Self-healing Web service compositions

SOAs (service oriented architectures) are becoming a new paradigm for flexible coordination between business partners within continuously evolving and heterogeneous environments. In these environments, the set of available services with which to do business changes constantly in number and type, hindering the degree of trustworthiness. In this research, the author focuses on how to augment this trust through the use of self-healing Web service compositions. There are three dimensions along which this research move to achieve the aforementioned goals: service composition and process description, monitoring and recovery strategies.