Specifying Flexible Charging Rules for Composable Services

Jennings, Brendan; Xu, Lei; Leastar, Eamonn de

doi:10.1109/services-1.2008.70

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“…We assume that all the part 2s are expressed using the same representation (such as the DSL described in [3]). …”

Section: • Alternative Parallelmentioning

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“…However it is important to note that all rate change modifications are expected to applied before any value change modifications. In this paper we assume that all atomic service charging schemes collected by the ALG are specified in a common representation -in our work we use the domain specific language described in Jennings et al [3]. However, in practice, it may be possible to use model transformation techniques to map different charging scheme representations to a common representation that could be processed by the ALG.…”

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“…This paper builds on our previous work [2], which initially introduced our framework, by targeting a more realistic hierarchical model of composed services, which introduces additional complexity to the charging scheme consolidation process and inter-RE communications. It assumes that charging schemes are specified using a domain specific language such as that described in [3]. The paper is stuctured as follows: in §2 we describe the composed service model the framework is designed to support; §3 provides an overview of the framework, with a focus on the Accounting Logic Generator component; §4 specifies our charging scheme consolidation algorithm; §5 describes our charging scheme deployment approach; §6 briefly describes related work; finally, §8 draws conclusions and outlines areas for further work.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Framework for Automated Creation and Deployment of Consolidated Charging Schemes for Service Compositions

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Abstract-If environments offering facilities for service composition are to be commercially successful then it will be important that service providers can avail of efficient, automated processes by which composed services can be metered, charged and billed for. In many industries, for example telecommunications, sophisticated systems are employed to provide usage and content based charging for services. In these systems charging schemes are typically manually configured and verified prior to services being made available to customers. For composed services we require a more dynamic charging approach, in which charging schemes for composed services can be automatically generated and deployed. In this paper we describe a framework that meets this need. In it, charging schemes for services making up a composed services are collected, consolidated and deployed onto multiple rating engines, which then coordinate to calculate a charge for an composed service invocation.

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“…We assume that all the part 2s are expressed using the same representation (such as the DSL described in [3]). …”

Section: • Alternative Parallelmentioning

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Service Group Management facilitated by DSL driven policies in embedded middleware

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Abstract-Middleware by its very nature is fundamental to the functioning of systems as it provides the communication between software components. It is very much an underlying technology and is rarely visible to end users. As systems develop, certain domain semantics, provided by the domain experts, need to be injected into the behaviour of the underlying middleware, but in a controlled manner. The methods used to achieve this are often static in nature, wholly dependent on how they are implemented, deployed and managed. An increasingly popular way to manage this behaviour injection is through the use of policies, a technique used to govern defined rules, triggered by associated events, resulting in specific actions when certain conditions are encountered. Strong efforts have been made throughout the evolution of software development methods and programming languages to solve the lack of dynamicity which can arise through poor practices. Successive language based attempts to attain a higher level of abstraction in the notations used and techniques deployed have resulted in the re-discovery of Domain Specific Languages (DSL). This paper looks at injecting the dynamicity required in the management of service groups through a policy based DSL.

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Automating the generation, deployment and application of charging schemes for composed communications services

Jennings

2012

2012 IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium

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Specifying Flexible Charging Rules for Composable Services

Cited by 4 publications

References 11 publications

A Framework for Automated Creation and Deployment of Consolidated Charging Schemes for Service Compositions

A Framework for Automated Creation and Deployment of Consolidated Charging Schemes for Service Compositions

Service Group Management facilitated by DSL driven policies in embedded middleware

Automating the generation, deployment and application of charging schemes for composed communications services

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