Web Service E-Contract Establishment Using Features

Electronic contracts describe inter-organizational business processes in terms of supply and consumption of electronic services (commonly Web services). In a given contract domain, it is usually possible to identify a set of welldefined common and variation points. Feature modeling is an ontology-like technique that has been widely used for capturing and managing commonalities and variabilities of product families in the context of software product line. This paper proposes a feature-based approach in order to decrease the complexity in Web service e-contract establishment. The feasibility of the approach is shown by a case study carried out within the telecom context and based on experimental software engineering concepts.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: BPM
• Authors: Marcelo Fantinato, Itana Maria de Souza Gimenes, Maria Beatriz Felgar de Toledo
• Keywords: BPM 2006, Business, Inter-organizational Business Processes, Service E-contract Establishment, Web Service