During the last couple of years, virtual communities (VCs) have gained worldwide popularity and conquer different domains, from business to medicine to aviation to education to entertainment to technology. Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) proves to be a major catalyzer in the creation of software applications due to its rapid development, distributed feature and dynamic adaptability. Mediation systems (MS) on the other hand played a critical role in Service Oriented Computing (SOC) to promote loose coupling between service providers and consumers. Dynamic evolution, monitoring and management of services are critical factors that affect the lifespan of VCs. Moreover, providing the right service to the right user on the right time is an ultimate objective for VCs to achieve. We propose a new model that will serve virtual communities regardless of their types or objectives. The model is built on top of SOA and empowered with MS.
Virtual Communities (VCs) are dominating our daily activities from different insights. Social, Business, Professional, Educational and many VCs are competing to conquer the cloud by targeting more audience through the services they provide. The diversity, magnitude and quality of provided services raise a new challenge for managing these services. Consequently, the success or failure of VCs depends to a great extent on the robustness and dynamicity of managing their services. The concepts of decoupling and dynamic allocation of services found in SOA encourage us to adopt this architecture to develop a framework to manage services provided inside VCs. The core of this framework is a service mediation system in charge of providing, monitoring and maintaining services inside VCs. The objective of this work is to make sure community members are getting the services they need with the quality they request at the time they want within the VC they belong to.We intend to have this work generic enough to be adapted to different service oriented disciplines.
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