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Rapport (Rapport De Recherche) Année : 2008

Monotony in Service Orchestrations

Résumé

Web Service orchestrations are compositions of different Web Services to form a new service. The services called during the orchestration guarantee a given performance to the orchestrater, usually in the form of contracts. These contracts can be used by the orchestrater to deduce the contract it can offer to its own clients, by performing contract composition. An implicit assumption in contract based QoS management is: "the better the component services perform, the better the orchestration's performance will be". Thus, contract based QoS management for Web services orchestrations implicitly assumes monotony. In some orchestrations, however, monotony can be violated, i.e., the performance of the orchestration improves when the performance of a component service degrades. This is highly undesirable since it can render the process of contract composition inconsistent. In this paper we define monotony for orchestrations modelled by Colored Occurrence Nets (CO-nets) and we characterize the classes of monotonic orchestrations. We show that few orchestrations are indeed monotonic, mostly since latency can be traded for quality of data. We also propose a sound refinement of monotony, called conditional monotony, which forbids this kind of cheating and show that conditional monotony is widely satisfied by orchestrations. This finding leads to reconsidering the way SLAs should be formulated.
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Dates et versions

inria-00276627 , version 1 (30-04-2008)
inria-00276627 , version 2 (13-05-2008)

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  • HAL Id : inria-00276627 , version 2
  • ARXIV : 0804.4896

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Anne Bouillard, Sidney Rosario, Albert Benveniste, Stefan Haar. Monotony in Service Orchestrations. [Research Report] RR-6528, INRIA. 2008. ⟨inria-00276627v2⟩
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