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Organizations are adopting Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) to simplify system landscape, reduce costs and achieve deadlines. To accomplish these goals, it is necessary to ensure that the architecture and its evolution are compliant with business goals, best practices, legal and regulatory requirements. However, compliance verification of SOA is difficult due to the wide set of domains and the heterogeneity of the elements used to compose a service oriented solution. Although ontologies and rules could provide a solution for this problem, this approach cannot represent and verify a significant set of governance policies. Therefore, we propose intelliGOV, an architecture that gathers data from SOA environment, loads it in an ontology and uses semantic rules and queries to verify compliance. A case study conducted in a global energy company provides evidence of solution expressiveness, low coding demand and independence of methods and tools.
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Filho, H.M.T., Azevedo, L.G., Siqueira, S. (2014). intelliGOV – Compliance Verification of Service-Oriented Architectures with Ontologies and Semantic Rules and Queries. In: Decker, H., Lhotská, L., Link, S., Spies, M., Wagner, R.R. (eds) Database and Expert Systems Applications. DEXA 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8644. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10073-9_34
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