WS-Policy4MASC is a policy language for managing
Web service
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* a service offered by an electronic device to another electronic device, communicating with each other via the Internet, or
* a server running on a computer device, listening for requests at a particular port over a n ...
s and their composition.
Overview
WS-Policy4MASC extends a widely used industrial standard,
WS-Policy WS-Policy is a specification that allows web services to use XML to advertise their policies (on security, quality of service, etc.) and for web service consumers to specify their policy requirements.
WS-Policy is a W3C recommendation as of Septemb ...
, with information necessary for run-time management, including the unique support for autonomic
business-driven IT management (BDIM). The specifications of diverse financial and non-financial
business value
In management, business value is an informal term that includes all forms of Value (economics), value that determine the health and well-being of the firm in the long run. Business value expands concept of value of the firm beyond economic value (a ...
metrics and business strategies that guide business-value driven selection among alternative control (adaptation) actions are the main distinctive characteristics and contributions of WS-Policy4MASC. WS-Policy4MASC also supports other management aspects, such as
fault management
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and maximization of technical QoS metrics. It has built-in constructs for specification of a wide range of adaptations and events common in management of
service-oriented systems and
business process
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es they implement.
References
Tosic, V., Erradi, A., & Maheshwari, P. (2007). WS-Policy4MASC - A WS-Policy extension used in the Manageable and Adaptable Service Compositions (MASC) middleware. In van der Aalst, W.M.P., L.-J. Zhang, & P.C.K. Hung (Eds.), Proceedings of SCC 2007 (pp. 458–465). Los Alamitos, USA: IEEE-CS Press.
Web service specifications