Change Management for Semantic Web Services

Description

Change Management for Semantic Web Services provides a thorough analysis of change management in the lifecycle of services for databases and workflows, including changes that occur at the individual service level or at the aggregate composed service level. This book describes taxonomy of changes that are expected in semantic service oriented environments. The process of change management consists of detecting, propagating, and reacting to changes. Change Management for Semantic Web Services is one of the first books that discuss the development of a theoretical foundation for managing changes in atomic and long-term composed services. This book also proposes a formal model and a change language to provide sufficient semantics for change management; it devises an automatic process to react to, verify, and optimize changes. Case studies and examples are presented in the last section of this book. Front Matter....Pages 1-13 Introduction....Pages 1-18 Semantic Support for Change Management....Pages 19-30 A Supporting Infrastructure of a LCS....Pages 31-38 Top-down Change Language....Pages 39-52 Top-down Change Enactment and Change Optimization....Pages 53-70 Bottom-up Change Specification and Change Model....Pages 71-99 Bottom-up Change Management....Pages 101-113 Performance Study....Pages 115-152 Conclusion....Pages 153-156 Back Matter....Pages 168-174