This document summarizes the ALIVE project which develops tools and techniques for creating self-adaptive service-oriented architectures (SOAs). It includes a layered stack for modeling organizations, coordination, and services using model-driven architecture. Offline tools allow modeling organizations and designing workflows and services. A runtime environment enables dynamic planning, monitoring, and service discovery. The project provides ontologies, sample services, and three use cases to test the tools. The tools are open source and modular, enabling reuse and rapid prototyping of agent-based SOAs.

1. www.ist-alive.eu

2. Cool Technologies
 Stack for creating normative SOAs  Runtime
 Layered: Organisations,  Planning
Coordination, Services • Dynamic (re-)planning of
 Model-driven architecture workflows, actions and
 SW(S) technology throughout coordination activities
 Monitoring:
 Offline Tools (Eclipse)
• Across layers; from
 Organisation Modelling tool
Normative state to service
(Operetta)
interactions
 Coordination support tool: Offline
 Service discovery framework and
planning
high-performance Semantic
 Workflows: synthesis, visualization,
service matchmaker for OWL-S
maintenance
services
 Services design tools:
• Code-level service description  Adaptation
• Dynamic service templates for  Possible at multiple layers (e.g.
flexible service composition. service failure to norm change)
 Driven by MDA approach
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3. Interesting Datasets
 Ontology and model for  Three working use cases
building organisational  Tourism support system
descriptions (TMT Factory)
 Disaster management
 A set of invokable, scenario (THALES)
composable semantic  Intelligent
(OWL-S) service telecommunications
descriptions (CalicoJack)
 Suitable for testing tools
(e.g. matchmaking)
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4. Possibilities to Build on Results
 All tools are modular and most  Suitable for rapid
can be used stand alone prototyping/development of
 Organisational Design tools agent-based SOAs
 Coordination Planner
 MDA-driven tools are
 Service creation tools:
(OWLSBuilder, template
awesome!
tools)  Very fast turn around on tool
 Extensible service development
matchmaker  Everybody should do this
 Open source, all code
available on sourceforge
 LGPL/Apache licensed
 Offline tools can be imported
and reused in eclipse very
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easily

5. ALIVE Project Partners & Contact Details
 Universitat Politècnica
de Catalunya (ES)
 University of Bath (UK)
 Trinity College Dublin (EI)
 University of Aberdeen (UK)
 Utrecht University (NL)
 Calico Jack Ltd. (UK)
 TMT Factory (ES)
 Thales Nederland B. V. (NL)
Project: http://ist-alive.eu/
Code: http://ict-alive.sf.net/
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