Shape Project

In order to achieve the research objectives, the project is organized in one work package focusing on industrial use cases and validation, four technical work packages focusing research and development for extended SOA solutions, one standardization and dissemination work package, and finally one project management work package. Technical work packages are structured with the purpose of fostering the final integration of technical contributions amongst partners and keeping a tight relationship with the use case work package. The overall work package structure and the relationships ad dependencies between the work packages are represented below.

SHAPE Work Package Structure

1 – Industrial Use Cases : The objective of work package 1 is to define real industrial use case scenarios such that detailed requirements can be provided to workpackages 2, 3, 4 and 5, with these requirements ensuring that the research conducted throughout the project can deliver practical results.

2 – Model-driven Methodology and Architecture: The objective of work package 2 is to define a model based methodology for designing service based landscapes using UPMSHA and for managing services through their entire life cycle. Additional methods for modeling flexible and reusable processes and services will be provided along with with a methodology for checking compliance between business processes and business contracts.

3 – Metamodels and Languages: There are two major aims of work package 3, the first major goal is to create UML Profile and metamodel for Services (UMPS) through the OMG standardisation group, secondly this UML Profile and metamodel will be extended towards Semantically-enabled Heterogeneous service-oriented Architectures (UPMSHA) through the creation and development of metamodel extensions for UPMS (Agents, P2P, Semantic Web Services, Grid).

4 – Modeling Tools and Services: Work package 4 focuses on the tool support required to effectively use the UMPSHA and will create an extendable tookit based on the Eclipse framework containing tools for business requirements modeling and for each of the metamodel extensions to the UPMSHA. This work will reuse existing work in the Web Service Modeling Toolkit (WSMT).

5 – Model Transformations and Deployment: The primary focus of work package 5 is the creation of a framework for transforming models that will allow the transformation of the UPMSHA models to the underlying target platforms, e.g Web services, Peer 2 Peer, Agents, Grid services. This work package will also look at mechanism for transforming SOA extended ARIS models to the UPMSHA.

6 – Standardisation, Dissemination and Exploitation: The aim of work package 6 is to define and execute dissemination and exploitation activities to maximise the impact of the results of the SHAPE project. This work package is also responsible for ensuring that the appropriate standardisation takes place in the relevant standardisation bodies. Finally members of work package 6 will liaise and cooperate with other ICT projects under the WP2007/2008 Objective “Service and Software Architectures, Infrastructure and Engineering”.

7 – Project Management: This work package is responsible for ensuring that the project has an effective project management structure, ensuring compliance with project plans and that project activities meet appropriate quality levels, checking and validating the correct scheduling of tasks, and managing risk within the project.