Toward behavioral web services using policies

Document Type

Article

Source of Publication

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans

Publication Date

11-26-2008

Abstract

Making Web services context-aware is a challenge. This is like making Web service expose appropriate behaviors in response to changes detected in the environment. Context awareness requires a review and extension of the current execution model of Web services. This paper discusses the seamless combination of context and policy to manage behaviors that Web services expose during composition and in response to changes in the environment. For this purpose, a four-layer approach is devised. These layers are denoted by policy, user, Web service, and resource. In this approach, behavior management and binding are subject to executing policies of types permission, obligation, restriction, and dispensation. A prototype that illustrates how context and policy are woven into Web services composition scenarios is presented as well. © 2008 IEEE.

ISSN

1083-4427

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Volume

38

Issue

6

First Page

1312

Last Page

1324

Disciplines

Computer Sciences

Keywords

Behavior, Composition, Policy, Web service

Scopus ID

56449093486

Indexed in Scopus

yes

Open Access

no

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