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Event-Driven Actors for Supporting Flexibility and Scalability in Service-Based Integration Architecture

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On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2012 (OTM 2012)

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Service-based software systems are often built by incorporating functionalities from other software systems or platforms. A widely used approach in practice is to introduce an intermediate integration layer for hiding the complexity and heterogeneity of the integrated systems or platforms. However, existing approaches introduce limited support for the flexibility of the integration architecture. It is challenging to alter the integration architecture, e.g., due to some exceptions or unanticipated situations such as peak loads or emergencies, because of rigid dependency structures in the integration architecture defined at design or deployment time. In this paper, we propose DERA as a novel approach that exploits event-driven architecture concepts for enhancing the flexibility and scalability of service-based integration architectures. Our approach provides primitive concepts that can easily be analyzed with tools or be used to depict a current snapshot of the integration architecture using graphical notations close to the intuitive perception of stakeholders. We show the applicability of DERA through an industrial case study in the field of software platform integration and evaluate the scalability of our approach.

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    Huy Tran & Uwe Zdun

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Semantic Technology and Application Research Laboratory (STARLab), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Building G-10, Pleinlaan 2, 1050, Brussels, Belgium

    Robert Meersman

  2. Research Centre for Automatic Control, School of Engineering in Information Technology, University of Lorraine, CNRS, Campus scientifique, BP 70239, 54506, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France

    Hervé Panetto

  3. La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Tharam Dillon

  4. Faculty of Computer Science, University of Vienna, 1010, Vienna, Austria

    Stefanie Rinderle-Ma

  5. Institute of Databases and Information Systems, Ulm University, Germany

    Peter Dadam

  6. School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland, 4072, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

    Xiaofang Zhou

  7. HP Labs, Bristol, UK

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  8. Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria

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  9. Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy

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Tran, H., Zdun, U. (2012). Event-Driven Actors for Supporting Flexibility and Scalability in Service-Based Integration Architecture. In: Meersman, R., et al. On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2012. OTM 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7565. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33606-5_11

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