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The contents of the latest issue of:
Journal of Database Management (JDM)
Official Publication of the Information Resources Management
Association
Volume 22, Issue 2, April-June 2011
Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically
ISSN: 1063-8016 EISSN: 1533-8010
Published by IGI Publishing, Hershey-New York, USA
www.igi-global.com/jdm
Editor-in-Chief: Keng Siau, University of Nebraska - Lincoln,
USA
Special Issue: Service-Oriented Architecture and Computing
GUEST EDITORIAL PREFACE
Sandeep Purao, Penn State University, USA
Vijay Khatri, Indiana University, USA
Brian Cameron, Penn State University, USA
To read the preface, click on the link below, and then click
"Preface."
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PAPER ONE
Multi-Level Modeling of Web Service Compositions with
Transactional Properties
K. Vidyasankar, Memorial University, Canada
Gottfried Vossen, University of Muenster, Germany
Web services have become popular as a vehicle for the design,
integration,
composition, reuse, and deployment of distributed and
heterogeneous software.
However, although industry standards for the description,
composition,
and orchestration of Web services have been under development,
their conceptual
underpinnings are not fully understood. Conceptual models for
service specification
are rare, as are investigations based on them. This paper
presents and
studies a multi-level service composition model that perceives
service
specification as going through several levels of abstraction. It
starts
from transactional operations at the lowest level and abstracts
into activities
at higher levels that are close to the service provider or end
user. The
authors treat service composition from a specification and
execution point
of view, where the former is about composition logic and the
latter about
transactional guarantees. Consequently, the model allows for the
specification
of a number of transactional properties, such as atomicity and
guaranteed
termination, at all levels. Different ways of achieving the
composition
properties and implications of the model are presented. The
authors also
discuss how the model subsumes practical proposals like the
OASIS Business
Transaction Protocol, Sun’s WS-TXM, and execution aspects of the
BPEL4WS
standard.
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PAPER TWO
Service Composition and Interaction in a SOC Middleware
Supporting Separation
of Concerns with Flows and Views
Dickson K. W. Chiu, Dickson Computer Systems, Hong Kong
Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Patrick C. K. Hung, University of Ontario, Canada
Zhe Shan, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
S. C. Cheung, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,
Hong Kong
Yu Yang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Matthias Farwick, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) has recently gained attention
both within
industry and academia; however, its characteristics cannot be
easily solved
using existing distributed computing technologies. Composition
and interaction
issues have been the central concerns, because SOC applications
are composed
of heterogeneous and distributed processes. To tackle the
complexity of
inter-organizational service integration, the authors propose a
methodology
to decompose complex process requirements into different types
of flows,
such as control, data, exception, and security. The subset of
each type
of flow necessary for the interactions with each partner can be
determined
in each service. These subsets collectively constitute a process
view,
based on which interactions can be systematically designed and
managed
for system integration through service composition. The authors
illustrate
how the proposed SOC middleware, named FlowEngine, implements
and manages
these flows with contemporary Web services technologies. An
experimental
case study in an e-governmental environment further demonstrates
how the
methodology can facilitate the design of complex
inter-organizational processes.
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PAPER THREE
Ensuring Customised Transactional Reliability of Composite
Services
Sami Bhiri, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Walid Gaaloul, Telecom & Management SudParis, France
Claude Godart, LORIA-INRIA, France
Olivier Perrin, LORIA-INRIA, France
Maciej Zaremba, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Wassim Derguech, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Web services are defined independently of any execution context.
Due to
their inherent autonomy and heterogeneity, it is difficult to
examine the
behaviour of composite services, especially in case of failures.
This paper
is interested in ensuring composite services reliability.
Reliable composition
is defined as a composition where all instance executions are
correct from
a transactional and business point of view. In this paper, the
authors
propose a transactional approach for ensuring reliable Web
service compositions.
The approach integrates the expressivity power of workflow
models and the
reliability of Advanced Transactional Models (ATM). This method
offers
flexibility for designers to specify their requirements in terms
of control
structure, using workflow patterns, and execution correctness.
Contrary
to ATM, the authors start from the designers’ specifications to
define
the appropriate transactional mechanisms that ensure correct
executions
according to their requirements.
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PAPER FOUR
Leveraging Early Aspects in End-to-End Model Driven Development
for Non-Functional
Properties in Service Oriented Architecture
Hiroshi Wada, National ICT Australia, Australia
Junichi Suzuki, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA
Katsuya Oba, OGIS International, Inc., USA
In Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), each application is
designed with
a set of reusable services and a business process. To retain the
reusability
of services, non-functional properties of applications must be
separated
from their functional properties. This paper investigates a
model-driven
development framework that separates non-functional properties
from functional
properties and manages them. This framework proposes two
components: (1)
a programming language, called BALLAD, for a new per-process
strategy to
specify non-functional properties for business processes, and
(2) a graphical
modeling method, called FM-SNFPs, to define a series of
constraints among
non-functional properties. BALLAD leverages aspects in aspect
oriented
programming/modeling. Each aspect is used to specify a set of
non-functional
properties that crosscut multiple services in a business
process. FM-SNFPs
leverage the notion of feature modeling to define constraints
among non-functional
properties like dependency and mutual exclusion constraints.
BALLAD and
FM-SNFPs free application developers from manually specifying,
maintaining
and validating non-functional properties and constraints for
services one
by one, reducing the burdens/costs in development and
maintenance of service-oriented
applications. This paper describes the design details of BALLAD
and FM-SNFPs,
and demonstrates how they are used in developing
service-oriented applications.
BALLAD significantly reduces the costs to implement and maintain
non-functional
properties in service-oriented applications.
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