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Design and Implementation of service-oriented architectures imposes a huge number of research questions from the fields of software engineering, system analysis and modeling, adaptability, and application integration. Component orientation and web services are two approaches for design and realization of complex web-based system. Both approaches allow for dynamic application adaptation as well as integration of enterprise application. Commonly used technologies, such as J2EE and .NET, form de facto standards for the realization of complex distributed systems. Evolution of component systems has lead to web services and service-based architectures. This has been manifested in a multitude of industry standards and initiatives such as XML, WSDL UDDI, SOAP, etc. All these achievements lead to a new and promising paradigm in IT systems engineering which proposes to design complex software solutions as collaboration of contractually defined software services. Service-Oriented Systems Engineering represents a symbiosis of best practices in object-orientation, component-based development, distributed computing, and business process management. It provides integration of business and IT concerns. The annual Ph.D. Retreat of the Research School provides each member the opportunity to present his/her current state of their research and to give an outline of a prospective Ph.D. thesis. Due to the interdisciplinary structure of the Research Scholl, this technical report covers a wide range of research topics. These include but are not limited to: Self-Adaptive Service-Oriented Systems, Operating System Support for Service-Oriented Systems, Architecture and Modeling of Service-Oriented Systems, Adaptive Process Management, Services Composition and Workflow Planning, Security Engineering of Service-Based IT Systems, Quantitative Analysis and Optimization of Service-Oriented Systems, Service-Oriented Systems in 3D Computer Graphics, as well as Service-Oriented Geoinformatics. / Der Entwurf und die Realisierung dienstbasierender Architekturen wirft eine Vielzahl von Forschungsfragestellungen aus den Gebieten der Softwaretechnik, der Systemmodellierung und -analyse, sowie der Adaptierbarkeit und Integration von Applikationen auf. Komponentenorientierung und WebServices sind zwei Ansätze für den effizienten Entwurf und die Realisierung komplexer Web-basierender Systeme. Sie ermöglichen die Reaktion auf wechselnde Anforderungen ebenso, wie die Integration großer komplexer Softwaresysteme. Heute übliche Technologien, wie J2EE und .NET, sind de facto Standards für die Entwicklung großer verteilter Systeme. Die Evolution solcher Komponentensysteme führt über WebServices zu dienstbasierenden Architekturen. Dies manifestiert sich in einer Vielzahl von Industriestandards und Initiativen wie XML, WSDL, UDDI, SOAP. All diese Schritte führen letztlich zu einem neuen, Zielversprechenden Paradigma für IT Systeme, nach dem komplexe Softwarelösungen durchdie Integration vertraglich vereinbarter Software-Dienste aufgebaut werden sollen. „Service-Oriented Systems Engineering“ repräsentiert die Symbiose bewährter Praktiken aus den Gebieten der Objektorientierung, der Komponentenprogrammierung, des verteilten Rechnen sowie der Geschäftsprozesse und berücksichtigt auch die Integration von Geschäftsanliegen und Informationstechnologien. Die Klausurtagung des Forschungskollegs „Service-oriented Systems Engineering“ findet einmal jährlich statt und bietet allen Kollegiaten die Möglichkeit den Stand ihrer aktuellen Forschung darzulegen. Bedingt durch die Querschnittstruktur des Kollegs deckt dieser Bericht ein große Bandbreite aktueller Forschungsthemen ab. Dazu zählen unter anderem Self-Adaptive Service-Oriented Systems, Operating System Support for Service-Oriented Systems, Architecture and Modeling of Service-Oriented Systems, Adaptive Process Management, Services Composition and Workflow Planning, Security Engineering of Service-Based IT Systems, Quantitative Analysis and Optimization of Service-Oriented Systems, Service-Oriented Systems in 3D Computer Graphics sowie Service-Oriented Geoinformatics.

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Design and Implementation of service-oriented architectures imposes a huge number of research questions from the fields of software engineering, system analysis and modeling, adaptability, and application integration. Component orientation and web services are two approaches for design and realization of complex web-based system. Both approaches allow for dynamic application adaptation as well as integration of enterprise application. Commonly used technologies, such as J2EE and .NET, form de facto standards for the realization of complex distributed systems. Evolution of component systems has lead to web services and service-based architectures. This has been manifested in a multitude of industry standards and initiatives such as XML, WSDL UDDI, SOAP, etc. All these achievements lead to a new and promising paradigm in IT systems engineering which proposes to design complex software solutions as collaboration of contractually defined software services. Service-Oriented Systems Engineering represents a symbiosis of best practices in object-orientation, component-based development, distributed computing, and business process management. It provides integration of business and IT concerns. The annual Ph.D. Retreat of the Research School provides each member the opportunity to present his/her current state of their research and to give an outline of a prospective Ph.D. thesis. Due to the interdisciplinary structure of the Research Scholl, this technical report covers a wide range of research topics. These include but are not limited to: Self-Adaptive Service-Oriented Systems, Operating System Support for Service-Oriented Systems, Architecture and Modeling of Service-Oriented Systems, Adaptive Process Management, Services Composition and Workflow Planning, Security Engineering of Service-Based IT Systems, Quantitative Analysis and Optimization of Service-Oriented Systems, Service-Oriented Systems in 3D Computer Graphics sowie Service-Oriented Geoinformatics. / Der Entwurf und die Realisierung dienstbasierender Architekturen wirft eine Vielzahl von Forschungsfragestellungen aus den Gebieten der Softwaretechnik, der Systemmodellierung und -analyse, sowie der Adaptierbarkeit und Integration von Applikationen auf. Komponentenorientierung und WebServices sind zwei Ansätze für den effizienten Entwurf und die Realisierung komplexer Web-basierender Systeme. Sie ermöglichen die Reaktion auf wechselnde Anforderungen ebenso, wie die Integration großer komplexer Softwaresysteme. Heute übliche Technologien, wie J2EE und .NET, sind de facto Standards für die Entwicklung großer verteilter Systeme. Die Evolution solcher Komponentensysteme führt über WebServices zu dienstbasierenden Architekturen. Dies manifestiert sich in einer Vielzahl von Industriestandards und Initiativen wie XML, WSDL, UDDI, SOAP. All diese Schritte führen letztlich zu einem neuen, vielversprechenden Paradigma für IT Systeme, nach dem komplexe Softwarelösungen durch die Integration vertraglich vereinbarter Software-Dienste aufgebaut werden sollen. "Service-Oriented Systems Engineering" repräsentiert die Symbiose bewährter Praktiken aus den Gebieten der Objektorientierung, der Komponentenprogrammierung, des verteilten Rechnen sowie der Geschäftsprozesse und berücksichtigt auch die Integration von Geschäftsanliegen und Informationstechnologien. Die Klausurtagung des Forschungskollegs "Service-oriented Systems Engineering" findet einmal jährlich statt und bietet allen Kollegiaten die Möglichkeit den Stand ihrer aktuellen Forschung darzulegen. Bedingt durch die Querschnittstruktur des Kollegs deckt dieser Bericht ein große Bandbreite aktueller Forschungsthemen ab. Dazu zählen unter anderem Self-Adaptive Service-Oriented Systems, Operating System Support for Service-Oriented Systems, Architecture and Modeling of Service-Oriented Systems, Adaptive Process Management, Services Composition and Workflow Planning, Security Engineering of Service-Based IT Systems, Quantitative Analysis and Optimization of Service-Oriented Systems, Service-Oriented Systems in 3D Computer Graphics sowie Service-Oriented Geoinformatics.

Efficient organization requires rigorous and systematic information management, which encompasses information processing and decision making. Within the efforts in management science and informatics invested towards advancing the knowledge on, and providing assistance to decision making, this thesis focuses on the conceptualizations and techniques intended to facilitate the identification, evaluation, and selection of decisions during the earliest stages of information systems engineering, whereby the systems of interest are deployed to partly or fully automate various organizational processes, including information processing ones. The overall motivating problem that drove to, and that unites the various contributions presented in this thesis is how to better inform decision making and guide it towards decisions that will increase the quality (as evaluated both by the engineer and the stakeholders) of the information system being engineered. Topics in two key related areas are therefore addressed. First, boundedly rational individuals cannot take engineering decisions by accounting for all information that may be, or actually is available to them. As their information processing abilities are limited and their perception biased, it is necessary to filter the available information to a manageable level, and to bring it to a format that facilitates the rigorous reasoning invested in decision making. Second, it is necessary to provide guidance on how to use the given information in decision making. The first part of this thesis therefore focuses on conceptualizations that facilitate the identification of relevant information and its organization for subsequent analysis, all in the aim of achieving high quality of the system being engineered. In particular, Part I discusses, shows deficiencies, and accordingly revises the conceptual foundations of requirements engineering, a field of information systems engineering that focuses on the identification and analysis of requirements communicated by the stakeholders to the engineer of the system. The novelty of the suggested revision lies primarily in (i) the separation between functional and nonfunctional (i.e., quality) requirements grounded in a foundational ontology, (ii) the introduction of stakeholders' communicated attitudes as important sources of information for the evaluation of alternative requirements engineering decisions, (iii) the reformulation of the so-called ``requirements problem' -- which precisely defines when the requirements engineering effort is successfully completed -- to account for attitudes and nonfunctional requirements, and (iv) the recognition of the importance of defeasible reasoning in the search for a solution to the requirements problem. Acknowledging the importance of defeasible reasoning leads -- in Part II -- to the study of how defeasible reasoning can be incorporated into established decision making processes involved in the identification and analysis of requirements. Novelty in Part II lies mainly in (i) the use of argumentation and justification processes in the modeling and analysis of requirements, (ii) the combined use of design rationale approaches with argumentation and justification, (iii) the recognition that the clarity of arguments is variable (due to ambiguity, vagueness, synonymy, and overgenerality of information going into premises and conclusions in arguments), (iv) the definition of a number of techniques for the detection of unclear information and its clarification, and (v) the use of ``clarity' as a criterion for the discrimination among arguments. Part III shows how the conceptualizations and techniques introduced in Parts I and II are applied within and are relevant to the engineering of information systems, including those that rely on heterogenous and distributed components, as in service-oriented and agent-oriented computing.

During the past decade service-orientation has become a popular design paradigm, offering an approach in which services are the functional building blocks. Services are self-contained units of composition, built to be invoked, composed, and destroyed on (user) demand. Service-oriented systems (SOS) are a collection of services that are developed based on several design principles such as: (i) loose coupling between services (e.g., inter-service communication can involve either simple data passing or two or more connected services coordinating some activity) that allows services to be independent, yet highly interoperable when required; (ii) service abstraction, which emphasizes the need to hide as many implementation details as possible, yet still exposing functional and extra-functional capabilities that can be offered to service users; (iii) service reusability provided by the existing services in a rapid and flexible development process; (iv) service composability as one of the main assets of SOS that provide a design platform for services to be composed and decomposed, etc. One of the main concerns in such systems is ensuring service quality per se, but also guaranteeing the quality of newly composed services. To accomplish the above, we consider two system perspectives: the developer's and the user's view, respectively. In the former, one can be assumed to have access to the internal service representation: functionality, enabled actions, resource usage, and interactions with other services. In the second, one has information primarily on the service interface and exposed capabilities (attributes/features). Means of checking that services and service compositions meet the expected requirements, the so-called correctness issue, can enable optimization and possibility to guarantee a satisfactory level of a service composition quality. In order to accomplish exhaustive correctness checks of design-time SOS, we employ model-checking as the main formal verification technique, which eventually provides necessary information about quality-of-service (QoS), already at early stages of system development. ~As opposed to the traditional approach of software system construction, in SOS the same service may be offered at various prices, QoS, and other conditions, depending on the user needs. In such a setting, the interaction between involved parties requires the negotiation of what is possible at request time, aiming at meeting needs on demand. The service negotiation process often proceeds with timing, price, and resource constraints, under which users and providers exchange information on their respective goals, until reaching a consensus. Hence, a mathematically driven technique to analyze a priori various ways to achieve such goals is beneficial for understanding what and how can particular goals be achieved. This thesis presents the research that we have been carrying out over the past few years, which resulted in developing methods and tools for the specification, modeling, and formal analysis of services and service compositions in SOS. The contributions of the thesis consist of: (i)constructs for the formal description of services and service compositions using the resource-aware timed behavioral language called REMES; (ii) deductive and algorithmic approaches for checking correctness of services and service compositions;(iii) a model of service negotiation that includes different negotiation strategies, formally analyzed against timing and resource constraints; (iv) a tool-chain (REMES SOS IDE) that provides an editor and verification support (by integration with the UPPAAL model-checker) to REMES-based service-oriented designs;(v) a relevant case-study by which we exercise the applicability of our framework.The presented work has also been applied on other smaller examples presented in the published papers. / Under det senaste årtiondet har ett tjänstorienterat paradigm blivit allt-mer populärt i utvecklingen av datorsystem. I detta paradigm utgör så kallade tjänster den minsta funktionella systemenheten. Dessa tjänster är konstruerade så att de kan skapas, användas, sammansättas och avslutas separat. De ska vara oberoende av varandra samtidigt som de ska kunna fungera effektivt tillsammans och i samarbete med andra system när så behövs. Vidare ska tjänsterna dölja sina interna implementa-tionsdetaljer i så stor grad som möjligt, samtidigt som deras fulla funktionalitet ska exponeras för systemdesignern. Tjänsterna ska också på ett enkelt sätt kunna återanvändas och sammansättas i en snabb och flexibel utvecklingsprocess.En av de viktigaste aspekterna i tjänsteorienterade datorsystem är att kunna säkerställa systemens kvalitet. För att åstadkomma detta ärdet viktigt att få en djupare insikt om tjänstens interna funktionalitet, i termer av möjliga operationer, resursinformation, samt tänkbar inter-aktion med andra tjänster. Detta är speciellt viktigt när utvecklaren har möjlighet att välja mellan två funktionellt likvärda tjänster somär olika med avseende på andra egenskaper, såsom responstid eller andra resurskrav. I detta sammanhang kan en matematisk beskrivning av en tjänsts beteende ge ökad förståelse av tjänstemodellen, samt hjälpa användaren att koppla ihop tjänster på ett korrekt sätt. En matematisk beskrivning öppnar också upp för ett sätt att matematiskt resonera kring tjänster. Metoder för att kontrollera att komponerade tjänstermöter ställda resurskrav möjliggör också resursoptimering av tjänster samt verifiering av ställda kvalitetskrav.I denna avhandling presenteras forskning som har bedrivits under de senaste åren. Forskningen har resulterat i metoder och verktyg föratt specificera, modellera och formellt analysera tjänster och sammansättning av tjänster. Arbetet i avhandlingen består av (i) en formell definition av tjänster och sammansättning av tjänster med hjälp avett resursmedvetet formellt specifikationsspråk kallat Remes; (ii) två metoder för att analysera tjänster och kontrollera korrektheten i sammansättning av tjänster, både deduktivt och algoritmiskt; (iii) en modell av förhandlingsprocessen vid sammansättning av tjänster som inkluderar olika förhandlingsstrategier; (iv) ett antal verktyg som stödjer dessa metoder. Metoderna har använts i ett antal fallstudier som är presenterade i de publicerade artiklarna. / Contesse

Doctor of Philosophy / School of Family Studies and Human Services / Jared R. Anderson / Addiction to mood-altering substances i.e., drugs and alcohol is a public health concern impacting society in many contexts (e.g., employment, financial costs, family welfare, healthcare, and criminal activity). As a result of the substantial personal and societal costs associated with substance abuse, significant federal dollars have been spent on addiction recovery services in an attempt to ameliorate the negative impacts of these disorders. Like many chronic diseases, relapse (40-60%; National Institute on Drug Abuse, 2012) and dropout (23-50%) rates for clients in drug and alcohol outpatient treatment tend to be high (McHugh et al., 2013; Santonja-Gomez et al., 2010; Evans, Li, and Hser 2009; Stark, 1992). Over time, it has become clear that a single course of treatment is simply not enough to meet the needs of a person in recovery from alcohol and/or other drug abuse. The field of addiction treatment and recovery has been dominated by an acute-care model of treatment. A new model, recovery-oriented systems of care (ROSC), defined as “networks of organizations, agencies, and community members that coordinate a wide spectrum of services to prevent, intervene in, and treat substance use problems and disorders” (Sheedy & Whitter, 2013, p. 227), has been endorsed by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT). As communities begin to implement ROSC it is imperative to understand the barriers to transitioning out of the traditional, acute-care model. Findings from in-depth qualitative interviews revealed that both treatment and probation professionals described more alignment with the ROSC model than the acute-care model. For treatment professionals, this alignment was stronger at an individual level and for probation professionals it was stronger at the system level. For both professional groups, the system-level barriers to moving toward a ROSC model were much greater than any individual-level barriers. Facilitators were found evenly split for the most part between individual and system level codes. For communities making movement toward the ROSC model, the systems of treatment and probation have great potential at the individual level for ROSC alignment and have available facilitators for overcoming system-level barriers in place. Although the acute-care model served a purpose at one time, it is now time for the ROSC model to be implemented as a comprehensive response to addiction and needs in recovery.