Table 1 Comparison of existing change management frameworks
From: Incremental stages of a semantic framework for automating the changes on long term composed services
Feature | Existing frameworks | Semantic change management framework | Reason/component contributing |
|---|---|---|---|
Memory usage | High | Low | Â |
Prior determination for implementing changes | No | Yes | Semantic parsing |
Automatic verification and validation | No | Yes | Finite state machine |
Probability to reach correct states | Low | High | Push down automata |
Professionals involved in enacting the changes | Developers | Analyst, developers | Semantic information from ontology |
Information provided in the ontology | Domain | Functionality of the services | Â |
Information about the relationship between the functionality of the services | No | Yes | Representing ontology in terms of functionality of the services |
Rule/policy level information about the services | No | Yes | Representing ontology in terms of functionality of the services |
Prior determination on the impact caused by the requested change | No | Yes | Change impact analyser component |
Capacity of the framework to provide reasons in case of failures | No | Yes | Semantic reasoner component |
Possibility to determine the exact position for successful implementation of change | No | Yes | Push down automata |