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Towards a framework for the development of adaptable service-based applications

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Service-oriented computing is a promising computing paradigm which facilitates the composition of loosely coupled and adaptable applications. Unfortunately, this new paradigm does not lend itself easily to traditional software engineering methods and principles due to the decentralised nature of software services. The goal of this paper is to identify a set of engineering activities that can be used to develop adaptable service-based applications. Rather than focusing on the entire service-based application development life-cycle, this paper will focus on adaptation-specific processes and activities and map them to an existing high-level service-based application development life-cycle. Existing software engineering literature as well as research results from service engineering research is reviewed for relevant activities. The result is an adaptation framework that can guide software engineers in developing adaptable service-based applications.

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Acknowledgments

The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007–2013 under grant agreement 215483 (S-Cube) and has been partially supported by Lero—the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, Science Foundation Ireland Grants No. 03/CE2/I303.1 & 10/CE/I1855.

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    Stephen Lane & Ita Richardson

  2. Department of Computer Science, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Qing Gu & Patricia Lago

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Lane, S., Gu, Q., Lago, P. et al. Towards a framework for the development of adaptable service-based applications. SOCA 8, 239–257 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11761-013-0136-4

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