them in a sequential and dual way. The notion of session is thus particularly adequate to model the client/server paradigm, however it fails to cope with interaction between several participants, a scenario frequently found in real service-oriented applications. The approach described in this dissertation improves on the state of the art as it allows to model and analyze systems where several parties interact, while retaining the fundamental flavor of session-based approaches, by relying on a novel notion of conversation: a simple extension of the notion of session that allows for several parties to interact in a single medium of communication in a disciplined way, via labeled message passing. The contributions of the work presented in this dissertation address the modeling and analysis of service-oriented applications in a rigorous way: First, we propose and study a formal model for service-oriented computing, the Conversation Calculus, which, building on the abstract notion of conversation, allows to capture the interactions between several parties that are relative to the same service task using a single medium of communication. Second, we introduce formal analysis techniques, namely the conversation type system and progress proof system that can be used to ensure, in a provably correct way and at static verification time (before deploying such applications), that systems enjoy good properties such as “the prescribed protocols will be followed at runtime by all conversation participants”(conversation fidelity)and “the system will never run into a stuck state” (progress). We give substantial evidence that our approach is already effective enough to model and type sophisticated service-based systems, at a fairly high level of abstraction. Examples of such systems include challenging scenarios involving simultaneous multiparty conversations, with concurrency and access to local resources, and conversations with a dynamically changing and unanticipated number of participants, that fall out of scope of previous approaches.
Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia - PhD Scholarship SFRH/BD/23760/2005
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Sehgal, Rakesh. "Service-Oriented Architecture based Cloud Computing Framework For Renewable Energy Forecasting." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/25867.
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Forecasting has its application in various domains as the decision-makers are provided with a more predictable and reliable estimate of events that are yet to occur. Typically, a user would invest in licensed software or subscribe to a monthly or yearly plan in order to make such forecasts. The framework presented here differs from conventional software in forecasting, as it allows any interested party to use the proposed services on a pay-per-use basis so that they can avoid investing heavily in the required infrastructure.
The Framework-as-a-Service (FaaS) presented here uses Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) to implement Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). For forecasting, collection of data, its analysis and forecasting responsibilities lies with users, who have to put together other tools or software in order to produce a forecast. FaaS offers each of these responsibilities as a service, namely, External Data Collection Framework (EDCF), Internal Data Retrieval Framework (IDRF) and Forecast Generation Framework (FGF). FaaS Controller, being a composite service based on the above three, is responsible for coordinating activities between them.
These services are accessible through Economic Endpoint (EE) or Technical Endpoint (TE) that can be used by a remote client in order to obtain cost or perform a forecast, respectively. The use of Cloud Computing makes these services available over the network to be used as software to forecast energy for solar or wind resources. These services can also be used as a platform to create new services by merging existing functionality with new service features for forecasting. Eventually, this can lead to faster development of newer services where a user can choose which services to use and pay for, presenting the use of FaaS as Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) in forecasting.Master of Science
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Li, Qiyan. "An Architecture for Geographically-Oriented Service Discovery on the Internet." Thesis, University of Waterloo, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/1164.
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Most of the service discovery protocols available on the Internet are built upon its logical structure. This phenomenon can be observed frequently from the way in which they behave. For instance, Jini and SLP service providers announce their presence by multicasting service advertisements, an approach that is neither intended to scale nor capable of scaling to the size of the Internet. With mobile and wireless devices becoming increasingly popular, there appears to be a need for performing service discovery in a wide-area context, as there is very little direct correlation between the Internet topology and geographic locations. Even for desktop computers, such a need can arise from time to time. This problem suggests the necessity for an architecture that allows users to locate resources on the Internet using geographic criteria. This thesis presents an architecture that can be deployed with minimal effort in the existing network infrastructure. The geographic information can be shared among multiple applications in a fashion similar to the way DNS is shared throughout the Internet. The design and implementation of the architecture are discussed in detail, and three case studies are used to illustrate how the architecture can be employed by various applications to satisfy dramatically different needs of end-users.
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Zingaro, Stefano Pio <1988>. "Interoperability Challenges in Internet of Things Systems: a Service-Oriented Computing Approach." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2020. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/9088/1/spz_phd_thesis_v1_1.pdf.
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Internet of Things systems are pervasive systems evolved from cyber-physical to large-scale systems. Due to the number of technologies involved, software development involves several integration challenges. Among them, the ones preventing proper integration are those related to the system heterogeneity, and thus addressing interoperability issues. From a software engineering perspective, developers mostly experience the lack of interoperability in the two phases of software development: programming and deployment. On the one hand, modern software tends to be distributed in several components, each adopting its most-appropriate technology stack, pushing programmers to code in a protocol- and data-agnostic way. On the other hand, each software component should run in the most appropriate execution environment and, as a result, system architects strive to automate the deployment in distributed infrastructures.
This dissertation aims to improve the development process by introducing proper tools to handle certain aspects of the system heterogeneity. Our effort focuses on three of these aspects and, for each one of those, we propose a tool addressing the underlying challenge. The first tool aims to handle heterogeneity at the transport and application protocol level, the second to manage different data formats, while the third to obtain optimal deployment.
To realize the tools, we adopted a linguistic approach, i.e.\ we provided specific linguistic abstractions that help developers to increase the expressive power of the programming language they use, writing better solutions in more straightforward ways.
To validate the approach, we implemented use cases to show that the tools can be used in practice and that they help to achieve the expected level of interoperability.
In conclusion, to move a step towards the realization of an integrated Internet of Things ecosystem, we target programmers and architects and propose them to use the presented tools to ease the software development process.
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Piemontese, Andrea. "Un'architettura dinamica service-oriented per l'esecuzione distribuita di task." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2011. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/2739/.
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Perepletchikov, Mikhail, and mikhail perepletchikov@rmit edu au. "Software Design Metrics for Predicting Maintainability of Service-Oriented Software." RMIT University. Computer Science and Information Technology, 2009. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20091105.144445.
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As the pace of business change increases, service-oriented (SO) solutions should facilitate easier maintainability as underlying business logic and rules change. To date, little effort has been dedicated to considering how the structural properties of coupling and cohesion may impact on the maintainability of SO software products. Moreover, due to the unique design characteristics of Service-Oriented Computing (SOC), existing Procedural and Object-Oriented (OO) software metrics are not sufficient for the accurate measurement of service-oriented design structures. This thesis makes a contribution to the field of SOC, and Software Engineering in general, by proposing and evaluating a suite of design-level coupling and cohesion metrics for predicting the maintainability of service-oriented software products early in the Software Development LifeCycle (SDLC). The proposed metrics can provide the following benefits: i) facilitate design decisions that could lead to the specification of quality SO designs that can be maintained more easily; ii) identify design problems that can potentially have a negative effect on the maintainability of existing service-oriented design structures; and iii) support more effective control of maintainability in the earlier stages of SDLC. More specifically, the following research was conducted as part of this thesis: - A formal mathematical model covering the structural and behavioural properties of service-oriented system design was specified. - Software metrics were defined in a precise, unambiguous, and formal manner using the above model. - The metrics were theoretically validated and empirically evaluated in order to determine the success of this thesis as follows: a. Theoretical validation was based on the property-based software engineering measurement framework. All the proposed metrics were deemed as theoretically valid. b. Empirical evaluation employed a controlled experimental study involving ten participants who performed a range of maintenance tasks on two SO systems developed (and measured using the proposed metrics) specifically for this study. The majority of the experimental outcomes compared favourably with our expectations and hypotheses. More specifically, the results indicated that most of the proposed metrics can be used to predict the maintainability of service-oriented software products early in the SDLC, thereby providing evidence for the validity and potential usefulness of the derived metrics. Nevertheless, a broader range of industrial scale experiments and analyses are required to fully demonstrate the practical applicability of the metrics. This has been left to future work.
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Bourret, Pierre. "Modèle à Composant pour Plate-forme Autonomique." Thesis, Grenoble, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014GRENM083/document.
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Ces dernières décennies, les environnements informatiques sont devenus de plus en plus complexes, parsemés de dispositifs miniatures et sophistiqués gérant la mobilité et communiquant sans fil. L'informatique ubiquitaire, telle qu'imaginée par Mark Weiser en 1991, favorise l'intégration transparente de ces environnements avec le monde réel pour offrir de nouveaux types d'applications. La conception de programmes pour environnements ubiquitaires soulève cependant de nombreux défis, en particulier le problème de rendre une application auto-adaptable dans un contexte en constante évolution. Parallèlement, alors que la taille et la complexité de systèmes plus classiques ont explosé, IBM a proposé le concept d'informatique autonomique afin de réduire le fardeau de l'administration de systèmes imposants et largement disséminés. Cette thèse se base sur une approche où les applications sont conçues sous la forme de composants utilisant et fournissant des services. Un modèle de développement fondé sur une architecture de référence pour la conception d'applications ubiquitaires est proposée, fortement inspiré des recherches dans le domaine de l'informatique autonomique. Dans ce modèle, les applications sont prises en charge par une hiérarchie de gestionnaires autonomiques, qui appuient leurs décisions sur une représentation centrale du système. La mise en œuvre de cette contribution requiert de rendre la couche d'exécution sous-jacente plus réflexive, en vue de supporter de nouveaux types d'adaptations à l'exécution. Nous proposons également un modèle qui décrit le système à l'exécution et reflète sa dynamique de manière uniforme, suivant les principes du style d'architecture REST. Les applications reposant sur ce cette couche d'exécution réflexive et représentées par ce modèle sont qualifiées d'Autonomic-Ready. L'implantation de nos propositions ont été intégrées dans le modèle à composant orienté service Apache Felix iPOJO. Le modèle de représentation du système, nommé Everest, est publié en tant que sous-projet d'OW2 Chameleon. Ces propositions ont été évaluées et validées par la conception et l'exécution d'une application ubiquitaire sur iCASA, un environnement de développement et de simulationIn the last decades, computing environments have been getting more and more complex, filled with miniaturized and sophisticated devices that can handle mobility and wireless communications. Ubiquitous computing, as envisioned by Mark Weiser in 1991, promote the seamless integration of those computing environments with the real world in order to offer new kinds of applications. However, writing software for ubiquitous environments raises numerous challenges, mainly the problem of how to make an application adapt itself in an ever changing context. From another perspective, as classical softwares were growing in size and complexity, IBM proposed the concept of autonomic computing to help to contain the burden of administering massive and numerous systems. This PhD thesis is based on an approach where applications are designed in terms of components using and providing services. A development model based on a reference architecture for the conception of ubiquitous applications is proposed, greatly inspired by researches in the autonomic computing field. In this model, the application is managed by a hierarchy of autonomic managers, that base their decisions on a central representation of the system. The fulfilment of this contribution requires to make the underlying middleware more reflexive, in order to support new kinds of runtime adaptations. We also provide a model that depicts the running system and its dynamics in a uniform way, based on REST principles. Applications relying on this reflexive middleware and represented by this model are what we called Autonomic-Ready. Implementations of our proposals have been integrated in the Apache Felix iPOJO service-oriented component model. The system representation, named Everest, is provided as a OW2 Chameleon subproject. Validation is based on the iCASA pervasive environment development and simulation environment
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Yu, Ning [Verfasser], and Martin [Akademischer Betreuer] Wirsing. "Injecting continuous time execution into service-oriented computing / Ning Yu ; Betreuer: Martin Wirsing." München : Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1142787656/34.
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Zhou, J. (Jiehan). "Pervasive service computing: community coordinated multimedia, context awareness, and service composition." Doctoral thesis, Oulun yliopisto, 2011. http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9789514296451.
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Abstract This thesis introduces a novel Web service-centric solution to pervasive computing, called Service-oriented Pervasive Computing (also called Pervasive Service Computing), which enables computer systems to deal with context in the user’s environment, to dynamically discover and compose existing services, and to develop Internet-scale multimedia applications that support users’ activities. First, this thesis introduces the concept of Pervasive Service Computing and its relation to community coordinated multimedia, context awareness, and service-oriented computing. It then investigates the state of the art, the practices, and techniques which have been developed to support such services. Building on these tools, this study adopts a service-oriented methodology to design a reference model for Pervasive Service Computing, for accommodating specified technical requirements. This model can serve as a guide for research and development towards Pervasive Service Computing. Second, the thesis examines the nature of community coordinated multimedia, and develops the concept of Community Coordinated Multimedia (CCM). To discover the potentials of discoverability and composability of multimedia applications, the thesis introduces a model for Service-oriented Community Coordinated Multimedia (SCCM), and demonstrates the idea of “multimedia application as a service.” Furthermore, the thesis presents a content annotation service and evaluates its feasibility as an end-user prototype. Third, the thesis investigates the nature of context awareness in Pervasive Service Computing, to broaden the definition of context and context-awareness. This research introduces context-aware pervasive service composition (CAPSC) applications, and specifies three-levels of context awareness. Building on this framework, the context-aware service composition prototype is implemented. Fourth, the author examines the overall potential of service composition in Pervasive Service Computing, distinguishes its two main functions as service collaboration, and service coordination, and then develops an ODPSC (Ontology-Driven Pervasive Service Composition) ontology. To address the availability and scalability of service composition, the thesis introduces options for dynamic service composition in the Cloud, and develops an accelerated Cloud architecture for service composition in the Cloud (namely CM4SC middleware). Last, the CM4SC middleware as a service prototype is implementedTiivistelmä Tässä työssä käsitellään uutta jokapaikan tietotekniikan Web-palvelukeskeistä ratkaisua, palveluorientoitunutta jokapaikan tietotekniikkaa (Pervasive Service Computing). Tämän avulla tietokonejärjestelmät voivat ottaa huomioon käyttäjän ympäristön tilanteen, löytää ja koota palveluja dynaamisesti, ja näin voidaan kehittää Internetin laajuisia käyttäjän toimintoja tukevia multimediasovelluksia. Ensiksi työssä esitellään jokapaikan tietotekniikan palvelujen käsite sekä tällaisten palveluiden suhde yhteisöllisesti koordinoituun multimediaan, tilannetietoisuuten ja palveluorientoituneeseen tietotekniikkaan. Tieteen nykytila sekä tällaisia palveluja tukemaan kehitetyt käytännöt ja tekniikat esitellään. Näihin työkaluihin pohjautuen työssä omaksutaan palveluorientoitunut metodiikka, kun jokapaikan tietotekniikan palveluille suunnitellaan referenssimalli, jonka avulla voidaan määritellä teknisiä vaatimuksia ja joka voi muutenkin toimia ohjenuorana jokapaikan tietotekniikan palvelujen tutkimukselle ja tuotekehitykselle. Toiseksi työssä tutkitaan yhteisöllisesti koordinoidun multimedian ominaispiirteitä ja määritellään yhteisöllisesti koordinoidun multimedian (Community Coordinated Multimedia, CCM) käsite. Multimediasovellusten löydettävyyden ja kokoamisen mahdollisuuksien kartoittamiseen luodaan palveluorientoitunut CCM-malli (Service-oriented Community Coordinated Multimedia, SCCM). Työssä esitellään ”multimediasovellus palveluna” -idea, jonka käyttökelpoisuutta arvioidaan sisältöpohjaisen annotoinnin prototyyppiratkaisun avulla. Kolmanneksi työssä tutkitaan jokapaikan tietotekniikan palvelujen tilannetietoisuutta laajentamalla tilanteen ja tilannetietoisuuden määritelmiä. Tutkimus esittelee tilannetietoiseen jokapaikan tietotekniikan palvelujen kokoamiseen (Context-Aware Pervasive Service Composition, CAPSC) perustuvia sovelluksia ja määrittelee kolme tasoa tilannetietoisuudelle. Tämän viitekehyksen avulla toteutetaan tilannetietoinen palvelujen kokoamisen prototyyppi. Neljänneksi työssä arvioidaan jokapaikan tietotekniikan palvelujen kokoamisen mahdollisuuksia, tunnistetaan sen kaksi keskeistä toiminnallisuutta, palvelujen yhteistoiminnallisuus (service collaboration) ja palvelujen koordinointi (service coordination), sekä kehitetään ODPSC (Ontology-Driven Pervasive Service Composition) -ontologia. Työssä esitetään saavutettavuuden ja laajennettavuuden haasteisiin ratkaisuksi dynaaminen palvelujen kokoaminen pilvipalveluna. Työssä kehitetään kiihdytetty pilviarkkitehtuuri (CM4SC-välikerrosohjelmisto) palvelujen kokoamiseen pilvessä. Lopuksi työssä toteutetaan CM4SC-välikerrosohjelmiston palveluprototyyppi
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Heckmann, Benjamin. "Service quality and profit control in utility computing service life cycles." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/1568.
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Utility Computing is one of the most discussed business models in the context of Cloud Computing. Service providers are more and more pushed into the role of utilities by their customer's expectations. Subsequently, the demand for predictable service availability and pay-per-use pricing models increases. Furthermore, for providers, a new opportunity to optimise resource usage offers arises, resulting from new virtualisation techniques. In this context, the control of service quality and profit depends on a deep understanding of the representation of the relationship between business and technique. This research analyses the relationship between the business model of Utility Computing and Service-oriented Computing architectures hosted in Cloud environments. The relations are clarified in detail for the entire service life cycle and throughout all architectural layers. Based on the elaborated relations, an approach to a delivery framework is evolved, in order to enable the optimisation of the relation attributes, while the service implementation passes through business planning, development, and operations. Related work from academic literature does not cover the collected requirements on service offers in this context. This finding is revealed by a critical review of approaches in the fields of Cloud Computing, Grid Computing, and Application Clusters. The related work is analysed regarding appropriate provision architectures and quality assurance approaches. The main concepts of the delivery framework are evaluated based on a simulation model. To demonstrate the ability of the framework to model complex pay-per-use service cascades in Cloud environments, several experiments have been conducted. First outcomes proof that the contributions of this research undoubtedly enable the optimisation of service quality and profit in Cloud-based Service-oriented Computing architectures.
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Maarouf, Marwan Younes. "XML Integrated Environment For Service-Oriented Data Management." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1180450288.
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Bulut, Gulsah. "Service Discovery Oriented Clustering For Mobile And Adhoc Networks." Master's thesis, METU, 2010. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/2/12611889/index.pdf.
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Adhoc networks do not depend on any fixed infrastructure. The most outstanding
features of adhoc networks are non-centralized structure and dynamic topology
change due to high mobility. Since mentioned dynamics of mobile adhoc networks
complicate reaching the resources in the network, service discovery is significantly
an important part of constructing stand-alone and self-configurable mobile adhoc
networks. The heterogeneity of the devices and limited resources such as battery are
also load up more difficulty to service discovery.
Due to the volatile nature of the adhoc networks, service discovery algorithms
proposed for mobile and adhoc networks suffer from some problems. Scalability
becomes a problem when the service discovery is based on flooding messages over
the network. Furthermore, the high traffic which occurs due to the message
exchange between network nodes makes the communication almost impossible.
Partitioning a network into sub-networks is an efficient way of handling scalability
problem.
In this thesis, a mobility based service discovery algorithm for clustered
MANET is presented. The algorithm has two main parts. First one is for
partitioning the MANET into sub-networks, named &ldquoclustering&rdquo
. Second part is composed of an efficient discovery of services on overall network. Clustering algorithm used in this study is enhanced version of DMAC (Distributed Mobility Adaptive Clustering, which is one of the golden algorithms of the wireless network clustering area). To be fast and flexible in service discovery layer, a simple and fastresponding algorithm is implemented. Integration of two algorithms enables devices to be mobile in the network
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Ben, Mabrouk Nebil. "QoS-aware Service-Oriented Middleware for Pervasive Environments." Phd thesis, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris VI, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00786466.
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Pervasive computing is an intuitive evolution of computing paradigms driven by the wide adoption of mobile devices and wireless networks. It introduces a novel way to support users in their everyday life based on open and dynamic environments populated with unobtrusive services able to perform user tasks on the fly. Nevertheless, supporting user tasks from a functional point of view is not enough to gain the user's satisfaction. Users instead require that their tasks meet a certain Quality of Service (QoS) level. QoS is indeed an inherent and primary requisite of users going along with their required tasks. In the context of pervasive environments, fulfilling user tasks while delivering satisfactory QoS brings about several challenges that are mainly due to the openness, dynamics, and limited underlying resources of these environments. These challenges are mainly about (i) the lack of common QoS understanding among users and service providers, (ii) determining and integra- ting, on the fly, the services available in the environment and able to fulfill the functional and QoS requirements of users, and (iii) adapting the provided services at run-time to cope with QoS fluctuations and ensure meeting user requirements. To cope with the aforementioned issues, we opt for a middleware-based solution. Middle- ware represents indeed the appropriate software system to deal with common concerns of user applications such as QoS. In particular, we opt for a specific kind of middleware, viz., Ser- vice Oriented Middleware (SOM). SOM can leverage middleware technologies and the Service Oriented Computing (SOC) paradigm to enable pervasive environments as dynamic service en- vironments. Particularly, SOM can provide middleware services that allow for supporting QoS of user applications offered by pervasive environments. This thesis presents a QoS-aware service-oriented middleware for pervasive environments. The main contributions of this middleware are : (1) a semantic end-to-end QoS model that enables shared understanding of QoS in pervasive environments, (2) an efficient QoS-aware service composition approach allowing to build service compositions able to fulfill the user functional and QoS requirements, and (3) a QoS-driven adaptation approach to cope with QoS fluctuations during the execution of service compositions. The proposed contributions are implemented within a middleware platform called QASOM and their efficiency is validated based on experimental results.
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Campagna, Leonardo. "Message-Oriented-Middleware per Funzioni QoS-enabled in Contesto Serverless." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2021. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/24188/.
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Il Serverless Computing rappresenta un passo avanti nel campo dei servizi cloud in quanto permette di velocizzare lo sviluppo e il rilascio di applicazioni. Infatti, in questo modello di servizio, conosciuto anche con il nome di Function-as-a-Service (FaaS), gli sviluppatori non devono preoccuparsi del provisioning, dei server o delle configurazioni dell'infrastruttura, ma solo di creare funzioni che saranno eseguite in risposta a determinati eventi. Il modello ``pay-for-execution'', in cui i costi vengono addebitati solo per l'effettivo tempo di esecuzione delle funzioni, permette di ottenere alle aziende un Time-to-Market molto più rapido con un conseguente aumento della produttività.
Di particolare interesse per questo studio risultano essere Trigger ed Invoker, ovvero i due componenti che in ambito Serverless si occupano di innescare e eseguire le funzioni. Infatti, l'obiettivo di questa tesi è stato progettare ed implementare un Message-Oriented-Middleware (MoM) che permetta di ottenere qualità della comunicazione tra Trigger e Invoker attraverso lo sviluppo di un meccanismo di classificazione e prioritizzazione del traffico.
Nei risultati sperimentali, dove si è ipotizzato di avere due differenti classi di traffico con una più prioritaria dell'altra, si è verificata l'efficacia della soluzione proposta dove i dati collezionati hanno mostrato particolari benefici per la classe prioritaria in termini di latenze end-to-end e numero di pacchetti persi.
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VALE, Tassio Ferreira. "Using a Multi-Method Approach for Evaluating Service Identification Methods in Service-Oriented Product Lines." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFPE, 2012. https://repositorio.ufpe.br/handle/123456789/11360.
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A combinação de Linhas de Produto de Software (LPS) e Computação Orientada a Serviços (COS) tem recebido atenção de pesquisadores e praticantes, já que uma área é capaz de solucionar determinados problemas da outra. A junção dessas duas áreas é chamada de Linha de Produto Orientada a Serviços (LPOS), e tem se mostrado uma área de pesquisa emergente nos últimos anos. No contexto da Computação Orientada a Serviços, identificação de serviços é uma das primeiras atividades para modelagem de uma solução COS, e consiste na determinação de serviços candidatos. Essa não é uma tarefa trivial, e os erros adquiridos durante a identificação de um serviço pode propagar-se para as atividades subsequentes do processo de desenvolvimento orientado a serviços. Existem diversas propostas para identificação de serviços. Apesar da diversidade, não existe um método de identificação de serviços capaz de adequar-se a diversos contextos e necessidades. Considerando a heterogeneidade desses métodos, esta dissertação tem o objetivo de verificar quais métodos podem ser aplicados em linhas de produto de software, bem como as vantagens, desvantages e desafios existentes neste campo. Esta pesquisa utilizou uma abordagem multi-métodos, que combina estudos primários e secundários a fim de incrementar o corpo de conhecimento em determinada área baseada nos achados de tal investigação. Desta forma, este trabalho utilizou um método secundário (revisão sistemática) e dois métodos primários com o intuito de aumentar a confiabilidade dessa pesquisa. Além disso, foi realizada uma revisão da literatura a fim de coletar as abordagens de identificação de serviços existentes, visando propor uma recomendação dos métodos mais adequados considerando três cenários de LPS: top-down, bottom-up e hybrid. Esta recomendação foi avaliada através de um estudo de caso com uma linha de produto de sistemas médicos, usando dois metodos classificados no cenário o qual os sistemas médicos encontram-se, top-down. A principal contribuição dessa pesquisa é prover um instrumento que auxilie os interessados em identificar serviços a escolher um método apropriado, levando em consideração o cenário SPL a ser aplicado. Os resultados do estudo de caso mostram que as abordagens de identificação de serviços podem ser aplicadas num contexto de LPS. Além disso, este métodos facilitam a realização da atividade de identificação.
The combination of Software Product Line (SPL) and Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) have started to receive attention by researchers and practitioners, since they can address issues of each other. Putting these two areas together is called Service-Oriented Product Lines Enginering (SOPLE), presenting itself as an emerging area in the last years. In the Service-Oriented Computing, service identification is one of the first activities in the modeling of a SOC solution, that consists of determining candidate services. This is not a trivial task, and the errors made during the identification can propagate mistakes to the next activities of the service-oriented development process. There are several proposals addressing service identification for several contexts. However, an unified method for identifying services has not yet been reached. Regarding the heterogeneity of these methods, this dissertation aims to verify which methods can be applied in the SPL context, the advantages, disadvantages and the existing challenges of this field. This research used a multi-method approach that combines primary and secondary studies in order to increase the availability of empirical knowledge based on the findings of the investigation. Thus, this work used one secondary method (systematic review) and two primary methods (survey and case study) to address it. Furthermore, it was performed a literature review in order to collect all existing approaches of service identification, aiming to propose a set of decision models that recommend the most suitable methods according to three SPL scenarios: bottom-up, topdown and hybrid, onde decision model for each scenario. One of the decision models was evaluated through a case study in a medical applications domain, using two approaches classified in the decision model of the top-down scenario. The main contribution of this research is to provide an instrument that can help the service identification stakeholders to choose a suitable method, taking consideration of their SPL scenarios. In addition, these systematic methods facilitate the application of the identification activity. The case study results evaluated some service identification approaches and presented evidence that the methods can be applied in SPL.
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Catherine, Catherine. "Simulation and Measurement of Non-Functional Properties of Web Services in a Service Market to Improve User Value." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för datavetenskap (DV), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-31351.
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Lage, Freitas André. "Autonomous service execution driven by service-level agreements." Rennes, INSA, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012ISAR0003.
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Des services numériques sont utilisés pour concevoir des applications reparties en abstrayant des logiciels et ressources virtuelles. La relation entre les services est définie par des accords au niveau de service (SLA) qui décrivent la Qualité de Service (QoS). Dans ce contexte, le défi est de gérer l'exécution des services en respectant la QoS. En premier lieu, ces services s'exécutent sur des environnements dynamiques et distribués. Ensuite, des buts de haut-niveau tels que la QoS et le prix du service doivent être traduits afin de configurer le système. Cette thèse propose une solution autonome pour gérer l'exécution des services sur des infrastructures distribuées. Plus précisément, l'exécution des services vise à garantir la QoS ainsi que l'augmentation du gain du fournisseur. Cette thèse décrit la conception et la mise en oeuvre du canevas Qu4DS qui supporte le cycle de vie des SLA. De plus, Qu4DS offre un support de haut niveau pour des développeurs de services. Les résultats expérimentaux sur la grille Grid5OOO valident la contribution de cette thèseServices enable building loosely-coupled and dynamic applications in distributed environments. Service-Level Agreements (SLAs) are used to define service relationships by describing how services should behave. Moreover, SLAs include the Quality of Service (QoS) thal should be delivered along with the service. However, managing service executions on top of distributed infrastructure while meeting agreed QoS is challenging. Firstly, QoS metrics should be mapped to low-level system configurations in order to enable building QoS assurance mechanisms. Secondly, service execution should deal with failures and load variations. Ln addition to these issues, service execution should be driven by pricing aspects since profit increase is an important concern for service providers. Current approaches thal handle service execution support neither the whole SLA life-cycle nor profit augmentation. This thesis proposes an autonomous solution for managing service execution in distributed infrastructures by aiming at increasing the provider profit. Ln particular, this thesis supports the full SLA lifecycle based on: (i) SLA translation under pricing constraints; (ii) mechanisms which ensure fault-tolerant and performance QoS; and (iii) resource acquisition and allocation driven by contract proposais and requests. Ln order to realize this solution, this thesis describes the design and implementation of the Qu4DS (Quality Assurance for Distributed Services) framework. Qu4DS includes a rich set of SLA management functionalities thal provides a higher-level support for service developers. Moreover, Qu4DS is evaluated on top of Grid5OOO and the results show that Qu4DS is able to increase the provider profit while meeting SLAs in different scenarios
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Carlsson, Jimmy. "Sustainability and service-oriented systems in network-centric environments." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för programvaruteknik och datavetenskap, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-5820.
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Our modern information society provides us with a tremendous amount of information. Several issues have surfaced due to the complexity inherent in the handling of the information systems. One of the most important issues is that of providing an architecture and methodology that provide for the development and maintenance of complex, distributed information systems. As the information flow and quantity hinders us from having qualitative information when needed, the architecture must address the reach, richness and value of the information. Network-centric warfare is a problem domain that has been initiated to meet the power of information. To be able to support such continouos sustainability, a robust network infrastructure is critical. A systemic perspective on network-centric environments as well as a technical perspective on network-centric environment shows that, although promising, contemporary implementations having a service-oriented architecture lack support for physical scalability and a cognitive decoupling that would provide for multiple users acting on the same environment. Consequently, a service-oriented layered architecture for communicating entities is presented where these issues are addressed. For verification, a demonstrator is developed upon a service-oriented layered architecture for communicating based on a network-centric warfare scenario.
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Liu, Ruimin. "An agent-based service-oriented approach to evolving legacy software systems into a pervasive computing environment." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/4023.
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This thesis focuses on an Agent-Based Service-Oriented approach to evolving legacy system into a Pervasive Computing environment. The methodology consists of multiple phases: using reverse engineering techniques to comprehend and decompose legacy systems, employing XML and Web Services to transform and represent a legacy system as pervasive services, and integrating these pervasive services into pervasive computing environments with agent based integration technology. A legacy intelligent building system is used as a case study for experiments with the approach, which demonstrates that the proposed approach has the ability to evolve legacy systems into pervasive service environments seamlessly. Conclusion is drawn based on analysis and further research directions are also discussed.
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Falk, Sebastian, and Andriy Shyshka. "The Cloud Marketplace : A Capability-Based Framework for Cloud Ecosystem Governance." Thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, IHH, Informatik, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-23968.
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Within the last five years, the market of cloud computing has shown rapid growth. However, despite the increasing popularity, researchers highlight numerous concerns regarding limited interoperability of systems hosted by different cloud providers as well as restricted customization of cloud solutions. In order to counter aforemen-tioned challenges, this study investigates the idea of introducing a marketplace for cloud services that leverage the service-oriented architecture (SOA) paradigm and of-fers software solutions, computing capabilities from cloud providers, components developed by third parties, as well as access to integration and audit services. The goal of the study lies in conceptualizing the idea and the evaluation of demand it may raise from the key cloud actors. In this regard, existing frameworks of cloud compu-ting and SOA contributed to the development of an initial model that was further improved through the interviewing process. The results of this study include a capa-bility-based framework for the cloud marketplace which not only clarifies the role and activities of the different actors but also contains the necessary features of the marketplace that are needed to ensure the proper workflow. In addition to that, the actors’ incentives and concerns regarding the marketplace were analyzed by applying SWOT-analysis. While the analysis revealed both positive interest and present de-mand among the actors, the identified weaknesses and threats highlight the need for further investigations in order to put the idea into practice.
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Kongdenfha, Woralak Computer Science & Engineering Faculty of Engineering UNSW. "Pattern-based data and application integration in service oriented architectures." Awarded By:University of New South Wales. Computer Science & Engineering, 2009. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/42600.
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The success of Web services comes from the benefits that it brings in reducing the cost and the time needed to develop data and applications by reusing them, and simplifying their integrations through standardization. However, standardization in Web services does not remove the need for adapters due to possible heterogeneity among service interface and protocol definitions. Moreover, the current service APIs are targeted toward professional programmers, but not accessible to a wider class of users without programming expertise, but would never the less like to build their own integrated applications. In this dissertation, we propose methods and tools to support both service developers and non-expert users in their data and application integration tasks. To support service developers, we propose a framework that enables rapid development of Web service adapters. We investigate particularly the problem of service adaptation focusing on business interface and protocol layers. Our study shows that many differences between business interfaces and protocols are recurring. We introduce mismatch patterns to capture these recurring differences and provide solutions to resolve them. We present the notion of adaptation aspects, which is based on the aspect-oriented programming paradigm, to enable rapid development and deployment of service adapters. We also present a comparative study between standalone and aspect-oriented adapters development. The study shows that the aspect-oriented approach is preferable in many cases, especially when adapters need to access internal states of services. The proposed approach is implemented in a prototype tool, which is used to illustrate how it simplifies adapters development through a case study. To support users without programming expertise, we propose a spreadsheet-based Web mashups development framework, which enables users to develop mashups in the popular spreadsheet environment. First, we provide a mechanism that makes structured data first class values of spreadsheet cells. Second, we propose a new component model that can be used to develop fairly sophisticated mashups, involving joining data sources and keeping spreadsheet data up to date. Third, to simplify mashup development, we provide a collection of spreadsheet-based mashup patterns that captures common Web data access and spreadsheet presentation functionalities. Users can reuse and customize these patterns to build spreadsheet-based Web mashups instead of developing them from scratch. Fourth, we enable users to manipulate structured data presented on spreadsheet in a drag-and-drop fashion. Finally, we have developed and tested a prototype tool to demonstrate the utility of the proposed framework.
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Gonzalez, Valenzuela Sergio. "A service-oriented approach to topology formation and resource discovery in wireless ad-hoc networks." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/745.
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The past few years have witnessed a significant evolution in mobile computing and communications, in which new trends and applications have the traditional role of computer networks into that of distributed service providers. In this thesis we explore an alternative way to form wireless ad-hoc networks whose topologies can be customized as required by the users’ software applications. In particular, we investigate the applicability of mobile codes to networks created by devices equipped with Bluetooth technology. Computer simulations results suggest that our proposed approach can achieve this task effectively, while matching the level of efficiency seen in other salient proposals in this area.
This thesis also addresses the issue of service discovery in mobile ad-hoc networks. We propose the use of a directory whose network location varies in an attempt to reduce traffic overhead driven by users’ hosts looking for service information. We refer to this scheme as the Service Directory Placement Algorithm, or SDPA. We formulate the directory relocation problem as a Markov Decision Process that is solved by using Q-learning. Performance evaluations through computer simulations reveal bandwidth overhead reductions that range between 40% and 48% when compared with a basic broadcast flooding approach for networks comprising hosts moving at pedestrian speeds. We then extend our proposed approach and introduce a multi-directory service discovery system called the Service Directory Placement Protocol, or SDPP. Our findings reveal bandwidth overhead reductions typically ranging from 15% to 75% in networks comprising slow-moving hosts with restricted memory availability.
In the fourth and final part of this work, we present the design foundations and architecture of a middleware system that called WISEMAN – WIreless Sensors Employing Mobile Agents. We employ WISEMAN for dispatching and processing mobile programs in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Our proposed system enables the dynamic creation of semantic relationships between network nodes that cooperate to provide an aggregate service. We present discussions on the advantages of our proposed approach, and in particular, how WISEMAN facilitates the realization of service-oriented tasks in WSNs.
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Li, Juan. "Business as a service multi-layer governance architecture." Thesis, Lyon, INSA, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014ISAL0027/document.
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Pour faire face aux enjeux d’une économie mondialisée, aux fluctuations du marché et aux changements de la demande (personnalisation massive, qualité…), les entreprises recourent de plus en plus aux stratégies de collaboration et d’organisation en réseau et adoptent des stratégies orientées « produit/service ». Cette tendance est renforcée par le développement des applications du Web 2.0 (voire 3.0?) et l’adoption d’architectures orientées services permettant d’augmenter l’interopérabilité et l’agilité des systèmes d’information. En outre, les possibilités offertes par le Cloud Computing permet de rendre le déploiement plus flexible. En parallèle, le développement de stratégies industrielles comme le « lean manufacturing » et le 6-Sigmas permet d’améliorer les procédés, l’organisation industrielle elle-même et la qualité des produits. L’objectif de ce travail de recherche est de coupler la vision « industrielle » à la vision « système d’information » traditionnelle pour permettre de mettre en place un modèle de services industriels composables, orchestrables et « gouvernables ». Pour cela, nous proposons de mettre en place une architecxture de gouvernance globale « connectant » les différentes couches du système (métier/industriel, service, plateforme et infrastructure), permettant d’améliorer la gouvernance du système globale (en évitant les incohérences liées à une prise en compte et une optimisation « isolée » des différents facteurs de performance) tant au niveau organisationnel que technologique. Ceci pourrait permettre d’améliorer les performances tant au niveau « métier » que « technologique », augmenter l’agilité du système et supporter plus efficacement les stratégies de collaboration en développant une approche basée sur la sélection / composition / orchestration de services métier industrielsDue to the renewed globalised economical environment and the market evolution (mass customization, sustainability requirements…) the call for developing product-service strategy becomes a major stake, leading industrial companies to set collaborative business organizations and develop business services. This trend has been favored by the large-scale IT environment provided by the web 2.0 and by the development of interoperable and rather agile IT technologies based on services leading to SOA-based information systems reorganization. At the same time, lean and six sigma theories have also been used in industries to improve the industrial process itself so that profitability, quality and reputation are increased. As a new economical and technical model, Cloud Computing has generated a tremendous amount of interest and excitement in recent years as it gives a new and useful way to address IT challenges To achieve the primary goals of these technologies, concepts and models, an efficient industrial organization governance method is necessary. We propose a flexible, efficient, low cost monitoring strategy, it can couple the different layers of economic ecosystem (including business strategies, business/industrial/IT services, execution platforms and infrastructure means) it can overcome existing industrial governance architectures’ limits (most of them are rather “fixed” and lack agility, overall perspective governance as they have unilateral perspective), and it could drive the industry towards better practices, improve ability of enterprises to cope with changes from both a technical and an organizational point of view, as well as reinforce external and internal collaborative work of enterprises
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Shehu, Umar Galadima. "Novel optimization schemes for service composition in the cloud using learning automata-based matrix factorization." Thesis, University of Bedfordshire, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10547/610618.
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Service Oriented Computing (SOC) provides a framework for the realization of loosely couple service oriented applications (SOA). Web services are central to the concept of SOC. They possess several benefits which are useful to SOA e.g. encapsulation, loose coupling and reusability. Using web services, an application can embed its functionalities within the business process of other applications. This is made possible through web service composition. Web services are composed to provide more complex functions for a service consumer in the form of a value added composite service. Currently, research into how web services can be composed to yield QoS (Quality of Service) optimal composite service has gathered significant attention. However, the number and services has risen thereby increasing the number of possible service combinations and also amplifying the impact of network on composite service performance. QoS-based service composition in the cloud addresses two important sub-problems; Prediction of network performance between web service nodes in the cloud, and QoS-based web service composition. We model the former problem as a prediction problem while the later problem is modelled as an NP-Hard optimization problem due to its complex, constrained and multi-objective nature. This thesis contributed to the prediction problem by presenting a novel learning automata-based non-negative matrix factorization algorithm (LANMF) for estimating end-to-end network latency of a composition in the cloud. LANMF encodes each web service node as an automaton which allows v it to estimate its network coordinate in such a way that prediction error is minimized. Experiments indicate that LANMF is more accurate than current approaches. The thesis also contributed to the QoS-based service composition problem by proposing four evolutionary algorithms; a network-aware genetic algorithm (INSGA), a K-mean based genetic algorithm (KNSGA), a multi-population particle swarm optimization algorithm (NMPSO), and a non-dominated sort fruit fly algorithm (NFOA). The algorithms adopt different evolutionary strategies coupled with LANMF method to search for low latency and QoSoptimal solutions. They also employ a unique constraint handling method used to penalize solutions that violate user specified QoS constraints. Experiments demonstrate the efficiency and scalability of the algorithms in a large scale environment. Also the algorithms outperform other evolutionary algorithms in terms of optimality and calability. In addition, the thesis contributed to QoS-based web service composition in a dynamic environment. This is motivated by the ineffectiveness of the four proposed algorithms in a dynamically hanging QoS environment such as a real world scenario. Hence, we propose a new cellular automata-based genetic algorithm (CellGA) to address the issue. Experimental results show the effectiveness of CellGA in solving QoS-based service composition in dynamic QoS environment.
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Aygalinc, Colin. "Un modèle à composant pour la gestion de contextes pervasifs orientés service." Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE), 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017GREAM079/document.
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L'informatique pervasive promeut une vision d'un cadre dans lequel un patchwork de ressources hétérogènes et volatiles est intégré dans les environnements du quotidien. Ces ressources, matérielles ou logicielles, coopèrent de manière transparente, souvent aux travers d'applications, pour fournir des services à haute valeur ajoutée adaptés à chaque utilisateur et son environnement, grâce à la notion de contexte. Ces applications sont déployées dans un large spectre d'environnements d'exécution, allant d'infrastructures distantes de Cloud Computing jusqu'au plus près de l'utilisateur dans des passerelles Fog Computing ou directement dans les capteurs du réseau. Dans ces travaux, nous nous intéressons spécifiquement au module de contexte d'une plateforme Fog Computing. Pour faciliter la conception et l'exécution des applications Fog Computing, une approche populaire est de les bâtir au dessus d'une plateforme adoptant l'architecture à service, ce qui permet de réduire leur complexité et simplifie la gestion du dynamisme. Dans nos travaux, nous proposons d'étendre cette approche en modélisant le contexte comme un ensemble de descriptions de services, disponible à la conception, et exposé dynamiquement par le module de contexte à l'exécution, selon les besoins des applications et l'état de l'environnement. Ce module est programmé à l'aide d'un modèle à composant spécifique. L'unité de base de notre modèle à composant est l'entité de contexte, qui est composé de modules hautement cohérents implémentant distinctement les spécifications des services proposées par l'entité de contexte. Ces modules peuvent décrire de manière simple leur logique de synchronisation avec les sources de contexte distantes grâce à un langage dédié à ce domaine. A l'exécution, les instances d'entitées de contexte sont rendues introspectables et reconfigurables dynamiquement, ce qui permet, grâce à un manager autonomique externe, de veiller à la satisfaction des besoins des applications. Nous avons développé une implémentation de référence de ce modèle à composant, nommée CReAM, qui a pu être utilisée dans la passerelle domotique iCASA, développée en partenariat avec Orange LabsPervasive computing promotes environments where a patchwork of heterogeneous and volatile resources are integrated in places of daily life. These hardware and software resources cooperate in a transparent way, through applications, in order to provide high valueadded services. These services are adapted to each user and its environment, via the notion of context. Pervasive applications are now widely distributed, from distant cloud facilities down to Fog Computing gateway or even in sensors, near the user. Depending on the localization, various forms of context are needed by the applications. In this thesis, we focus on the context module at Fog Level. In order to simplify the design and execution, Fog applications are built on top of a service-oriented platform, freeing the developer of technical complexity and providing a support to handle the dynamism. We propose to extend this approach by providing the context as a set of service descriptions, available at design to the application developer. At runtime, depending on the context sources availability and on application current needs, context services are published or withdrawn inside the platform by the context module. We tailor a specific component model to program this context module. The base unit of our component model is called context entity. It is composed of highly coherent modules, implementing distinctly each service description proposed by the underlying context entity. These modules can simply describe their synchronization logic with context sources thanks to a domain specific language. At runtime, context entity instances can be introspected and reconfigured. An external autonomic manager uses these properties to match dynamically the context services exposed by the context module to the application needs. We have developed a reference implementation of our work, called CReAM, which can be used in a smart home gateway called iCASA, developed in a partnership with Orange Labs
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Ugaas, Ahmed A. "WS-CDL Based Specification for Web Services Collaboration Testing." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2008. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/cs_theses/54.
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Service Oriented Computing(SOC) is becoming a major paradigm for developing next generation of software systems, and one of the major challenges of Service Oriented Computing is testing interactions and collaborations among the distributed and dynamically integrated web services. To support automated test of web service‟s collaborations, a formal specification is needed. This thesis proposes a specification of web services collaborations based on Web Services Choreography Description Language (WS-CDL). We identify the basic constructs that can be found in any web services collaboration, and we mapped them to the new WS-CDL based language (WS-CDL+). Finally, A scenario of web services collaboration is developed and specification in WS-CDL+ is provided. This work builds a foundation for automated web services testing in a service oriented computing environment.
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Faure, Matthieu. "Management of scenarized user-centric service compositions for collaborative pervasive environments." Thesis, Montpellier 2, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012MON20110/document.
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L'informatique pervasive (ou ubiquitaire) est un support pour des environnements contenant denombreux objets (ou dispositifs) disséminés, équipés d'électronique et interconnectés. Ces dispositifsfournissent un accès distant à une multitude de fonctionnalités qui nous aident dans notre vie quotidienne.Les Architectures Orientées Services sont adaptées à la conception de logiciels pervasifs. En effet,chaque dispositif fournit son propre ensemble de fonctionnalités sous la forme de services. Ainsi, enl'absence de mécanisme complémentaire, les utilisateurs se trouvent limités à utiliser les servicesisolément alors que leurs besoins correspondent à des scénarios qui impliquent une composition demultiples services offerts par plusieurs appareils.Dans cette thèse, nous défendons qu'un système pervasif doit : d'une part, permettre aux utilisateursd'exprimer facilement leurs besoins en créant des scénarios et d'autre part, proposer à ses utilisateursune représentation et des moyens de gestion de leur contexte afin qu'ils puissent tirer le meilleur parti deleur environnement et de ses changements. De plus, la présence de plusieurs utilisateurs implique lanécessité de collaborer. Par ailleurs, l'exécution de scénarios doit être résiliente aux changementsenvironnementaux et aux actions des utilisateurs. Elle doit ainsi s'adapter dynamiquement et, si possible,tirer profit du contexte et des changements de l'environnement.Notre contribution, nommée SaS (Scenarios as Services), répond à ces objectifs. Elle propose uneapproche interopérable capable de s'adapter à l'environnement. Elle fournit une représentation persistanteet personnalisable du contexte et inclut un langage de description de scénarios destiné aux utilisateurs.Ces scénarios sont facilement contrôlables, personnalisables et réutilisables. Elle planifie l'exécution pasà pas des scénarios, afin de s'adapter aux changements de l'environnement et de bénéficier desavantages de la mobilité des utilisateurs (exécution d'un scénario, dans la durée, sur plusieurs lieux).Enfin, elle inclut le partage de scénarios qui permet aux utilisateurs de collaborer. Un prototype de SaS,basé sur des normes industrielles (telle qu'OSGi), prouve la faisabilité de notre contribution et nouspermet de l'évaluer sur un cas d'étude simplePervasive (or ubiquitous) computing is a paradigm for environments containing distributedinterconnected devices that embed electronics. These devices provide a remote access to numerousfunctionalities that assist us in our daily life. Service-Oriented Architectures are suitable to design softwarefor pervasive environments. Indeed, each device provides its own set of functionalities as services.Without any extra mechanism, users can only use a single service at a time. Nevertheless, their needsusually correspond to scenarios which involve a composition of multiple services, provided by multipledevices.In this thesis, we advocate that a pervasive system must, on the one hand, enable users to easily expresstheir needs through scenario creation and, on the other hand, propose to users a representation of theircontext so that they can benefit from both their environment and its changes. In addition, the presence ofseveral users implies that users must be able to collaborate.Our contribution, named SaS (Scenarios as Services), fulfils these requirements. It proposes aninteroperable approach that adapts to its environment. It provides users with a customizable andpersistent representation of their context and includes a scenario description language targeted to users.Scenarios are easy to control, customize and reuse. SaS schedules the step-by-step execution ofscenarios to adapt to environmental changes and benefit from user mobility (scenario execution split over time on successive distinct sites). Finally, SaS includes scenario sharing mechanisms which are abasis for collaboration. A prototype of SaS, based on industrial standards (e.g., OSGi), proves thefeasibility of our contribution and serves for its evaluation on a simple use case
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Farooq, Khan H. M. "Engineering of Context Dependent Quality of Service (QoS)." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Avdelningen för för interaktion och systemdesign, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-5553.
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The service oriented computing paradigm is a new model for distributed computing and due to its simplicity and powerful features, it is being popular and has a wide variety of implementation in different scenarios. The already built system is studies in detail, which was totally implemented using the Grid Technology. The idea of the current work is how we can implement the same functionality in the non-real time environment. The basic idea is to merge the web services and grid services to formulate the unique concept of context dependent quality of service (QoS) for both real time and non-real time solutions. When we merge these different types of services, the main focusing point is to define the service level agreement (SLA) when these different qualified services want to interact with each other. This document discusses and formulates the theoretical aspects, which in future work, can be consider for the practical implementation.
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Papageorgiou, Apostolos [Verfasser], Ralf [Akademischer Betreuer] Steinmetz, and Claudia [Akademischer Betreuer] Linnhoff-Popien. "Service-Oriented Computing with Wireless Participants - Adaptation Mechanisms and Decision Support for Lightweight Web Service Consumption / Apostolos Papageorgiou. Betreuer: Ralf Steinmetz ; Claudia Linnhoff-Popien." Darmstadt : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt, 2012. http://d-nb.info/1106116054/34.
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Neyem, Coronado Hugo Andrés. "Un Framework de Apoyo al Desarrollo de Sistemas de Groupware para Infraestructuras Móviles de Comunicaciones." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2008. http://www.repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/103004.
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