Service composition for non-programmers: Prospects, problems, and design recommendations

Abdallah Namoun; Tobias Nestler; Antonella De Angeli

doi:10.1109/ECOWS.2010.17

Service composition for non-programmers: Prospects, problems, and design recommendations

Abdallah Namoun
, Tobias Nestler
, Antonella De Angeli

MSM Service Systems

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Abstract

Although Service Oriented Architecture technologies are becoming widespread, user research to support the exploitation and composition of services by non-programmers is still in its infancy. This paper presents three user studies conducted during the user-centered design of the ServFace Builder, a service composition tool for non-programmers. Results suggest that end users do not realize that services can be connected together and do not easily understand that information can flow between services. Further conceptual and usability problems of service composition for end users and some guidelines to overcome them are discussed © 2010 IEEE.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 8th IEEE European Conference on Web Services, ECOWS 2010\|Proc. - IEEE Eur. Conf. Web Serv., ECOWS
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
Pages	123-130
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Print)	9780769543109
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ECOWS.2010.17
Publication status	Published - 2010
Event	8th European Conference on Web Services, ECOWS 2010 - Ayia Napa Duration: 1 Jul 2010 → …

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Conference	8th European Conference on Web Services, ECOWS 2010
City	Ayia Napa
Period	1/07/10 → …

Keywords

Design recommendations
Lightweight service composition
Usability
User requirements

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Namoun, A, Nestler, T & De Angeli, A 2010, Service composition for non-programmers: Prospects, problems, and design recommendations. in Proceedings - 8th IEEE European Conference on Web Services, ECOWS 2010|Proc. - IEEE Eur. Conf. Web Serv., ECOWS. IEEE Computer Society , pp. 123-130, 8th European Conference on Web Services, ECOWS 2010, Ayia Napa, 1/07/10. https://doi.org/10.1109/ECOWS.2010.17

Service composition for non-programmers: Prospects, problems, and design recommendations. / Namoun, Abdallah; Nestler, Tobias; De Angeli, Antonella.
Proceedings - 8th IEEE European Conference on Web Services, ECOWS 2010|Proc. - IEEE Eur. Conf. Web Serv., ECOWS. IEEE Computer Society , 2010. p. 123-130.

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