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Literature Review

This chapter presents a review of existing literature to analyse the past attempts that improved the adaptability in service orchestration. As a pretext to the discussion, Section 3.1 provides an overview of BPM (business process management). Section 3.2 then describes how BPM and SOA (service-oriented architecture) complement each other in the enterprise architecture to provide a combined solution to orchestrate distributed applications or services. Section 3.3 discusses the current understanding of the adaptability in BPM.

Keywords

Variability; adaptability; templates; aspects; business rules; service proxy; flexibility; BPEL

This chapter presents a review of existing literature to analyse the past attempts that improved the ...

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