A comparative study of process mediator components that support behavioral incompatibility

TL;DR

This paper analyzes various process mediator components that address behavioral incompatibility in web services, highlighting gaps and proposing directions for future research to improve automated process reconciliation.

Contribution

It provides a comparative analysis of existing process mediation components and identifies research gaps in resolving behavioral incompatibility in web services.

Findings

Analyzed state-of-the-art process mediation approaches

Identified key components and their limitations

Highlighted unexplored research areas in process mediation

Abstract

Most businesses these days use the web services technology as a medium to allow interaction between a service provider and a service requestor. However, both the service provider and the requestor would be unable to achieve their business goals when there are miscommunications between their processes. This research focuses on the process incompatibility between the web services and the way to automatically resolve them by using a process mediator. This paper presents an overview of the behavioral incompatibility between web services and the overview of process mediation in order to resolve the complications faced due to the incompatibility. Several state-of the-art approaches have been selected and analyzed to understand the existing process mediation components. This paper aims to provide a valuable gap analysis that identifies the important research areas in process mediation that have yet to be fully explored.