Engineering Reliable Service Oriented Architecture: Managing Complexity and Service Level AgreementsRelease Date: March, 2011. Copyright © 2011. 420 pages.
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DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-493-6, ISBN13: 9781609604936, ISBN10: 1609604938, EISBN13: 9781609604943 | | TopDescriptionDynamic, trustworthy and reliable service delivery in Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) is one of the main preconditions for successful and sustainable business operations. Service and business process reliability is, therefore, of paramount importance and cannot be compromised. Engineering Reliable Service Oriented Architecture: Managing Complexity and Service Level Agreements presents a guide to engineering reliable SOA systems and enhances current understanding of service reliability. It is an essential reference for both practitioners and researchers wishing to explore state-of-the art results from the field of reliable SOA application engineering. TopTable of Contents and List of Contributors|
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| Design of Quality Aspects in Service Oriented Architecture through Service Level Agreements: The Streaming Case Study
(pages 1-21)
Marco Massarelli (Universitá degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy), Claudia Raibulet (Universitá degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy), Daniele Cammareri (Universitá degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy), Nicolò Perino (University of Lugano, Switzerland)
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| Flexible and dynamic SLAs management in Service Oriented Architectures
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Giuseppe Di Modica (Università di Catania, Italy), Orazio Tomarchio (Università di Catania, Italy)
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| Quality of Service Monitoring, Diagnosis, and Adaptation for Service Level Management
(pages 41-58)
Guijun Wang (Boeing Research & Technology, USA), Changzhou Wang (Boeing Research & Technology, USA), Haiqin Wang (Boeing Research & Technology, USA), Rodolfo A. Santiago (Boeing Research & Technology, USA), Jingwen Jin (Boeing Research & Technology, USA), David Shaw (Boeing Research & Technology, USA)
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| Supporting Service Level Agreement with Service Discovery
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| Configuration of Non-Functional Properties in Embedded Operating Systems: The CiAO Approach
(pages 84-103)
Wanja Hofer (Friedrich–Alexander University Erlangen–Nuremberg, Germany), Julio Sincero (Friedrich–Alexander University Erlangen–Nuremberg, Germany), Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat (Friedrich–Alexander University Erlangen–Nuremberg, Germany), Daniel Lohmann (Friedrich–Alexander University Erlangen–Nuremberg, Germany)
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| Adding Semantics to QoS Requirements
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| Selective Querying for Adapting Hierarchical Web Service Compositions
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| Aggregating Functional and Non-Functional Properties to Identify Service Compositions
(pages 145-174)
Eduardo Blanco (Universidad Simón Bolívar, Venezuela), Yudith Cardinale (Universidad Simón Bolívar, Venezuela), María-Esther Vidal (Universidad Simón Bolívar, Venezuela)
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| Web Services Composition Problem: Model and Complexity
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| Specification of Non-functional Requirements and Their Trade-offs in Service Contracts in the NGOSS Framework
(pages 199-211)
Xiaoqing Liu (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA), Nektarios Georgalas (British Telecom GCTO, UK)
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| Applying Concept Reuse for Adaptive Service Composition
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Onyeka Ezenwoye (South Dakota State University, USA), S. Masoud Sadjadi (Florida International University, USA)
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| Prediction of Non-Functional Properties of Service-Based Systems: A Software Reliability Model
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| Model-based Methodology and Framework for Assessing Service and Business Process Availability
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| Complexity Analysis at Design Stages of Service Oriented Architectures as a Measure of Reliability Risks
(pages 292-314)
Muhammad Sheikh Sadi (Curtin University of Technology, Australia), D. G. Myers (Curtin University of Technology, Australia), Cesar Ortega Sanchez (Curtin University of Technology, Australia)
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| Design and Deployment of Service Oriented Applications with Non-Functional Requirements
(pages 315-339)
László Gönczy (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary), Dániel Varró (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)
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| Dependability Assessment of Service-Oriented Architectures Using Fault Injection
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TopTopics Covered- Adding semantics to QoS requirements
- Aggregating functional and non-functional properties to identify service compositions
- Adapting hierarchical Web service compositions
- Applying concept reuse for adaptive service composition
- Methodology and framework for assessing service and business process availability
- Non-functional properties in embedded operating systems
- Quality aspects in service oriented architecture through service level agreements
- Quality of service monitoring, diagnosis, and adaptation
- Specification of non-functional requirements
- Supporting service level agreement with service discovery
TopPrefaceDynamic, trustworthy, and reliable service delivery in Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) is at present one of the main preconditions for successful and sustainable business operations. Service and business process reliability is, therefore, of paramount importance and cannot be compromised. Even today, services are simply expected to be delivered reliably and on demand, and this requirement will be even more important in the near future. Unreliable and incorrect services can corrupt business processes causing an impact ranging from lost opportunity or money to loss of lives. Our current understanding of service reliability properties is rather sketchy, limited, and mostly empirical. Regardless of this fact, services are already widely used as the new paradigm to build software architectures and enable complex business processes.
Several methodologies can be used to engineer reliable SOA systems: quantitative, qualitative, and analytical. Quantitative engineering is based on real-time measurement and monitoring. Whereas it has proven itself in several areas (e.g., hardware benchmarks and testing), it is difficult to apply to SOA because of the lack of adequate metrics and instrumentation. Qualitative engineering is performed informally (e.g., through questionnaires and interviews) and using best-practice frameworks (e.g., ITIL). Qualitative results are easy to misinterpret, difficult to compare, and depend heavily on the party that is performing the analysis. Analytical methods are used to model services and their behavior and calculate or simulate their reliability. Up to now, however, classical analytical methods have been applied to engineer service availability with mixed success and relatively low industry penetration due to scalability, complexity and evolution problems.
With the recent advance of cloud computing and software as a service paradigms, importance of the ability to model and assess service reliability has only increased. For example, with the technical (hardware and software) infrastructure growing much more complex in recent years, many SaaS providers have experienced an increasing number of outages, some of them also extremely long lasting. Consequently, fears were raised that inability to provide strictly defined service level agreement in terms of the maximum number of downtime hours per year may lead to rejection of the entire SaaS paradigm by the users. Many CTOs even speculated that they consider returning to locally hosted solutions, where SaaS products may be used as a backup application only. The increased usage of virtualization and server consolidation makes the problem even more acute, because virtual machine and/or application migration influence reliability and service level agreements of affected services, applications and processes.
Similar problems are evident in large scale SOA infrastructures (such as telecommunications sector or power grid communication). Recent blackouts and frequent failures of cellular communication services are just some of the numerous examples. Even worse, repair teams often depend on the same infrastructure, thus prolonging the failures.
These frequent problems vividly illustrate our inability to engineer complex and reliable SOA systems satisfactorily. They further indicate that reliable SOA systems must consider not only hardware and software properties, but also the underlying (network) infrastructure, configuration, and the people maintaining and using it.
This book attempts to address these issues and present a guide to the engineering of reliable SOA systems. It comprises three sections, treating service level agreements as the basic building block of reliable SOA systems, service composition as the mean of conquering complexity of SOA infrastructures with respect to reliability properties and finally several methods for design, and implementation of fault-tolerant and reliable SOA applications.
Proper specification of service level agreement (SLA) is the main pre-condition for successful implementation of non-functional properties, such as reliability. In Chapter 1, Massarelli et al. discuss the value of Service Level Agreements (SLA) used as contracts, and the authors propose an adaptive method for SLA runtime management that can monitor and perform changes during service execution phase. Di Modica and Tomarchio report in Chapter 2 that, although Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are the most common mechanism used to establish agreements on the quality of service, they have not been taken up by business stakeholders yet due to the low flexibility and usability, together with the lack of interoperability. The authors then propose an SLA management framework addressing these issues. In Chapter 3, Wang et al. present a service level management framework offering two benefits: incorporating monitoring and diagnosis services as an integral part of the QoS management. Zisman argues in Chapter 4 that creation, maintenance, and evolution of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) represent the main challenges in order to establish an effective evaluation and enforcement of quality of services and their providers. The author then presents an approach for SLA creation that is based on an iterative service discovery process. In Chapter 5, Hofer et al. present the work on configurability of non-functional properties in embedded systems. The authors propose a framework for making non-functional properties such as reliability, performance, or memory usage indirectly configurable and maintainable. Finally, Giallonardo and Zimeo explore in Chapter 6 the role that ontologies have on specifying service requirements, discovery and composition.
Service composition is the most straightforward method of managing complexity in SOA. However, service composition, with respect to non-functional properties, presents a new set of problems and challenges. In Chapter 7, Harney and Doshi explore Web Service composition in volatile environments, where parameters and properties of component services may change during execution. The authors propose a hierarchical Web Service composition mechanism as a solution. Blanco, Cardinale, and Vidal discuss in Chapter 8 the problem of identifying a service composition that best meets functional and non-functional user requirements. The authors propose a hybrid cost-based approach that receives and considers at the same time, a functional user request expressed by a pair of input and output attribute sets, and a non-functional condition represented by a set of QoS parameter permissible values. Cheikh proposes in Chapter 9 a service composition model considering available services that have access control constraints. As the scalability of service composition frameworks is one of the most limiting factors, the author investigates complexity in detail. In Chapter 10, Liu and Georgalas develop a novel approach for specifying non-functional properties of telecom operation support systems applications in the NGOSS framework. In Chapter 11, Ezenwoye and Sadjadi propose a language-based approach for transparently adapting BPEL processes in order to improve reliability. This approach addresses reliability at the business process layer using a code generator, which weaves fault-tolerant code to the original code and an external proxy.
In the world where on-demand and trustworthy service delivery is one of the main preconditions for successful business, service and business process availability is of the paramount importance and cannot be compromised. For that reason service availability is coming into central focus of the IT operations and management research and practice. Taweel investigates in Chapter 12 predictability of non-functional properties such as capability, reliability, compatibility, performance, et cetera in complex service compositions. In Chapter 13, Milanovic and Milic present a framework for modeling business process and service availability. The approach takes into account services, the underlying ICT-infrastructure, and people. Sadi, Myers, and Sanchez investigate in Chapter 14 the failure analysis of SOA systems. They propose the metric for scanning a system model and flagging those components that are more likely to fail. In Chapter 15, Gönczy and Varró propose a model-driven approach to efficiently design and deploy standards-compliant service configurations with non-functional parameters, with special focus on reliable messaging. Looker and Munro argue in Chapter 16 that dependability assessment is an important aspect of any software system which shows the degree of trust and quality of service that is delivered by a system. They discuss service dependability and present different techniques that may be used in dependability assessment of SOA systems.
The book enhances our current understanding of service reliability and at the same time discovers new application possibilities, concepts, and challenges. Therefore, it can be read by both practitioners and researchers wishing to explore state-of-the art results from the field of reliable SOA application engineering. TopAuthor(s)/Editor(s) BiographyNikola Milanovic Nikola Milanovic is co-founder and CEO of Model Labs. The Berlin-based company offers innovative model-based software product family for system integration and service availability assessment. Previously, he was senior researcher at Berlin University of Technology (TU Berlin) and Hasso-Plattner Institute (HPI) in Potsdam. Milanovic received his PhD in computer science from the Humboldt University in Berlin. TopReviews and Testimonials"The world is moving towards the open system science, where, in addition to classical synthesis and analysis, the dimension of management has to be considered. And so it is with services where management plays a critical role. Managing resources, optimizing performance and dependability, as well as minimizing cost, are and will be ongoing challenges for SOA. This is due to open-ended systems, multiple degrees of freedom, growing complexity, frequent configurations and reconfigurations, upgrades, updates, cyber attacks, and new requirements, especially regarding the real time. This volume addresses many of these problems and concerns by offering an entire spectrum of solutions ranging from managing via Service Level Agreements and Service Level Management contracts on the expectations side to real implementations and fault injection for estimating resilience from the engineering perspective. We also can gain an insight into both analysis and synthesis for the all important problem of service composition. Service compositions, if successful, will dramatically change the spectrum of service offering, but to get to this point we need to solve a number of problems, such as: feasibility of compositions, Quality of Service of composed services, overhead of a composition process, automation of composition, and cost of composed service. Many of them are addressed in this volume. Finally, the question of service availability and fault tolerance gains significance in the service environment where proliferation of computer applications to all walks of life and growing expectations by users with regard to reliance will force service providers to search for dependable, fault-tolerant SOAs. Several contributions in this volume offer interesting approaches to these challenges."
- Miroslaw Malek, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany TopEditorial Board- Daniel Amyot, University of Ottawa, Canada
- Samik Basu, Iowa State University, USA
- Marko Boškovic, University of Oldenburg, Germany
- Lawrence Chung, University of Texas-Dallas, USA
- Jörg Dörr, Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering, Germany
- Kazi Farooqui, AT&T Labs, USA
- Dragan Gaševic, Athabasca University, Canada
- Aniruddha S. Gokhale, Vanderbilt University, USA
- Jeff Gray, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
- Fuyuki Ishikawa, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
- Jan Jürjens, The Open University, UK
- Dimitris Karagiannis, University of Vienna, Austria
- Nikola Milanovic, Model Labs, Germany
- Katsuya Oba, OGIS International, Inc., USA
- Michael Papazoglou, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
- Claudia Raibulet, University of Milan - Bicocca, Italy
- Michiaki Tatsubori, IBM Research - Tokyo Research Laboratory, Japan
- Marcel Tilly, European Microsoft Innovation Center, Germany
- Changzhou Wang, Boeing Phantom Works, USA
- Eric Yu, University of Toronto, Canada
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