On Composite Web Services Provisioning in an Environment of Fixed and Mobile Computing Resources

Zakaria Maamar
Quan Z. Sheng
Boualem Benatallah

Document Type

Article

Source of Publication

Information Technology & Management

Publication Date

7-1-2004

Abstract

We present a framework for Web services provisioning in a hybrid environment of fixed and mobile computing resources. Several obstacles still hinder the seamless provisioning of Web services in mobile environments. Examples of such obstacles are: throughput and connectivity of wireless networks, limited computing resources of mobile devices, and risks of communication channel disconnections. In the proposed framework, software agents represent users, providers of services, and providers of resources. The business logic of composite services is expressed as a process model using statecharts formalism. Among other things, the use of agents provides an infrastructure that has the ability to handle disconnections during service preparation for execution. The framework also integrates a service execution planning approach to optimally select computing resources (fixed or mobile) on top of which services will be executed.

ISSN

1385-951X

Publisher

Kluwer Academic Publishers

Volume

5

First Page

251

Last Page

270

Disciplines

Computer Sciences

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no

Open Access

no

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