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The proliferation of smart spaces and emergence of new standards, such as Web Services, have paved the way for a new breed of software systems. Often the complete functional and QoS requirements of such software systems are not known a priori at design-time, and even if they are, they may change at run-time. Unfortunately, the majority of existing software engineering techniques rely heavily on human reasoning and manual intervention, making them inapplicable for automatic composition of such software systems at run-time. Moreover, these approaches are primarily intended to be used by technically knowledgeable software engineers, as opposed to domain users. In this paper, we present Service Activity Schemas (SAS), an activity-oriented language for modeling software system’s functional and QoS requirements. SAS targets service-oriented software systems, and relies on an ontology to provide domain experts with modeling constructs that are intuitively understood. SAS forms the centerpiece of a framework intended for user-driven composition and adaptation of service-oriented software systems in a pervasive setting. We provide a detailed description of SAS in the context of a case study and formally specify its structural and dynamic properties.
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Esfahani, N., Malek, S., Sousa, J.P., Gomaa, H., Menascé, D.A. (2009). A Modeling Language for Activity-Oriented Composition of Service-Oriented Software Systems. In: Schürr, A., Selic, B. (eds) Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems. MODELS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5795. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04425-0_46
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