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CAFISE: An approach to enabling adaptive configuration of service grid applications

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Aiming at building up more powerful, open-standard-based and generic infrastructures for application integration, service grids address the challenges in large-scale coordinated sharing and on-demand composition of network-based application services. The related endeavors have opened up new ways of application development, deployment and integration. In connection with the new level of scale, openness and dynamism brought forward by service grids, adaptive service configuration is of essential importance to applications. This paper proposes an approach called CAFISE, which tries to better facilitate on-demand configuration and dynamic reconfiguration of service grid applications. In CAFISE, a business design and its supporting software system are considered in a coherent way, and a convergent relation, which helps to map business-level configurations to software-level configurations, is highlighted. The paper is particularly devoted to presenting and discussing the principles, reference model, modeling language and supporting application framework of CAFISE. Since practical usefulness is highly valued in the development of CAFISE, the application of the approach to a real-world scenario is also presented in the paper.

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    YanBo Han, ZhuoFeng Zhao, Gang Li, DongShan Xing, QingZhong Lv, JianWu Wang, JinHua Xiong & Hao Liu

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.60173018, the Young Scientist Fund of ICT under Grant No.20026180-22, and the Key Scientific and Technological Program for the Tenth Five-Year Plan of China under Grant No.2001BA904B07.

HAN YanBo is a professor of the Institute of Computing Technology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He holds the Ph.D. degree received from the Technical University of Berlin, Germany. His current research interests are middleware and software integration technologies, service-oriented computing, and software engineering of Internet-based applications.

ZHAO ZhuoFeng is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Computing Technology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interests are service composition, service-oriented application and workflow technologies.

LI Gang received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He is a research assistant of ICT, the Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interests are service-oriented grid computing, adaptive software architecture and software evolution.

XING DongShan received his Ph.D. degree in computer theory and application from Xi'an Jiaotong University. He is a post-doc research assistant at ICT, the Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interests are web mining and software evolution.

LV QingZhong is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Computer Engineering, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. His research interests are software engineering, knowledge representation and ontology, and semantics enabled web services.

WANG JianWu is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Computing Technology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interests are service-oriented application, workflow technologies and service grids.

XIONG JinHua is an associate professor of the Institute of Computing Technology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences. His current research interests are software integration technologies, service-oriented computing, and business-modeling technologies.

LIU Hao is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Computing Technology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interests are software integration, software architecture and workflow technologies.

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Han, Y., Zhao, Z., Li, G. et al. CAFISE: An approach to enabling adaptive configuration of service grid applications. J. Comput. Sci. & Technol. 18, 484–494 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02948923

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