Quality-Oriented Handling of Exceptions in Web-Service-Based Cooperative Processes

Web services are increasingly used to integrate heterogeneous and autonomous applications in cross-organizational cooperations. A key problem is to support a high execution quality of complex cooperative processes, e.g. in e-business or health care. One important aspect that has received little attention so far is the dynamic handling of exceptions during process execution. To address this problem, we propose a rule-based approach to automatically control and enforce quality constraints for web-service-based cooperative processes.