Metrics for BPEL Process Reusability Analysis in a Workflow System

IEEE Systems Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 36-45

  Khoshkbarforoushha, Alireza ^a   Jamshidi, Pooyan ^b   Gholami, Mahdi Fahmideh ^c   Wang, Lizhe ^d   Ranjan, Rajiv ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Business process execution language (BPEL) process reusability; composite service; service reusability analysis; service oriented architecture (SOA) metric

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INFORMATION SERVICES; PROBABILITY; REUSABILITY; WEB SERVICES;

BPEL PROCESS REUSABILITIES; BUSINESS PROCESS EXECUTION LANGUAGE; COMPOSITE SERVICES; DESIGN ALTERNATIVES; EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; QUANTITATIVE METRIC; SERVICE REUSABILITIES; STATISTICAL CORRELATION;

SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA);

EID: 84899771262     PISSN: 19328184     EISSN: 19379234     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSYST.2014.2317310     Document Type: Article

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