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Technical Challenges in Market-Driven Automated Service Provisioning
Authors: Anna Chmielowiec ,
Guillaume Pierre,
Jaap Gordijn and
Maarten van Steen.
Source: Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Middleware for Service Oriented Computing,
December 2008.
Abstract
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In today's practice, we see readily precomposed commercial service
bundles, such as a spam-free email box, consisting of more elementary
services like mail storage and a spam-filter. However, these bundles
may be suboptimal from the customer's perspective in terms of price
and/or the elementary services that constitute the bundle. It would be
advantageous to the customer if a service bundle more closely
fulfilled the customer's individual requirements, by selecting the
most appropriate elementary services included in the bundle. Also, by
obtaining the bundle from a consortium of suppliers, rather than just
one single supplier, the elementary services of each supplier with the
best cost/benefit ratio can be selected. To put this vision into
reality, we need middleware facilitating the automated composition of
multisupplier bundles out of basic commercial services available
online. We take the stand that the business nature of commercial
services imposes leading requirements on the technical design of the
middleware. Most importantly, the middleware should be fair in the
sense that no single supplier obtains a preferred position in terms of
service selection to satisfy a specific customer need. Also, the
middleware should be able to deal with alternative services as offered
by many competing suppliers, not to speak about the combinatoric
explosion, resulting from combining the available services into
candidate services bundles. We present a list of problems to be solved
to arrive at middleware for multi-supplier service selection, bundling
and provisioning. Also, we review existing work, usable to build a
fair and efficient middleware solution for commercial service
provisioning.
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@InProceedings{,
author = {Anna Chmielowiec and Guillaume Pierre and Jaap Gordijn
and Maarten van Steen},
title = {Technical Challenges in Market-Driven
Automated Service Provisioning},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Middleware for
Service-Oriented Computing},
address = {Leuven, Belgium},
month = dec,
year = {2008},
note = {\url{http://www.globule.org/publi/TCMDASP_mw4soc2008.html}}
}
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gpierre@cs.vu.nl
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