MaTRICS: a management tool for the remote intelligent configuration of (pervasive) systems

Service-Oriented Computing – ICSOC 2007

Steffen

Reitenspieß³

2005

Service-Oriented Design has driven the development of telecommunication infrastructure and applications, in particular the so-called Intelligent Network (IN) Services, since the early 90s. A serviceoriented, feature-based architecture, a corresponding standardization of basic services and applications in real standards, and adequate programming environments enabled flexibilization of services, and dramatically reduced the time to market. Today the current trend toward triple-play services, which blend voice, video, and data on broadband wireline and wireless services builds on this successful experience when reaching for new technological and operational challenges. In this paper, we review our 10 years of experience in service engineering for telecommunication systems from the point of view of Service-Oriented Design then and now.

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Service-Oriented Design: The Roots

Service-Oriented Computing – ICSOC 2007

Steffen

Reitenspieß³

2005

“…The DaCapo and later the META-Frame Tool can be regarded as first service-oriented environments where tool building blocks could be graphically composed into workflows [77,111,121]. After an industrial project with Siemens Nixdorf in 1995/96, where this tool was applied to construct a service definition environment for value-added services that has subsequently been sold to over 30 Telecoms world-wide [19,107], the META-Frame tool was again renamed, now to Application Building Center (ABC), and later on re-implemented as the jABC tool in Java since 2003 and applied in numerous industrial and scientific projects (such as [9,10,40,52,73,95]). Driving forces for the further development were the scientific workflow projects reported in more detail in the course of this paper.…”

Section: Principlesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Scientific workflows with the jABC framework

Lamprecht

Steffen

Int J Softw Tools Technol Transfer

2016

The jABC is a framework for process modelling and execution according to the XMDD (eXtreme Model-Driven Design) paradigm, which advocates the rigorous use of user-level models in the software development process and software life cycle. We have used the jABC in the domain of scientific workflows for more than a decade now -an occasion to look back and take stock of our experiences in the field. On the one hand, we discuss results from the analysis of a sample of nearly 100 scientific workflow applications that have been implemented with the jABC. On the other hand, we reflect on our experiences and observations regarding the workflow development process with the framework. We then derive and discuss ongoing further developments and future perspectives for the framework, all with an emphasis on simplicity for end-users through increased domain specificity. Concretely, we describe how the use of the PROPHETS synthesis plugin can enable a semanticsbased simplification of the workflow design process, how with the jABC4 and DyWA frameworks more attention is paid to the ease of data management, and how the Cinco SCCE Meta Tooling Suite can be used to generate tailored workflow management tools.

“…It offers -An architecture for the platform independent management and platform dependent execution of configuration tasks, which comprise in our vocabulary installation, update, upgrade, reconfiguration of system and application software packages -Facilities for carrying out these configuration tasks from thin, mobile clients (like phone, fax, PDAs) 1 A preliminary version of this work has appeared in [1].…”

Section: The Matrics Ideamentioning

confidence: 99%

MaTRICS: A service-based management tool for remote intelligent configuration of systems

Bajohr

Innovations Syst Softw Eng

2006

With MaTRICS, we describe a service-oriented architecture that allows remotely connected users to modify the configuration of any service provided by a specific (application) server, like email-, news-or web-servers. Novel to our approach is that the system can manage configuration processes on heterogeneous software-and hardware-platforms, which are performed from a variety of peripherals unmatched in today's practice, where devices like mobile phones, faxes, PDAs are enabled to be used by system managers as remote system configuration and management tools.