A Method to Support Adaptability in Development of Service-based Applications

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1 Department of Computer Engineering and Science, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

2 Cyberspace Research Institute, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Nowadays, due to the dynamic environment of service-based applications, the ability to adapt to environmental and contextual changes has become a crucial quality of such applications. However, providing these applications with adaptability capability at runtime so as to supports service-oriented development characteristics and to be able to run on a service integration infrastructure is a complex and difficult task. This paper presents a method to support realizing adaptability requirements in the development and evolution of service-based applications. To this end, the business process meta-model has been extended to monitoring and adaptation concerns. In addition, a set of mechanisms to transform these requirements to monitoring checkpoints and adaptation actions are presented in such a way that they can be deployed on enterprise service bus. The proposed method is evaluated on the basis of the several scenarios in a case study based on quantitative and qualitative experiments. The results of the evaluation demonstrate that the proposed method can effectively provide the possibility of developing adaptive behaviors.

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TABRIZ JOURNAL OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
Volume 50, Issue 3 - Serial Number 93
November 2020
Pages 1281-1291

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