Dynamic Composition of Cross-Organizational Features in Distributed Software Systems.

Companies offering software services to external customer organizations must ensure that the non-functional requirements of all these customer organizations are satisfied. However, in such a cross-organizational context where services are provided and consumed by different organizations, the implementation of features, for example security, is scattered across the services of the different organizations and cannot be condensed into a single module that is applicable to multiple services. In this paper we present an aspect-based coordination architecture for dynamic composition of cross-organizational features in distributed software systems such as systems of systems or service supply chains. The underlying approach of this architecture is to specify the features at a higher level that abstracts the internal mechanism of the organizations involved. A coordination middleware dynamically integrates the appropriate features into the service composition, driven by metadata-based user preferences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]