Service-oriented architectures are increasingly used in the context of business processes, but the proven practices for the integration of services and processes are not well explained so far. For the integration of services and processes many different concerns, ranging from technical to architectural to businessrelated concerns, must be considered, and combinations of these concerns that are ...

The complexity and openness of today’s modern societies result in the threat of serious cascading effects when natural disasters or terrorist attacks strike. Thus, there is a high demand for state of the art IT support in the field of emergency management systems. In this paper, we identify the core requirements of future emergency management systems and present a new generation of modular, ser...

Service-orientated architecture is a very popular approach for building large scale, modular and distributed systems as well as achieving integration in heterogeneous environments. Its acceptance in the world of business is growing over time, mainly in technologically advanced countries, but there are still research gaps regarding SOA adoption and diffusion process. Interesting research questio...

As the increasing development of application technology and infrastructure, many kinds of application can be wrapped to standard web service, and tasks can be partitioned and mapped to service instances according to web service architecture. Service-oriented architecture is an approach to define integration architectures based on the concept of a service. We believe service-oriented application...

The focus of this paper is to devise a service-oriented architecture for multi-agents system (called SAM), to reach a wide adoption and routine use of agents, web services, and semantic web technologies. In order to better integrate agents, web applications and information sources in an open and distributed environment such as the Internet, a service matchmaker called middle agent is responsibl...

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...

With the emergence of service-oriented economy, distributed systems and cloud computing, thus the development of service oriented architecture and the adoption open standards become a mean to assure interoperability. Privacy could play a key role for digital identity protection and security. We suggest an implementation framework, Privacy-as-a-Set-ofServices (PaaSS) framework, which could help ...

Nowadays, a major paradigm of large scale distributed processing is service-oriented computing (or SOA, Service Oriented Architecture). To improve availability and reliability of SOA based systems and applications, a Reliability Service (providing external support of web services recovery) is proposed.