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An Architectural Approach to End User Orchestrations

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posted on 2011-09-01, 00:00 authored by Vishal Dwivedi, Perla Velasco-Elizondo, Jose Maria Fernandes, David Garlan, Bradley Schmerl

Computations are pervasive across many domains, where end users have to compose various heterogeneous computational entities to perform professional activities. Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a widely used mechanism that can support such forms of compositions as it allows heterogeneous systems to be wrapped as services that can then be combined with each other. However, current SOA orchestration languages require writing scripts that are typically too low-level for end users to write, being targeted at professional programmers and business analysts. To address this problem, this paper proposes a composition approach based on an end user specification style called SCORE. SCORE is an architectural style that uses high-level constructs that can be tailored for different domains and automatically translated into executable constructs by tool support. We demonstrate the use of SCORE in two domains - dynamic network analysis and neuroscience, where users are intelligence analysts and neuroscientists respectively, who use the architectural style based vocabulary in SCORE as a basis of their domain-specific compositions that can be formally analyzed.

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The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23798-0_39

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2011-09-01

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