"Sensitivity in Service Design for the Development of SOA Based Systems" by Mohit Sud

Date of Award

2010

Publication Type

Master Thesis

Degree Name

M.Sc.

Department

Computer Science

Keywords

Computer Science.

Supervisor

Yuan, Xiaobu (School of Computer Science)

Rights

info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

Abstract

Service Oriented Architecture has proven itself to be a beneficial approach to software development. One of the most identifiable challenges of the SOA model is performance evaluation and service selection. To ensure the success of SOA, service requestors require a technique to evaluate existing services to identify and select the best service available for their needs. Furthermore, service providers require a method to evaluate their services to ensure there consistency, and performance. A technique of sensitivity analysis addresses these concerns by evaluating the effects of factor variation on system performance in a quantitative manner. An algorithm is produced to identify which factors are sensitive to factor variation in a software service. An experiment is performed to demonstrate the effects of sensitivity analysis as it applies to SOA systems. The experiment successfully shows that sensitivity analysis is a successful approach of evaluating a services performance and resolving issues surrounding service selection.

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