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Automated maintenance of service compositions with SLA violation detection and dynamic binding

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Web service compositions need to adapt to changes in their constituent web services, in order to maintain functionality and performance. Therefore, service compositions must be able to detect web service failure and performance degradation resulting in the violation of service-level agreements. Automated diagnosis and repair are equally important. However, existing standards and languages for service compositions, such as BPEL, lack constructs for web service monitoring and runtime adaptability, which are pre-requisites for diagnosis and repair. We present a solution for transparent runtime monitoring, as well as automated performance degradation detection, diagnosis, and repair for service compositions expressed as BPEL processes. Our solution uses lightweight monitoring techniques, supports customizable diagnosis and repair strategies, and is compatible with any standards-compliant BPEL engine.

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Mosincat, A., Binder, W. Automated maintenance of service compositions with SLA violation detection and dynamic binding. Int J Softw Tools Technol Transfer 13, 167–179 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10009-010-0181-7

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