Service-oriented architectures are the upcoming business standard for realizing enterprise information systems, thus creating a need for analysis and design methods that are truly service-oriented. Most research on this topic so far takes a software engineering perspective. For a proper alignment between business and IT, a service perspective at the business level is needed as well. In this pap...

An approach for constructing an Enterprise Service Bus based Service Oriented Architecture for individual clouds and then considering workflows where services from multiple clouds are used is formulated and a systematic methodology for performance evaluation of the architecture is presented. The participation in this environment is achieved by allowing the SOA to dynamically federate with servi...

The emerging paradigm of Web services opens a new way of engineering enterprise Web applications via rapidly developing and deploying Web applications, by composing independently published Web service components to conduct new business transactions. However, how to formally validate and reason about the properties of an enterprise system composed of Web service components remains a challenge. T...

The construction of enterprise information is facing more or less heterogeneous system integration problems in the deepening process. On the basis of analyzing the advantages of service oriented architecture (SOA) and Web service technology in realizing heterogeneous system integration, a fast and flexible enterprise information system integration scheme based on combining SOA and Web service t...

Service-oriented paradigm is emerging as a promising solution to handle enterprise information systems (IS) complexity, interoperability, and evolution issues. However, the shift from a conventional IS architecture to a service-oriented one is not an easy task. Various approaches have been proposed in the literature and most of them deal with either business strategic service design or a techni...

Scientific experiments are supported by activities that create, use, communicate and distribute information whose organizational dynamics is similar to processes performed by distributed cooperative enterprise units. On this premise, the aim of this paper is to apply existing enterprise models and processes for designing cooperative scientific experiments. The presented approach assumes the Ser...

Enterprise Architects and developers constantly have to deal with changing and evolving business requirements. Organizations have to be more dynamic in their collaboration and competition efforts to remain viable. To combat these increasing pressures on the IT resources enterprises are moving towards the paradigm of service orientation. This allows for businesses to leverage their existing inve...

The discontent over the limited capability of Web services to reflect the organization’s business model, and efficiently adhere to business strategies and requirements, caused a shift in business thinking. As a result, the enterprise has been recognizing the need for a more generalized model for services. This trend introduced a more abstracted notion of a service: a “meta-service” that can bet...

An understanding by support organisations of the key factors enabling successful enterprise after-sales customer support provision when using Web-based Selfservice Systems (WSSs) is essential to making improvements in such systems. This paper reports key stakeholder-oriented findings from an interpretive study of critical success factors (CSFs) for the transfer of after-sales support-oriented k...

Specifying service-oriented system, which is a new type of Enterprise Information System, is critical with the rapid development of Web Services. For the purpose, this paper presents an approach to model ServiceOriented Architecture (SOA). We do not exclude the traditional opinions of software architecture description as the current specification approaches; on the contrary, some similar concep...