Abstract
Software as a Service (SaaS) aims to provide utility-oriented software delivery and provisioning. While software being published as reusable Web APIs, users can quickly compose multiple services into a new value-added process: a mashup. However, various users may have different requirements, thus preferring to compose the same set of services in different ways. Therefore, there is a need to provide a unified way for users to configure and compose services. RGPS (Role, Goal, Process, and Service) is an ongoing ISO-standard meta-model framework for describing service usage requirements. This chapter presents an approach of leveraging RGPS to help users configure a personalized service-based mashup. Based on users’ requirements, a hierarchical goal tree is generated for users to further refine their business goals. According to mappings between goals and variation points in business process templates, a personalized business process will be created. One task in a business process may be realized by an external service. Corresponding visualization tools are introduced to assist users. This chapter also describes a case study of customizing a mashup over an established service supermarket.
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The work is partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 61202031, 60970017, 61100017, the National Science and Technology Pillar Program of China under grant No.2012BAH07B01, the central grant funded Cloud Computing demonstration project of China undertaken by Kingdee Software (China).
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Wang, J., Feng, Z., Zhang, J., Hung, P., He, K., Zhang, LJ. (2014). A Unified RGPS-Based Approach Supporting Service-Oriented Process Customization. In: Bouguettaya, A., Sheng, Q., Daniel, F. (eds) Web Services Foundations. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7518-7_26
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