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International Journal of Services, Economics and Management

 

Special Issue on: "Service-Oriented Engineering"

Guest Editor: Dr. Antonia Stefani, University of Patras, Greece

The continuous expansion of the Internet and its relating technologies has created new opportunities for the services sector: traditional monolithic approaches are giving way to service-oriented architectures. Services are expected to facilitate the change of the software industry into a service industry. The term ‘service-oriented engineering’ reflects this new reality.

Service-orientation is a cross-disciplinary computing paradigm that introduces a new, flexible way software applications are designed, architected, delivered and consumed. The advent of this new computing paradigm facilitates business collaboration and application integration on a global scale. The impact of service–oriented computing (SOC) is expected to be significant on many disciplines and especially on Internet-based information systems. Services, the building blocks of SOC, are a vision of loosely coupled interaction between components, programs, and applications. They have emerged as a response to a fundamental shift in enterprise business. However, their adoption on a wider scale relies on the definition of the appropriate standards, frameworks and policies. The next generation of web services, semantic web services, are metadata-enabled and ontologically principled. This new type of services is self-described and amenable to automated discovery, composition and invocation. Automation is made possible by augmenting classic web services with rich formal descriptions of their capabilities.

SOC is seen as the enabling technology for many future applications areas and especially e-commerce. The challenges arising from the introduction of SOC comprise both foundational and applied research questions and thus a synergy is required from researchers from many disciplines. This special issue aims to assess the impact of SOC on the services industry by addressing technical and managerial challenges. The scope covers the entire spectrum of SOC from theoretical and foundational results to empirical evaluations as well as practical and industrial experiences addressing the academic and commercial audiences from the software engineering and information systems disciplines.

Subject Coverage
Suitable topics include but are not limited to:

• Service oriented architectures
• Adoption of SOC by organisations
• Software quality and SOC
• Software as a service
• The economy of SOC
• SOC and quality of service

Notes for Prospective Authors

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere

All papers are refereed through a peer review process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Author Guidelines page

Important Dates

Submissions due: 31 July 2009

Revisions to authors: 18 October 2009

Revised manuscripts: 6 November 2009

Final acceptance: 16 November 2009