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WS-contract establishment with QoS: An approach based on feature modeling
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International Journal Of Cooperative Information Systems. World Scientific Publ Co Pte Ltd, v. 17, n. 3, n. 373, n. 407, 2008.
0218-8430
WOS:000258778400007
10.1142/S0218843008001889
Autor
Fantinato, M
De Toledo, MBF
Gimenes, IMD
Institución
Resumen
Electronic contracts describe inter-organizational business processes in terms of supply and consumption of electronic services (commonly Web services). The establishment of e-contracts in a particular business domain usually involves a set of well-defined common and variable properties. These properties are not fully exploited by the existing e-contract establishment approaches. Feature modeling is a software engineering technique that has been widely used for capturing and managing commonalities and variabilities of product families in the context of software product line. This paper presents a feature-based approach to support Web services e-contract (WS-contract) establishment. The approach aims at improving the information structure and reuse of WS-contracts, including the QoS attributes. Features are used to represent possible WS-contract elements in order to drive WS-contract template instantiation, thus acting as a configuration space manager. A toolkit named FeatureContract was developed to automatically support the proposed approach. A case study was carried out within the telecom context to show the approach feasibility. 17 3 373 407