ASG - Techniques of Adaptivity

The introduction of service-orientation leads to significant improvements regarding flexibility in the choice of business partners and IT-systems. This requires an increased adaptability of enterprise software landscapes as the environment is more dynamic than the ones in traditional approaches. In this paper we present different types of adaptation scenarios for service compositions and their implementation in a service provision platform. Based on experiences from the Adaptive Services Grid (ASG) project, we show how dynamic adaptation strategies are able to support an automated selection, composition and binding of services during run-time