Section: Scientific Foundations

Reliable Middleware

As already sketched earlier, Service-Oriented Computing (SoC) forms the next evolutionary step in the creation of flexible, distributed, software systems. A key question is what is the best way to distribute business logic in a service-oriented architecture so that the services remain reusable and the process flow remains maintainable. In this project we scope these issues to the domain of distributing analysis and transformation tasks over different tools and making these tools cooperate.

Goals

The key question is to investigate how the realities of workflow-based solutions and the promises of service-oriented systems can be reconciled. Our goal is to obtain reliable tool composition can be achieved for scalable analysis and transformation systems.