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The Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) [1] is a state-of-the-art service composition environment for the Windows-based .NET 3.5 platform. WF is well integrated in development tools such as Visual Studio and provides a relatively simple approach to Web service composition. However, WF compositions are by nature rather static. Without reengineering it is not possible to adapt service compositions at runtime.

For the conceptually similar composition language WS-BPEL some research approaches exist which combine aspect-oriented programming with BPEL [2,3] to increase the flexibility of compositions.

This master's thesis should investigate a similar approach for WF, taking into account the characteristics and special features of WF. The outcome of the thesis is a prototype implementation which allows for weaving advises into WFs at composition and instance level, including tools necessary for the development of aspects.

If you are interested in this topic please contact Philipp Leitner
(leitner@infosys.tuwien.ac.at or +43-1-58801-18413) directly.


[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Workflow_Foundation
[2] http://www.springerlink.com/content/m732q7731226450l/
[3] http://www.springerlink.com/content/g043q7770126x250/