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Service Engineering
Achieving increased automation requires open, distributed, service-oriented systems capable of multi-criteria driven, dynamic adaptation for appropriate response to changing operating conditions. A service is a self-describing and self-contained modular application designed to execute a well-delimited task, and that can be described, published, located, and invoked over a network. Services are offered by service providers, that is, organizations that ensure service implementations, advertise service descriptions, and provide related technical and business support.
To interact with the service-oriented system, stakeholders submit service requests. Satisfying a service request usually involves service composition, that is, the identification of appropriate services and their coordinated execution. Responsibility for service composition can either be delegated to humans or autonomous agents. Service-orientation is an attractive approach to the engineering of complex information systems for several reasons, including the fact that services are designed to be modular and interoperable, that open service-oriented systems are designed to accept entry and participation of previously unknown services, that services can be designed as interfaces to legacy systems, etc. Overall, service-oriented architectures increasingly enable organizations to make their information technology infrastructures (IT) flexible, facilitating for instance IT change management and IT outsourcing.
Engineering service-oriented systems efficiently is a critical concern at present both in research and industry. PReCISE is actively involved in several key topics in service-oriented research:
- Requirements engineering for service-oriented systems
- Architectures for enabling adaptable and open service-oriented systems
- Governance of service-oriented systems
Research Units involved
Running projects (4)
- E-Health (RW FEDER-eHeath)
(since 2009)
Rokia BENDAOUD, Lim ERBIN, Jean-Luc HAINAUT, Philippe THIRAN, Jean-Marc VAN GYSEGHEM - UsiXML
(since 2009)
Mohamed BOUKHEBOUZE, Vincent ENGLEBERT, Amanuel KOSHIMA, Waldemar Pires Ferreira NETO, Philippe THIRAN - Coordination and composition of Web Services
(since 2006)
Subramanian SATTANATHAN, Philippe THIRAN - Communities of Web Services
(since 2005)
Lim ERBIN, Jenna LOUBRIS, Michaël MRISSA, Subramanian SATTANATHAN, Philippe THIRAN
Terminated projects (4)
- Data Mediation for Web services
(2007-2009)
Michaël MRISSA, Philippe THIRAN - Web Services for the B2B
(2007-2009)
Subramanian SATTANATHAN, Philippe THIRAN - Engineering Adaptable and Open Service Systems
(2007-2008)
Stephane FAULKNER, Ivan JURETA, Philippe THIRAN - AGENT-ORIENTED FEATURES (PUR-PostDoc)
(2003-2004)
Pierre-Yves SCHOBBENS, Pascal URSO
PHDs (2)
- Sustaining Web Services High-Availability and Quality
Lim ERBIN - Social Networks on the Web: Agent-Based Model
Jenna LOUBRIS
