Today, the Web is increasingly used as a platform for distributed
services, which transcend organizational boundaries to form
federated applications. Consequently, there is a growing interest
in the architectural aspect of Web-based systems, i.e. the
composition of the overall solution into individual Web
applications and Web services from different parties. The design
and evolution of federated systems calls for models that give an
overview of the structural as well as trust-specific composition
and reflect the technical details of the various accesses. We
introduce the WebComposition Architecture Model (WAM) as an
overall modeling approach tailored to aspects of highly
distributed systems with federation as an integral factor.
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Johannes Meinecke, Martin Gaedke, Frederic Majer, Alexander Brändle: Capturing the Essentials of Federated Systems; Proceedings of the Fifteenth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Edinburgh, UK, 23-26 May, 2006