TY - GEN
T1 - Facilitating enterprise service discovery for non-technical business users
AU - Roy, Marcus
AU - Suleiman, Basem
AU - Weber, Ingo
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Enterprise Services (ES) are Web services with which enterprise applications expose a subset of their functionality. Due to the often high number of different ES, as well as the complex nature of their names, it is difficult for non-technical business users to discover services in ES repositories. However, most of this complexity stems from a SOA governance-driven service design process that is essential to the development of harmonized and long-lasting ES. Based on the example of SAP's ES, we describe a representational model that consolidates existing models and patterns used during the service design process. We created an iterative search approach that uses this consolidated metadata. The evaluation of the approach with real business users, based on a prototypical implementation, demonstrates that our iterative search is more efficient and effective than the currently offered search.
AB - Enterprise Services (ES) are Web services with which enterprise applications expose a subset of their functionality. Due to the often high number of different ES, as well as the complex nature of their names, it is difficult for non-technical business users to discover services in ES repositories. However, most of this complexity stems from a SOA governance-driven service design process that is essential to the development of harmonized and long-lasting ES. Based on the example of SAP's ES, we describe a representational model that consolidates existing models and patterns used during the service design process. We created an iterative search approach that uses this consolidated metadata. The evaluation of the approach with real business users, based on a prototypical implementation, demonstrates that our iterative search is more efficient and effective than the currently offered search.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79952961487&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-19394-1_11
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-19394-1_11
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79952961487
SN - 9783642193934
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 100
EP - 110
BT - Service-Oriented Computing - ICSOC 2010 International Workshops PAASC, WESOA, SEE, and SOC-LOG, Revised Selected Papers
T2 - 8th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2010
Y2 - 7 December 2010 through 10 December 2010
ER -