Integration Framework: Baseline and Definition (WP-IA-3.1)

by Maike Uhlig — last modified Sep 16, 2009 10:55

Objectives

The primary objective of this workpackage is to define a coherent, holistic framework for service engineering and adaptation.

This holistic framework will be defined according to the following detailed objectives:

The framework will integrate principles, techniques and methodologies for the engineering and adaptation of service based applications, provided by WP-JRA-1.1 and WP-JRA-1.2. The framework will also encompass methods of the horizontal functional layers of service based applications, namely service infrastructures (WP-JRA-2.1), service composition and coordination (WP-JRA-2.2), and business process management (WP-JRA-2.3).
The workpackage will also guarantee the inclusion of those aspects in the framework that are cross-cutting to the research activities. These aspects include:
- The framework should take into account principles, technologies, and methods for the engineering and adaptation of hybrid systems.
- An integrated view to service engineering, monitoring and adaptation, which requires the harmonization and the coherent interplay of the engineering and adaptation frameworks.
- End-to-end quality and SLA-conformance principles, which require a holistic view that integrates engineering and adaptation, as well as the mechanisms provided by the different functional SBA layers.
The framework that will be developed in this workpackage will cater for the needs of various types of users. Indeed, users may act as service composers, or as service managers to monitor and adapt services, or as service consumers. These different user types will exploit different categories of knowledge on the technical aspects of service based applications and will adopt different engineering and adaptation methodologies and processes.
This workpackage will play a pivotal role in ensuring overall consistency and harmonization of all the research workpackages by specifying interfaces among the different components in the conceptual architecture of the network. These interfaces define how the vertical engineering layer (WP-JRA-1.1) will be able to interact with the adaptation layer (WP-JRA-1.2), and how these two layers will be able to exploit the capabilities offered by the functional SBA layers (WP-JRA-2.1 to WP-JRA-2.3) and to inject design specifications and adaptability requests into them.