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Comprehensive Variability Modeling and Management for Customizable Process-Based Service Compositions

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Variability in process-based service compositions needs to be explicitly modeled and managed in order to facilitate service/process customization and increase reuse in service/process development. While related work has been able to capture variability and variability dependencies within a composition, these approaches fail to capture variability dependencies between the composition and partner services. Consequently, these approaches cannot address the situation when a customizable composite service is orchestrated from partner services which themselves are customizable. In this article, we describe a feature-based approach that is able to effectively model variability within and across compositions. The approach is supported by a process development methodology that enables the systematic reuse and management of variability. A prototype system supporting extended BPMN 2.0 is used to demonstrate the feasibility of the approach.

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    Strictly speaking, abstract process variants still contain new modeling elements such as DataObjectVariant, ConversationVariant, or PartnerTask. However, these elements are inherited from BPMN elements without additional properties. They are regarded as BPMN elements in generating BPEL definition

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This research was carried out as part of the activities of, and funded by, the Smart Services Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) through the Australian Government’s CRC Programme (Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research).

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    Tuan Nguyen, Alan Colman & Jun Han

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Nguyen, T., Colman, A., Han, J. (2014). Comprehensive Variability Modeling and Management for Customizable Process-Based Service Compositions. 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_20

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