Web Service Trust: Towards A Dynamic Assessment Framework

Trust in software services is a key prerequisite for the success and wide adoption of services-oriented computing (SOC) in an open Internet world. However, trust is poorly assessed by existing methods and technologies, especially in dynamically composed and deployed SOC systems. In this paper, we discuss current methods for assessing trust in service-oriented computing and identify gaps of current platforms, in particular with regards to runtime trust assessment. To address these gaps, we propose a model of runtime trust assessment of software services and introduce a framework for realizing the model. A key characteristic of our approach is the support that it offers for customizable assessment of trust based on evidence collected during the operation of software services and its ability to combine this evidence with subjective assessments coming from service clients

A service-oriented approach for the i* framework

Nuevas áreas de aplicación como comercio electrónico, aplicaciones para provisión de servicios y computación P2P (peer-to-peer) requieren de sistemas de software complejos que puedan soportar procesos de negocio en línea . Actualmente, los ingenieros de software han descubierto la efectividad de usar técnicas de modelado organizacional para guiar el proceso de producción de este tipo de sistemas complejos. En este contexto, el framework i* es una de las técnicas de modelado organizacional mejor fundamentadas hoy en día. i* se enfoca en dos aspectos principales: a) la representación de las relaciones sociales e intencionales que existen entre la red de actores de un negocio. b) la representación del comportamiento interno requerido para satisfacer las dependencias entre actores. El framework i* permite describir una organización como una red de actores que tienen libertad de acción, pero que dependen de otros actores para lograr sus metas y objetivos. Sin embargo, a pesar de las bien conocidas ventajas de i*, existen ciertos problemas que necesitan ser resueltos para asegurar su efectividad en ambientes reales de desarrollo. En este sentido, el framework necesita ser evaluado en la práctica con el objetivo de identificar sus fortalezas y debilidades en casos de estudio reales. Uno de los objetivos de esta tesis fue realizar una evaluación empírica que nos permitiera identificar y analizar los problemas prácticos de i*. Se presentan las lecciones aprendidas en términos de fortalezas y de puntos débiles que necesitan ser resueltos. Además, la tesis presenta soluciones a los puntos débiles que fueron detectados en la evaluación empírica. Consideramos que la orientación a servicios es un paradigma muy prometedor para enfrentar la complejidad del modelado de sistemas de tecnologías de información actuales. En este sentido, el principal objetivo de esta tesis fue definir una arquitectura orientada a servicios que nos permitiera resolver los problemas de complejidad de i*.Estrada Esquivel, H. (2008). A service-oriented approach for the i* framework [Tesis doctoral no publicada]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/3305Palanci

An engineering framework for Service-Oriented Intelligent Manufacturing Systems

Nowadays fully integrated enterprises are being replaced by business networks in which each participant provides others with specialized services. As a result, the Service Oriented Manufacturing Systems emerges. These systems are complex and hard to engineer. The main source of complexity is the number of different technologies, standards, functions, protocols, and execution environments that must be integrated in order to realize them. This paper proposes a framework and associated engineering approach for assisting the system developers of Service Oriented Manufacturing Systems. The approach combines multi-agent system with Service Oriented Architectures for the development of intelligentautomation control and execution of manufacturing systems.Giret Boggino, AS.; Garcia Marques, ME.; Botti Navarro, VJ. (2016). An engineering framework for Service-Oriented Intelligent Manufacturing Systems. Computers in Industry. 81:116-127. doi:10.1016/j.compind.2016.02.002S1161278

Designing community care systems with AUML

This paper describes an approach to developing an appropriate agent environment appropriate for use in community care applications. Key to its success is that software designers collaborate with environment builders to provide the levels of cooperation and support required within an integrated agent–oriented community system. Agent-oriented Unified Modeling Language (AUML) is a practical approach to the analysis, design, implementation and management of such an agent-based system, whilst providing the power and expressiveness necessary to support the specification, design and organization of a health care service. The background of an agent-based community care application to support the elderly is described. Our approach to building agent–oriented software development solutions emphasizes the importance of AUML as a fundamental initial step in producing more general agent–based architectures. This approach aims to present an effective methodology for an agent software development process using a service oriented approach, by addressing the agent decomposition, abstraction, and organization characteristics, whilst reducing its complexity by exploiting AUML’s productivity potential. </p

Experiences modelling and using object-oriented telecommunication service frameworks in SDL

This paper describes experiences in using SDL and its associated tools to create telecommunication services by producing and specialising object-oriented frameworks. The chosen approach recognises the need for the rapid creation of validated telecommunication services. It introduces two stages to service creation. Firstly a software expert produces a service framework, and secondly a telecommunications ‘business consultant' specialises the framework by means of graphical tools to rapidly produce services. Here the focus is given to the underlying technology required. In particular, the advantages and disadvantages of SDL and tools for this purpose are highlighted

Automating property-based testing of evolving web services

Web services are the most widely used service technology that drives the Service-Oriented Computing~(SOC) paradigm. As a result, effective testing of web services is getting increasingly important. In this paper, we present a framework and toolset for testing web services and for evolving test code in sync with the evolution of web services. Our approach to testing web services is based on the Erlang programming language and QuviQ QuickCheck, a property-based testing tool written in Erlang, and our support for test code evolution is added to Wrangler, the Erlang refactoring tool. The key components of our system include the automatic generation of initial test code, the inference of web service interface changes between versions, the provision of a number of domain specific refactorings and the automatic generation of refactoring scripts for evolving the test code. Our framework provides users with a powerful and expressive web service testing framework, while minimising users' effort in creating, maintaining and evolving the test model. The framework presented in this paper can be used by both web service providers and consumers, and can be used to test web services written in whatever language; the approach advocated here could also be adopted in other property-based testing frameworks and refactoring tools

Model-driven performance evaluation for service engineering

Service engineering and service-oriented architecture as an integration and platform technology is a recent approach to software systems integration. Software quality aspects such as performance are of central importance for the integration of heterogeneous, distributed service-based systems. Empirical performance evaluation is a process of measuring and calculating performance metrics of the implemented software. We present an approach for the empirical, model-based performance evaluation of services and service compositions in the context of model-driven service engineering. Temporal databases theory is utilised for the empirical performance evaluation of model-driven developed service systems