Distributed behavioural adaptation for the automatic composition of semantic services

Author(s): Melliti, T.; Poizat, P.; Ben Mokhtar, S.

Source: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering. 11th International Conference, FASE 2008. Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2008 Pages: 146-62  Published: 2008  

Conference Information: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering. 11th International Conference, FASE 2008. Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2008
Budapest, Hungary, 29 March-6 April 2008

Abstract: Services are developed separately and without knowledge of all possible use contexts. They often mismatch or do not correspond exactly to the end-user needs, making direct composition without mediation impossible. In such a case, software adaptation can support composition by producing semi-automatically new software pieces called adaptors. Adaptation proposals have addressed the signature and behavioural service interface levels. Yet, taking also into account the semantic level is mandatory to enable the fully-automatic retrieval of adaptors from service interfaces. We propose a new adaptation technique that, compared to related work, supports both behavioural and semantic service interface levels, works system-wide, and generates automatically distributed adaptors.