Mathieu Acher, Philippe Collet, Philippe Lahire, Johan Montagnat. Imaging Services on the Grid as a Product Line: Requirements and Architecture. In Steffen Thiel, Klaus Pohl, editors, Software Product Lines, 12th International Conference, SPLC 2008, Limerick, Ireland, September 8-12, 2008, Proceedings. Second Volume (Workshops). pages 137-142, Lero Int. Science Centre, University of Limerick, Ireland, 2008.
SOA is now the reference architecture for medical imaging processing on the grid. Imaging services must be composed in workflows to implement the processing chains, but the need to handle end-to-end qualities of service hampered both the provision of services and their composition. This paper analyses the variability of functional and non functional aspects of this domain and proposes a first architecture in which services are organized within a product line architecture and metamodels help in structuring necessary information.