An infrastructure for the management of dynamic service networks

Infrastructures for creating and deploying dynamically cooperating distributed services have become popular. An area that these infrastructures address only insufficiently is the administration of services and their relationships. This article takes an in-depth look at some management topics that are particularly important in a dynamic service environment: service life cycle and service dependencies. It states requirements for these areas that a management system has to fulfill. The article also describes MADYSON (Management Architecture for Dynamic Service-Oriented Networks), a management infrastructure that was developed based on these requirements.