Context-based Service Performance Profile Management System in SOA

Date/Time:  Tuesday, May 28th, 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Location:  Engineering Hall 4106

Committee Chair:
Kwei-Jay Lin

Abstract
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a software paradigm for providing a uniform means to discover, interact with and use capabilities to produce desired effects consistent withmeasurable preconditions and expectation. SOA also provides a framework for service com-position by putting together of a number of services to make a more complex one to fulfill a business process and service reconfiguration by replacing faulty services with better perform-ing services to have seamless business process execution. In general, service integration tries to maximize the performance of a business process such as to have a minimum latency, the shortest response time, the optimal reliability, an acceptable level of security and so on. Al-though technology exists to optimize the performance in terms of the above QoS attributes, it still may not meet the need of all users, since user may have unique service requirement at some specific context.

In order to address this issue, in this dissertation, we present an approach to improve over-all performance for the execution of business process by considering context-based serviceperformance profile management through Context Manager. Context Manager is designed to collect service performance feedback from users along with their context data, maintain
service performance profile data, distinguish influential context for service performance, pre-dict how the service would perform under user context and provide most-adaptive service for user context.

Our experiment results indicate that context manager system effectively maintains service performance profile data, clearly understands the influence of some specific context attributes on service performance and provides context-adaptive services as users expect. Moreover, integrating context-awareness into SOA brings significant performance improvement in terms of lower rate of service failure and reconfiguration, and more optimal response time between service requester and service provider.