Managing Changes to Service Oriented Enterprises

In this thesis, we present a framework for managing changes in service oriented enterprises (SOEs). A service oriented enterprise outsources and composes its functionality from third-party Web service providers. We focus on changes initiated or triggered by these member Web services. We present a taxonomy of changes that occur in service oriented enterprises. We use a combination of several types of Petri nets to model the triggering changes and ensuing reactive changes. The techniques presented in our thesis are implemented in WebBIS, a prototype for composing and managing e-business Web services. Finally, we conduct an extensive simulation study to prove the feasibility of the proposed techniques.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science

Level thesis:degree_level

masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Computer Science

Department dc:contributor.department

Computer Science

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Tech

Year dc:date.issued

2005

Author dc:creator

• Akram, Mohammad Salman

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Bouguettaya, Athman

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Gracanin, Denis
• Eltoweissy, Mohamed Y.

• Service Oriented Enterprise
• Change Management
• Petri Nets
• Web Services
• Semantic Web

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Dc Identifier Other

etd-06062005-150206

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/33453