Title: Ensuring sustainability of web services dependent processes

Authors: Tomasz Miksa; Rudolf Mayer; Andreas Rauber

Addresses: Secure Business Austria, Favoritenstrasse 16, 1040 Vienna, Austria ' Secure Business Austria, Favoritenstrasse 16, 1040 Vienna, Austria ' Institute for Software Technology and Interactive Systems, Vienna University of Technology, Favoritenstrasse 9-11, 1040 Vienna, Austria

Abstract: High dependence on web services and service-oriented architecture affects not only business solutions, but also scientific research. Web services may be delivered by third parties, and thus are candidates for outsourcing. However, they represent a source of risks, which can jeopardise the robustness of processes. Hence, there is a need for actions which can contribute to the mitigation of possible threats to the continuity of processes. In this paper, risk affecting processes are classified, followed by a discussion about particular changes stemming from web services. Three distinct approaches allowing improvements are described: a newly proposed web services monitoring framework supported by a software solution, the concept of resilient web services, which specifies new design requirements for web services, and digital preservation strategies, which apart from long-term benefits can support sustainability of currently running processes.

Keywords: web services; web service resilience; web service monitoring; service-oriented architecture; SOA; business continuity management; BCM; digital preservation; escrow; e-science; process sustainability; business processes; risks.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCSE.2015.067058

International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering, 2015 Vol.10 No.1/2, pp.70 - 81

Received: 02 Sep 2012
Accepted: 25 Jan 2013

Published online: 25 Jan 2015 *

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