Title
Composition of engineering web services with distributed data-flows and computations
Abstract
This paper describes an experimental Flow-based Infrastructure for Composing Autonomous Services (FICAS), which supports a service-composition paradigm that integrates loosely coupled software components. For traditional software service composition frameworks, the data-flows and control-flows are centrally coordinated, and the composed service operates as the hub for all data communications. FICAS, on the other hand, employs a distributed data-flow approach that supports direct data exchanges among web services. The distributed data-flows can avoid many performance bottlenecks attending centralized processing. The performance and flexibility of FICAS are further improved by adopting active mediation, which distributes computations within the service framework, and reduces the amount of data traffic significantly by moving computations closer to the data. A system has been prototyped to integrate several project management and scheduling software applications. The prototype implementation demonstrates that distributed data-flow, combining with active mediation, is effective and more efficient than centralized processing when integrating large engineering software services.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1016/j.aei.2005.01.008
Advanced Engineering Informatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
project management,mobile class,active mediation,service integration,data traffic,engineering web service,scheduling software application,engineering web services,centralized processing,data communication,large engineering software service,software component,direct data exchange,traditional software service composition,service framework,distributed data-flow,distributed data flow,control flow,web service,distributed computing,data flow,class
Distributed data flow,Service (systems architecture),Computer science,Scheduling (computing),Software,Component-based software engineering,Web service,Computation,Project management,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
19
1
Advanced Engineering Informatics
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
0.62
29
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
David Liu1314.79
Jun Peng2142.27
Kincho H. Law332944.03
Gio Wiederhold442601502.89
Ram D. Sriram557356.27