Assessing Component’s Behavioral Interoperability Concerning Goals

Ma, Weimin; Chung, Lawrence; Cooper, Kendra M. L.

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-88875-8_67

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“…The application of their framework is similar to the Phase I and II of our IAI process, but does not replace the need for thorough interoperability testing, i.e., Phase III of the IAI process. Ma et al assess interoperability of components using translation rules that also consider the goals of stakeholders based on interoperability requirements [89]. In their approach, declarative requirements of components are compared to the stakeholders' goals, which are both translated or respectively defined in the declarative language called Alloy [78].…”

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Assessing and Improving Interoperability of Distributed Systems

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Achieving interoperability of distributed systems offers means for the development of new and innovative business solutions. Interoperability allows the combination of existing services provided on different systems, into new or extended services. Such an integration can also increase the reliability of the provided service. However, achieving and assessing interoperability is a technical challenge that requires high effort regarding time and costs. The reasons are manifold and include differing implementations of standards as well as the provision of proprietary interfaces. The implementations need to be engineered to be interoperable. Techniques that assess and improve interoperability systematically are required.For the assurance of reliable interoperation between systems, interoperability needs to be assessed and improved in a systematic manner. To this aim, we present the Interoperability Assessment and Improvement (IAI) process, which describes in three phases how interoperability of distributed homogeneous and heterogeneous systems can be improved and assessed systematically. The interoperability assessment is achieved by means of interoperability testing, which is typically performed manually. For the automation of interoperability test execution, we present a new methodology including a generic development process for a complete and automated interoperability test system. This methodology provides means for a formalized and systematic assessment of systems' interoperability in an automated manner. Compared to manual interoperability testing, the application of our methodology has the following benefits: wider test coverage, consistent test execution, and test repeatability.We evaluate the IAI process and the methodology for automated interoperability testing in three case studies. Within the first case study, we instantiate the IAI process and the methodology for Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) networks, which were previously assessed for interoperability only in a manual manner. Within the second and third case study, we apply the IAI process to assess and improve the interoperability of grid and cloud computing systems. Their interoperability assessment and improvement is challenging, since cloud and grid systems are, in contrast to IMS networks, heterogeneous. We develop integration and interoperability solutions for grids and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) clouds as well as for grids and Platform as a Service (PaaS) clouds. These solutions are unique and foster complementary usage of grids and clouds, simplified migration of grid applications into the cloud, as well as efficient resource utilization. In addition, we assess the interoperability of the grid-cloud interoperability solutions. While the tests for grid-IaaS clouds are performed manually, we applied our methodology for automated interoperability testing for the assessment of interoperability to grid-PaaS cloud interoperability successfully. These interoperability assessments are unique in the grid-cloud community and provid...

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Early identification, specification and measurement for data definition and database requirements

Al-Khasawneh

Al-Sarayreh

Meridji

2012

2012 International Conference on Computer, Information and Telecommunication Systems (CITS)

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Abstract-The European ECSS series of standards for the aerospace industry includes data definition and database requirements as one of sixteen types of non functional requirement (NFR) for embedded and real time software. A number of data definition and database related concepts are dispersed throughout the ECSS standards to describe at varying levels of details the various types of candidate data definition and database requirements at the system, software, and hardware levels. This paper organizes these dispersed data definition and database concepts into a generic standards-based reference model of system data definition and database requirements.

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