Towards a compliance-aware inter-organizational service integration platform

Abstract

Organizations are increasingly required to collaborate with each other in order to achieve their business goals. The service oriented paradigm is currently the preferred approach to carry out this collaboration as facilitates interconnecting the software systems of different organizations. More concretely, such integration is supported by integration platforms which are specialized middleware-based infrastructures enabling the provision, discovery and invocation of interoperable software services. On another hand, these integrated and collaborative environments (e.g. e-government, e-health, e-science, e-commerce and e-business) must comply with regulations originating in laws, sectorial regulations, service level agreements and standards, among others. This research aims at proposing solutions to monitor and enforce compliance requirements in inter-organizational service integration platforms. Particularly, this work addresses compliance requirements on services, information exchanged and the flow of interactions between organizations. The solutions, which are based on well-known enterprise integration patterns and other capabilities (e.g. adaptability and context-awareness), are then refined into specific middleware technologies, notably Enterprise Service Bus and Complex Event Processing engines.