Integration Framework for Service-based Applications (IA-3)

by Maike Uhlig — last modified Apr 24, 2012 09:46

Motivation and Results

The main goal of this activity was the definition and the validation of a coherent and holistic Integrated Research Framework to foster the alignment of the research activities within S-Cube. Among others, the results include:

The integration framework fostered the conceptual integration of principles, techniques, methods and mechanisms developed and extended in the various S-Cube research activities. Those results obviously have been widely published.
The integration framework facilitated the definition of 24 concrete research challenges for the key building blocks of the framework and researched within S-Cube. In addition, patterns which characterize different types of users involved in the design and execution of software services and services-based systems have been identified and defined.
By employing high level scenarios S-Cube members validated the end-to-end integration of S-Cube research results which in turn led to a continuous revision and improvement of the integration framework itself.
The Integrated Research Framework and its building blocks were empirically validated such as demonstrators, experiments, and case studies. Overall, approximately 50 different validations have been executed and reported.
The research framework and the use cases significantly facilitated the successful alignment of the short- and long-term research agendas of S-Cube members.