Zhangbing Zhou, Sami Bhiri, Walid Gaaloul, Lei Shu, Laurentiu A. Vasiliu, M. Hauswirth
Web service interactions lie in the core of SOA. Due to the autonomy, heterogeneity and continuous evolution of Web services, mediators are usually needed to support service interactions to overcome possible mismatches that may exist among business processes. In this paper, we introduce a space-based architecture for process mediator which considers both control-flow and data-flow, present possible mismatch patterns, and suggest how they can be automatically mediated. Our work can be used to perform runtime mediation and thus to facilitate service interactions.
{"title":"Developing Process Mediator for Web Service Interactions","authors":"Zhangbing Zhou, Sami Bhiri, Walid Gaaloul, Lei Shu, Laurentiu A. Vasiliu, M. Hauswirth","doi":"10.1109/ICWS.2008.126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICWS.2008.126","url":null,"abstract":"Web service interactions lie in the core of SOA. Due to the autonomy, heterogeneity and continuous evolution of Web services, mediators are usually needed to support service interactions to overcome possible mismatches that may exist among business processes. In this paper, we introduce a space-based architecture for process mediator which considers both control-flow and data-flow, present possible mismatch patterns, and suggest how they can be automatically mediated. Our work can be used to perform runtime mediation and thus to facilitate service interactions.","PeriodicalId":275591,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE International Conference on Web Services","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123169404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper explores the use of rationale for understanding the context of reputation information so as to facilitate the exchange and transfer of reputation information across distributed heterogeneous reputation systems for selection of the best service for a particular user's requirements.
{"title":"Explaining Reputation for Informed Web Services Selection","authors":"W. Sherchan, S. Krishnaswamy, S. Loke","doi":"10.1109/ICWS.2008.94","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICWS.2008.94","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores the use of rationale for understanding the context of reputation information so as to facilitate the exchange and transfer of reputation information across distributed heterogeneous reputation systems for selection of the best service for a particular user's requirements.","PeriodicalId":275591,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE International Conference on Web Services","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126651030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A common architecture in today's development of distributed systems is the service-oriented architecture (SOA) implemented using Web services. Until recently, it was difficult to build a SOA based grid/distributed system using Web services due to the inability to learn the state of services. The state of a Web service could only be accessed through specialized clients and/or services. Should the specialized client or service fail, the state can't be accessed. This paper shows the innovative resources via Web instances (RVWI) framework. RVWI grants to web services the ability to show the state of dynamic resources in their WSDL. This was achieved via software components called connectors which watch for any changes in a resource and updates the web service. The significance of this report is the support for resources which can change state between requests and the innovation is the improvement of state updates between the service and discovery services.
{"title":"Publishing Dynamic State Changes of Resources through State Aware WSDL","authors":"Michael Brock, A. Goscinski","doi":"10.1109/ICWS.2008.73","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICWS.2008.73","url":null,"abstract":"A common architecture in today's development of distributed systems is the service-oriented architecture (SOA) implemented using Web services. Until recently, it was difficult to build a SOA based grid/distributed system using Web services due to the inability to learn the state of services. The state of a Web service could only be accessed through specialized clients and/or services. Should the specialized client or service fail, the state can't be accessed. This paper shows the innovative resources via Web instances (RVWI) framework. RVWI grants to web services the ability to show the state of dynamic resources in their WSDL. This was achieved via software components called connectors which watch for any changes in a resource and updates the web service. The significance of this report is the support for resources which can change state between requests and the innovation is the improvement of state updates between the service and discovery services.","PeriodicalId":275591,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE International Conference on Web Services","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115819594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
We study the access control integration problem for web services. Organizations frequently use many services, each with its own access control policies, which must interoperate while maintaining secure access to information. The integration problem is to take the set of such services and to find a globally consistent access control policy that ensures that the system composed from the services does not have any authorization failures or information disclosures. We give a sound and complete algorithm for access control integration by reducing the problem to Boolean constraint solving. We have implemented ROLEMATCHER, a tool to infer global role-based access control schemas for a set of services, and show on examples that it can quickly infer global roles for composed systems, or determine the absence of a globally consistent role schema.
{"title":"A Theory of Role Composition","authors":"Jeffrey M. Fischer, R. Majumdar","doi":"10.1109/ICWS.2008.40","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICWS.2008.40","url":null,"abstract":"We study the access control integration problem for web services. Organizations frequently use many services, each with its own access control policies, which must interoperate while maintaining secure access to information. The integration problem is to take the set of such services and to find a globally consistent access control policy that ensures that the system composed from the services does not have any authorization failures or information disclosures. We give a sound and complete algorithm for access control integration by reducing the problem to Boolean constraint solving. We have implemented ROLEMATCHER, a tool to infer global role-based access control schemas for a set of services, and show on examples that it can quickly infer global roles for composed systems, or determine the absence of a globally consistent role schema.","PeriodicalId":275591,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE International Conference on Web Services","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124997247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. E. Haddad, Maude Manouvrier, Guillermo Ramirez, M. Rukoz
Web services composition has been gaining interest over the last years as it leverages the capabilities to offer complex operations resulting from the aggregation of Web services offered by different organizations. As composite Web services are often long-running, loosely coupled and cross-organizational applications, advanced transactional support is required to ensure reliable execution. In addition, in the presence of multiple Web services with equivalent functionality, users will discriminate the alternatives based on their quality of service (QoS). This paper address the issue of selecting and composing Web services not only according to their functional requirements but also to their transactional properties and QoS characteristics defined using a quality model. In this model, Web services are selected in a way that satisfies user preferences. These preferences are expressed as weights over QoS criterion and as risk level defining semantically the transactional requirements.
{"title":"QoS-Driven Selection of Web Services for Transactional Composition","authors":"J. E. Haddad, Maude Manouvrier, Guillermo Ramirez, M. Rukoz","doi":"10.1109/ICWS.2008.116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICWS.2008.116","url":null,"abstract":"Web services composition has been gaining interest over the last years as it leverages the capabilities to offer complex operations resulting from the aggregation of Web services offered by different organizations. As composite Web services are often long-running, loosely coupled and cross-organizational applications, advanced transactional support is required to ensure reliable execution. In addition, in the presence of multiple Web services with equivalent functionality, users will discriminate the alternatives based on their quality of service (QoS). This paper address the issue of selecting and composing Web services not only according to their functional requirements but also to their transactional properties and QoS characteristics defined using a quality model. In this model, Web services are selected in a way that satisfies user preferences. These preferences are expressed as weights over QoS criterion and as risk level defining semantically the transactional requirements.","PeriodicalId":275591,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE International Conference on Web Services","volume":"159 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134218082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
We propose a dynamic mechanism, thread count adaptation, that adjusts the thread counts that are allocated to services for adapting to CPU requirement variations in SMP environments. Our goal is to increase the maximum throughput available on a system that has multiple dynamic content services while meeting different service time criteria for these services in dynamic workloads. Our challenge is to significantly improve response times for dynamic content on a busy well-tuned thread-pool-based system without prioritizing any specific services. Our experiments demonstrate that a prototype using our approach on J2EE middleware quickly (around every 20 ms) adjusted the thread counts for the services and that it improved the average 90th-percentile response times by up to 27% (and 22% on average) for the SPECjAppServer2004 benchmark.
{"title":"Dynamic Thread Count Adaptation for Multiple Services in SMP Environments","authors":"T. Ogasawara","doi":"10.1109/ICWS.2008.47","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICWS.2008.47","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a dynamic mechanism, thread count adaptation, that adjusts the thread counts that are allocated to services for adapting to CPU requirement variations in SMP environments. Our goal is to increase the maximum throughput available on a system that has multiple dynamic content services while meeting different service time criteria for these services in dynamic workloads. Our challenge is to significantly improve response times for dynamic content on a busy well-tuned thread-pool-based system without prioritizing any specific services. Our experiments demonstrate that a prototype using our approach on J2EE middleware quickly (around every 20 ms) adjusted the thread counts for the services and that it improved the average 90th-percentile response times by up to 27% (and 22% on average) for the SPECjAppServer2004 benchmark.","PeriodicalId":275591,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE International Conference on Web Services","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134279548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In this paper we propose a meta-model for nonfunctional property descriptions targeted to support the selection of Web Services. The approach is based on the explicit distinction between NFP offered by providers and requested by users, on the concept of policy that aggregates NFP descriptions into single entities with an applicability condition, and finally on a set of constraint operators, which is particularly relevant for NFP requests. The semantic meta-model embracing the above perspective is defined by a BNF syntax whose semantics is formalized by an ontology. The ontology has been formalized in OWL-DL and WSML to provide for logical syntax. The logic upon which the meta-model supports NFP-based selection is discussed in the paper.
{"title":"A Meta-model for Non-functional Property Descriptions of Web Services","authors":"F. D. Paoli, M. Palmonari, M. Comerio, A. Maurino","doi":"10.1109/ICWS.2008.97","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICWS.2008.97","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we propose a meta-model for nonfunctional property descriptions targeted to support the selection of Web Services. The approach is based on the explicit distinction between NFP offered by providers and requested by users, on the concept of policy that aggregates NFP descriptions into single entities with an applicability condition, and finally on a set of constraint operators, which is particularly relevant for NFP requests. The semantic meta-model embracing the above perspective is defined by a BNF syntax whose semantics is formalized by an ontology. The ontology has been formalized in OWL-DL and WSML to provide for logical syntax. The logic upon which the meta-model supports NFP-based selection is discussed in the paper.","PeriodicalId":275591,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE International Conference on Web Services","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115785158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Web services have been widely used to support context-aware applications for context information retrieval in a ubiquitous environment. However, most of the existing research efforts in this field only focus on using SOAP web service as an enabling technology. In this paper, we compare REST and SOAP web services for supporting ubiquitous environments. We describe our approaches to deploy an open ubiquitous computing environment using REST style services along with semantic web and mobile technologies. We also discuss an example context-aware application developed for the environment and show how REST style services can contribute in moving ubiquitous computing technologies into the real world.
{"title":"Realizing an Open Ubiquitous Environment in a RESTful Way","authors":"Yong Liu, Kay Connelly","doi":"10.1109/ICWS.2008.64","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICWS.2008.64","url":null,"abstract":"Web services have been widely used to support context-aware applications for context information retrieval in a ubiquitous environment. However, most of the existing research efforts in this field only focus on using SOAP web service as an enabling technology. In this paper, we compare REST and SOAP web services for supporting ubiquitous environments. We describe our approaches to deploy an open ubiquitous computing environment using REST style services along with semantic web and mobile technologies. We also discuss an example context-aware application developed for the environment and show how REST style services can contribute in moving ubiquitous computing technologies into the real world.","PeriodicalId":275591,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE International Conference on Web Services","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123251237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Distributed SOA computing environments usually use SOAP intermediaries that sit between senders and receivers to mediate SOAP messages. The intermediaries may add support services to the SOAP message exchange, such as routing, logging, and security. The typical processing by a SOAP intermediary is parsing the incoming SOAP messages, checking the data in each message, and then serializing the messages to put them back into the network. DOM is one of the popular interfaces to navigate an XML tree. Existing DOM implementations are not efficient for SOAP intermediary processing. Existing DOM implementations parse XML data to create tree data and traverse the tree data for serialization. Typically, a SOAP intermediary rarely modifies the tree data. In such situations, creating the tree data and serializing it back into XML data is computationally expensive. We propose a DOM implementation based on a hybrid data representation that uses both literal XML and DOM objects. In our implementation, a SOAP intermediary stores the original literal XML representation and reuses it to avoid traversing all of the tree data during serialization. We prototyped the DOM implementation and evaluated its performance.
{"title":"Lazy XML Parsing/Serialization Based on Literal and DOM Hybrid Representation","authors":"Toshiro Takase, Keishi Tajima","doi":"10.1109/ICWS.2008.89","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICWS.2008.89","url":null,"abstract":"Distributed SOA computing environments usually use SOAP intermediaries that sit between senders and receivers to mediate SOAP messages. The intermediaries may add support services to the SOAP message exchange, such as routing, logging, and security. The typical processing by a SOAP intermediary is parsing the incoming SOAP messages, checking the data in each message, and then serializing the messages to put them back into the network. DOM is one of the popular interfaces to navigate an XML tree. Existing DOM implementations are not efficient for SOAP intermediary processing. Existing DOM implementations parse XML data to create tree data and traverse the tree data for serialization. Typically, a SOAP intermediary rarely modifies the tree data. In such situations, creating the tree data and serializing it back into XML data is computationally expensive. We propose a DOM implementation based on a hybrid data representation that uses both literal XML and DOM objects. In our implementation, a SOAP intermediary stores the original literal XML representation and reuses it to avoid traversing all of the tree data during serialization. We prototyped the DOM implementation and evaluated its performance.","PeriodicalId":275591,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE International Conference on Web Services","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123060036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Service differentiation is a practical approach for service provider to deliver ldquogoodrdquo service quality to different customers or customer segments under limited computing resources. In this paper, we address the problem of differentiating business process services by effectively scheduling tasks inside business processes, where dynamic value of service request, process instance execution status and workload of service components are all taken into consideration. Corresponding framework architecture and a scheduling algorithm are purposed for this purpose.
{"title":"Service Differentiation for Business Process by Value Based Service Scheduling","authors":"Chen Wang, Qiming Tian, Xiaoyan Chen, Chun Ying","doi":"10.1109/ICWS.2008.137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICWS.2008.137","url":null,"abstract":"Service differentiation is a practical approach for service provider to deliver ldquogoodrdquo service quality to different customers or customer segments under limited computing resources. In this paper, we address the problem of differentiating business process services by effectively scheduling tasks inside business processes, where dynamic value of service request, process instance execution status and workload of service components are all taken into consideration. Corresponding framework architecture and a scheduling algorithm are purposed for this purpose.","PeriodicalId":275591,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE International Conference on Web Services","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123723145","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}