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Moving Active Functionality from Centralized to Open Distributed Heterogeneous Environments

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Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 2001)

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Active functionality is especially useful for enforcing business rules in applications, such as Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and e-commerce. It can be used as glue among existing applications, and for data transformations between heterogeneous applications. However, traditional active mechanisms have been designed for centralized systems and are monolithic, thus making it difficult to extend and adapt them to the requirements imposed by distributed, heterogeneous environments. To correct this we present a flexible, extensible, service-based architecture built on ontologies, services and events/notifications. The main contributions of this work are: i) the homogeneous use of ontologies for a semantically meaningful exchange and combination of events in open heterogeneous environments, and for the infrastructure itself; ii) a flexible architecture for the composition of autonomous, elementary services to provide Event-Condition-Action (ECA) functionality in different configurations; iii) the interaction of these services via notifications using a publish/subscribe mechanism (concept-based addressing).

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  1. Databases and Distributed Systems Group, Department of Computer Science, Darmstadt University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany

    Mariano Cilia, Christof Bornhövd & Alejandro P. Buchmann

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  1. Department of Systems and Computer Science, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Via Salaria 113, 00198, Roma, Italy

    Carlo Batini  & Massimo Mecella  & 

  2. Department of Information and Communication Technology, University of Trento, Via Sommarive 14, 38050 Povo, Trento, Italy

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Cilia, M., Bornhövd, C., Buchmann, A.P. (2001). Moving Active Functionality from Centralized to Open Distributed Heterogeneous Environments. In: Batini, C., Giunchiglia, F., Giorgini, P., Mecella, M. (eds) Cooperative Information Systems. CoopIS 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2172. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44751-2_16

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