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Web Service E-Contract Establishment Using Features

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Business Process Management (BPM 2006)

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Electronic contracts describe inter-organizational business processes in terms of supply and consumption of electronic services (commonly Web services). In a given contract domain, it is usually possible to identify a set of well-defined common and variation points. Feature modeling is an ontology-like technique that has been widely used for capturing and managing commonalities and variabilities of product families in the context of software product line. This paper proposes a feature-based approach in order to decrease the complexity in Web service e-contract establishment. The feasibility of the approach is shown by a case study carried out within the telecom context and based on experimental software engineering concepts.

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  1. Institute of Computing, University of Campinas, Brazil

    Marcelo Fantinato & Maria Beatriz F. de Toledo

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Maringá, Brazil

    Itana Maria de S. Gimenes

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  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Leicester, University Road, LE1 7RH, Leicester, UK

    José Luiz Fiadeiro

  3. Kno.e.sis Center, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, Wright State University, 3640 Colonel Glenn Hwy, Dayton, Ohio

    Amit P. Sheth

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Fantinato, M., de S. Gimenes, I.M., de Toledo, M.B.F. (2006). Web Service E-Contract Establishment Using Features. In: Dustdar, S., Fiadeiro, J.L., Sheth, A.P. (eds) Business Process Management. BPM 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4102. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11841760_20

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