Title: A rule-based approach for multi-perspective adaptation of service-based systems

Authors: Sridevi Saralaya; Vishwas Saralaya; Rio D'Souza

Addresses: St Joseph Engg. College, Mangaluru 575028, India ' Kasturba Medical College (Manipal Academy of Higher Education), Mangaluru 575001, India ' St Joseph Engg. College Mangaluru 575028, India

Abstract: A key feature of any business process (BP) implemented as service-based system (SBS) is adherence to compliance. BP workflows are frequently prone to faults or anomalies of various kinds namely, functional, temporal, structural, regulatory or technological updates. If faults are not handled in a timely manner, it may result in violation of service level agreements (SLAs). Therefore it is crucial for any BP to be flexible enough to adapt to changes of various categories. Current adaptation approaches try to adapt from either data (interface) mismatches from service perspective, temporal requirements from business perspective or resource constraints from the infrastructure perspective. We propose an adaptation framework which is capable of recovering from data, control-flow, temporal and infrastructure faults. The prototypical implementation using rule based approach is applied on a laboratory simulation.

Keywords: multi-perspective adaptation; SBS; service-based systems; fault recovery; rule-based adaptation; business process adaptation; proactive adaptation; reactive adaptation; e-government; e-health.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEG.2019.101496

International Journal of Electronic Governance, 2019 Vol.11 No.2, pp.132 - 154

Received: 04 Oct 2017
Accepted: 25 May 2018
Published online: 11 Aug 2019 *

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