VxBPEL: Supporting variability for Web services in BPEL

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 258-269

  Koning, Michiel ^a   Sun, Chang ai ^b   Sinnema, Marco ^a   Avgeriou, Paris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Business Process Execution Language; Service based system; Variability; Web service

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

BUSINESS INTEGRATIONS; BUSINESS PROCESS EXECUTION LANGUAGE; DESIRABLE PROPERTIES; DYNAMIC BUSINESS ENVIRONMENTS; SERVICE-BASED SYSTEM; VARIABILITY;

WEB SERVICES;

EID: 56349085910     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2007.12.002     Document Type: Article

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