Marcel Hiel
| Date of PhD defense: | 7 September 2010 |
| Title of thesis: | An Adaptive Service Oriented Architecture |
| ISBN: | 978 90 5668 258 3 |
| Promotor: | Prof.dr. W.J.A.M. van den Heuvel |
| Co-promotor: | Dr. H. Weigand |
Abstract:
Organizations desire to be able to easily cooperate with other companies and still be flexible. The IT infrastructure used by these companies should facilitate these wishes. Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Autonomic Computing (AC) were introduced in order to realize such an infrastructure, however both have their shortcomings and do not fulfil these wishes. This dissertation addresses these shortcomings and presents an approach for incorporating (self-) adaptive behavior in (Web) services. A conceptual foundation of adaptation is provided and SOA is extended to incorporate adaptive behavior, called Adaptive Service Oriented Architecture (ASOA). To demonstrate our conceptual framework, we implement it to address a crucial aspect of distributed systems, namely interoperability. In particular, we study the situation of a service orchestrator adapting itself to evolving service providers.
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