Title: A configurable service-based framework for composition, delivery and evaluation of composite web services in distributed QoS-aware ICT environment

Authors: Krzysztof Juszczyszyn; Paweł Świątek; Paweł Stelmach; Adam Grzech

Addresses: Wrocław University of Technology, Wyb. Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370 Wrocław, Poland ' Wrocław University of Technology, Wyb. Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370 Wrocław, Poland ' Wrocław University of Technology, Wyb. Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370 Wrocław, Poland ' Wrocław University of Technology, Wyb. Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370 Wrocław, Poland

Abstract: We present the architecture of novel framework for the composition and execution of web services, called platform for telecommunications (PlaTel). In this framework we consider ontology-based service description, service composition, communication link modelling as well as the application of ontology in the service discovery. We provide a unified approach to the ontological description of services and propose the use of upper level ontologies which have partially predefined structure covering all concepts used for functional description of services, QoS and communication modelling and domain-specific description of the services. Additionally, the PlaTel framework has several unique features which stem from the idea of addressing problems of service execution and composition by means of dedicated and configurable composite web services (the components of our framework).

Keywords: service-oriented architecture; SOA; services delivery platform; web services composition; web services execution; QoS; quality of service; quality assurance; ICT service mapping; information and communications technology; information technology; ontology; communication modelling; service discovery; cloud computing.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCC.2013.055270

International Journal of Cloud Computing, 2013 Vol.2 No.2/3, pp.258 - 272

Published online: 28 Feb 2014 *

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