Modeling and analysis of service interactions in service-oriented software

Abstract

As the Internet usage increases rapidly, an earnest desire for flexible software applications grows larger for reflecting diverse users' demands, for handling evolution of software applications, and for treating pressure of short-term development cycle. In this trend of flexible software, service-oriented software concept is introduced, in which a system is considered as a set of flexible or distributed services. In service-oriented software approach, it is necessary to provide an analysis environment for abnormal service interactions as well as to provide a service execution framework. In this paper, we provide an approach for modeling and analyzing service interactions by using Petri nets. As a case study, feature interactions in the telecommunication literature are discussed as an example of service-oriented software approach. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2003.