%0 Journal Article
%T Accountability in Enterprise Mashup Services
%A Joe Zou
%A Chris Pavlovski
%J Advances in Software Engineering
%D 2013
%I Hindawi Publishing Corporation
%R 10.1155/2013/298037
%X As a result of the proliferation of Web 2.0 style web sites, the practice of mashup services has become increasingly popular in the web development community. While mashup services bring flexibility and speed in delivering new valuable services to consumers, the issue of accountability associated with the mashup practice remains largely ignored by the industry. Furthermore, realizing the great benefits of mashup services, industry leaders are eagerly pushing these solutions into the enterprise arena. Although enterprise mashup services hold great promise in delivering a flexible SOA solution in a business context, the lack of accountability in current mashup solutions may render this ineffective in the enterprise environment. This paper defines accountability for mashup services, analyses the underlying issues in practice, and finally proposes a framework and ontology to model accountability. This model may then be used to develop effective accountability solutions for mashup environments. Compared to the traditional method of using QoS or SLA monitoring to address accountability requirements, our approach addresses more fundamental aspects of accountability specification to facilitate machine interpretability and therefore enabling automation in monitoring. 1. Introduction The recent and rapid expansion of Web 2.0 has considerably placed pressure upon industry to institutionalize new technologies and conform to emerging standards. While agreement on the scope of the term Web 2.0 does vary, O¡¯Reilly provides a commonly accepted definition, noting this to include a range of enhanced services including web services, wikis, blogging, BitTorrents, and syndication [1]. The rapid growth of Web 2.0 has also introduced a number of new design patterns and architectural styles in web development. One of the notable techniques involves mashing up information from existing services to deliver new value-added services. This process effectively involves the drawing of content from several sources to create a new content or service. The resulting web page is then referred to as a mashup of the existing content. While mashup services bring flexibility and speed in delivering new valuable services to consumers, the legal implications of using this technology are significant. Researchers in law conclude that the development of mashup services is fraught with potential legal liabilities that require careful consideration [2]. The issue of accountability associated with the mashup practice remains largely ignored by the industry. Current formal practices suggest that the
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