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End-to-end reliability of service oriented applications

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  • Hangjung Zo

    (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)

  • Derek L. Nazareth

    (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

  • Hemant K. Jain

    (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

Abstract

As organizations move towards adopting a service oriented architecture that permits the coexistence of multiple technology environments, an increasing number of applications will be developed through the assembly of existing software components with standard web service interfaces. These components with web service interfaces may be available in-house, or may be supplied or hosted by external vendors. The use of multiple services, possibly utilizing different technologies, providers, locations, and sources, has implications for the end-to-end reliability of these applications to support a business process. Selecting the best service for individual tasks in a business process does not guarantee the most effective overall solution, particularly if criteria other than functional characteristics are employed. This paper examines reliability issues associated with applications developed within service oriented architecture. It develops a measure for deriving end-to-end application reliability, and develops a model to help select appropriate services for tasks in the business process which accommodate the redundant and overlapping functionality of available services and planned redundancy in task support to satisfy the reliability requirement of the resulting application. A genetic algorithm approach is adopted to select promising services to assemble the application using end-to-end reliability as the criterion of interest. An application to a real-world business process illustrates the effectiveness of the approach.

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  • Hangjung Zo & Derek L. Nazareth & Hemant K. Jain, 2012. "End-to-end reliability of service oriented applications," Information Systems Frontiers, Springer, vol. 14(5), pages 971-986, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:infosf:v:14:y:2012:i:5:d:10.1007_s10796-011-9308-y
    DOI: 10.1007/s10796-011-9308-y
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    1. Vincent Cho & Aman Chan, 2015. "An integrative framework of comparing SaaS adoption for core and non-core business operations: An empirical study on Hong Kong industries," Information Systems Frontiers, Springer, vol. 17(3), pages 629-644, June.
    2. R. Ramesh & H. Raghav Rao, 2012. "Information systems frontiers editorial December 2012," Information Systems Frontiers, Springer, vol. 14(5), pages 963-965, December.

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