Designing a Service Composition Framework to Support Multi Actor Networks

Feenstra, R. W., Janssen, M., and Wagenaar, R.W.

Mobile technologies provide opportunities to create innovative applications to improve public safety. New mobile services can be composed by reusing existing ones provided by various actors. The realization requires the cooperation between independent public organizations having their own and sometimes even opposing objectives. As a result decisions about composition requires negotiation and involvement of decision-makers from various organizations. A composition framework is necessary to support decisions regarding the selection of services within a multi-actor setting. In this paper we derive requirements and develop a composition framework based on a process-driven approach.

Keywords: Service composition, location based services design, decision-making, case study, public safety.