Service-oriented architectures (SOA) built on Web services were a first attempt to streamline and automate business processes in order to increase productivity but the utopian promise of uniform service interface standards, metadata, and universal service registries, in the form of the SOAP, WSDL and UDDI standards has proven elusive. Furthermore, the RPC-oriented model of those traditional Web...

Current research in service-oriented computing (SoC) is mainly about technology standards for SoC and the design of software components that implement these standards. In this paper we investigate the problem of requirements engineering (RE) for SoC. We propose a framework for goaloriented RE for e-services that identifies patterns in service provisioning and shows how to compose business model...

Configurable business software solutions are increasingly being implemented based on service oriented architectures (SOA). Hereunto model driven approaches for the definition and implementation of such software systems are indispensable. In addition reference models with pre-defined business processes can accelerate decisively the implementation of standard software solutions. In this paper we ...

Technical interoperability in “Industrie 4.0” scenarios is currently being achieved by standards such as OPC UA. Such standards allow operators to use a common communication interface for heterogeneous production devices. However, production flexibility (e.g. selfconfiguration or dynamic self-adaptation) can only be achieved if system structure and engineering processes change. At the moment, t...

Bluetooth and IEEE 802.11 are two communication protocol standards which define a physical layer and a MAC layer for wireless communications within a short range (from a few meters up to a hundred meters) with low power consumption (from less than 1 mW up to a hundred mW). Bluetooth is oriented to connecting close devices, serving as a substitute for cables, while IEEE 802.11 is oriented toward...

Many different groups are engaged in developing standards that use object concepts. These include: • application-specific standards groups, e.g. — CAD Framework Initiative (electrical CAD) — PDES/STEP (mechanical CAD) — PCTE (CASE) — OSI/NMF (telephony; network management) — ANSI X3H6 (CASE) — ANSI X3H4 (IRDS) • groups working on generic object standards — ISO ODP, ANSI X3T3 (Open Distributed P...

Web services (WS) — the most prominent technology for realizing service oriented architectures — are broadly pushed by vendors and are likely to be deployed in dependability demanding areas such as air traffic control, health care, or transportation in the near future. However, although a plethora of WS standards exists, only few of them address dependability, namely specifications for transact...

As the Service-oriented architecture paradigm has become ever more popular, different standardization efforts have been proposed by various consortia to enable interaction among heterogeneous environments through this paradigm. This chapter will overview the most prevalent of these SOA Efforts. It will first show how technical services can be described, how they can interact with each other and...