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In order for service-oriented architectures (SOAs) to deliver their true value for the business, e.g. flexibility and transparency, a holistic service management needs to be set up in the enterprise. To perform all the service management tasks efficiently heavy support by automated processes and tools is necessary. This article describes a service description approach that is based on OWL-S (Web Ontology Language for Services) and focuses on nonfunctional criteria. It starts with the necessary service management tasks and explains non-functional data elements and statements for its automated support. After covering related work it explains the proposed flexible extension to OWL-S. This extension is twofold. Firstly, simple service lifecycle elements are added using the normal extension mechanism. Secondly for adding QoS (Quality of Service) capabilities, the approach combines this extension mechanism with UML (Unified Modeling Language) Profile for QoS. A prototype delivers the proof-of-concept.
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Schröpfer, C., Schönherr, M., Offermann, P., Ahrens, M. (2007). A Flexible Approach to Service Management-Related Service Description in SOAs. In: Pautasso, C., Bussler, C. (eds) Emerging Web Services Technology. Whitestein Series in Software Agent Technologies and Autonomic Computing. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-8448-7_5
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