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The service oriented model is the emerging approach adopted by Web and Grid services where parties act as service requestors and service providers. A meaningful aspect to consider consists in improving machine-to-machine interaction by enabling an automatic evaluation and selection of available services with respect to a set of expectations. In this context, it can be useful to raise the modeling abstraction level by considering the metamodeling theory principles by which to enhance the modeling constructs. The goal of this paper is to present a method for the rigorous representation and selection of service characteristics in the area of Grid computing. Such a method relies on the measurement theory and the Logic Scoring of Preferences (LSP). Moreover, relying on the metamodeling theory provided by the OMG Model Driven Architecture (MDA), a prototype tool for mapping MOF based Grid services metamodels in domain specific textual languages is presented.
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Andreozzi, S., Ciancarini, P., Montesi, D., Moretti, R. (2004). Towards a Metamodeling Based Method for Representing and Selecting Grid Services. In: Jeckle, M., Kowalczyk, R., Braun, P. (eds) Grid Services Engineering and Management. GSEM 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3270. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30190-5_6
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