Title: On composing Dependable Web Services using undependable web components

Authors: Anatoliy Gorbenko, Vyacheslav Kharchenko, Alexander Romanovsky

Addresses: Department of Computer Systems and Networks (503), National Aerospace University, Kharkiv, 61070, Ukraine. ' Department of Computer Systems and Networks (503), National Aerospace University, Kharkiv, 61070, Ukraine. ' School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK

Abstract: This paper proposes a novel approach to constructing and modelling Dependable Web Services (DeW) that are built by composing web components that can be undependable. This is achieved by applying a structured approach to the Web Services (WSs) development, based on the Web Service Composition Actions (WSCAs) scheme and a corresponding event-driven simulation model of composite WS. The dependability and fault-tolerance of composite WS is achieved by employing forward error recovery based on multilevel system structuring enabling application-specific exception handling.

Keywords: web service composition; dependability; error recovery; simulation; service-oriented computing; trust; fault tolerance; exception handling.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSPM.2007.014714

International Journal of Simulation and Process Modelling, 2007 Vol.3 No.1/2, pp.45 - 54

Published online: 26 Jul 2007 *

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