May 23, 2006
SOA Systems Joins Program Committee for IEEE Modeling, Design, and Analysis Event
The mda4soa'06 "Modeling, Design, and Analysis for Service-oriented Architecture Workshop" by the IEEE is scheduled to take place on September 18, 2006 in Chicago. The event is co-located with the 2006 IEEE International Conferences on Services Computing (SCC 2006) and Web Services (ICWS 2006).
SOA Systems founder Thomas Erl was invited to join the event program committee to help choose candidates for participation. IT professionals from around the world will be meeting to discuss analysis and design techniques for SOA.
Below is the abstract:
A new paradigm – service-orientation – is currently emerging for distributed computing and e-business processing; it has evolved from object-oriented and component-based computing to enable building agile networks of collaborating business applications distributed within and across organizational boundaries. This new paradigm utilizes services (autonomous platform-independent computational elements that can be described, published, discovered and accessed over the Internet using standard protocols) as fundamental elements for developing applications/solutions; services will be important for customers and not the specific software or hardware component that is used to implement the services. In this context, services become the next level of abstraction in the process of creating systems that would enable automation of e-businesses. This paradigm shift is changing the way the computer software is developed and used (designed, architected, delivered, consumed, and analysed), and this way of reorganizing software applications and infrastructure into a set of interacting services is usually referred to as Service-oriented Architectures (SOA).
In recent years, various forms of service-oriented architectures have appeared; amongst them, Web services, Grid services, Semantic Web Services, and e-Services are the most important. Although they share some of the principles of service-oriented architectures, they differ in many other aspects, which is an undesirable situation in the context of service-oriented architectures. Since standard protocols are a basic principle of SOA, this undesirable situation is partly due also to the fact that there are currently no mature methodologies and techniques to support analysis for service-oriented architectures. Moreover, all these forms of service-oriented architectures have developed different conceptual models, resulting in different methodologies for modelling and designing service-oriented architectures.
In this context, this workshop aims to tackle the research problems (as well as practical experiences) around methods, concepts, models, languages and technology that enable computing in service-oriented environments. Of particular interest are the architectural, technical, and developmental foundations of service-oriented architectures, and showing how they combine synergistically to enable distributed computing on the scale required by today’s Internet-connected enterprise.
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The mda4soa'06 "Modeling, Design, and Analysis for Service-oriented Architecture Workshop" by the IEEE is scheduled to take place on September 18, 2006 in Chicago. The event is co-located with the 2006 IEEE International Conferences on Services Computing (SCC 2006) and Web Services (ICWS 2006).
