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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

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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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* Agile systems development * Bio-informatics * Cognitive modeling * Component engineering * Conceptual modeling * Data quality * Data warehousing and data mining * Database for advanced applications * Database management and administration * Database models and query languages * Database security and integrity * Design science * Domain-driven development * E-business and m-commerce models and architectures * Empirical software engineering * Enterprise systems and supply chain integration * Extreme modeling and extreme programming * Geographical information systems * Human-computer interaction * Heterogeneous and distributed database * Information and knowledge modeling * Intelligent agents and agent-based applications * Knowledge engineering and management * Method engineering and metamodeling * Object oriented methods and methodologies * Requirements engineering * Service-oriented architecture/service-oriented computing * Semantic Web and ontology * Software engineering * System analysis and design * Unified modeling language and unified process * Virtual team and Web 2.0 * Web database and Web-based information systems * Web design methods and methodologies

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