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Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) is a new computing paradigm that
utilizes services as the basic constructs to support the development
of rapid, low-cost and easy composition of distributed applications
even in heterogeneous environments. The promise of Service-Oriented
Computing is a world of cooperating services where application
components are assembled with little effort into a network of
services that can be loosely coupled to create flexible dynamic
business processes and agile applications that may span
organizations and computing platforms. The subject of
Service-Oriented Computing is vast and enormously complex, spanning
many concepts and technologies that find their origins in diverse
disciplines that are woven together in an intricate manner. In
addition, there is a need to merge technology with an understanding
of business processes and organizational structures, a combination
of recognizing an enterprise's pain points and the potential
solutions that can be applied to correct them. The material in
research spans an immense and diverse spectrum of literature, in
origin and in character. As a result research activities are very
fragmented. This necessitates that a broader vision and perspective
be established one that permeates and transforms the fundamental
requirements of complex applications that require the use of the
Service-Oriented Computing paradigm.
This paper provides a Service Oriented Computing Roadmap and places
on-going research activities and projects in the broader context of
this roadmap. This research roadmap launches four pivotal,
inherently related, research themes to Service-Oriented Computing:
service foundations, service composition, service management and
monitoring and service-oriented engineering.
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