Handbook of Research on Service-Oriented Systems and Non-Functional Properties

"This book unites different approaches and methods used to describe, map, and use non-functional properties and service level agreements"--Provided by publisher.

Stephan Reiff-Marganiec is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Leicester, which he joined in 2003 as a lecturer. He worked in the computer industry in Germany and Luxembourg for several years. From 1998 to 2001 he was as a Research Assistant at the University of Glasgow, while at the same time reading for a PhD in Computing Science. The work performed at Glasgow investigated hybrid approaches to the feature interaction problem. From 2001 to 2003 Stephan was as a Research Fellow at the University of Stirling, investigating policies, emerging features and associated conflict resolution techniques. Stephan was responsible for organising the British Colloquium for Theoretical Computer Science in 2001 and again in 2004 and since 2004 has been Treasurer of BCTCS. He was also co-Chair of the 8th and 10th International Conference on Feature Interactions in Telecommunications and Software Systems, he was co-Chair of the second, third and fourth Young Researchers Workshop in Service Oriented Computing (YR-SOC 2007, 2008 and 2009) and is senior member of the steering committee for YR-SOC. Stephan was principal investigator of the project "Ad-Hoc Web Applications" funded by the Nuffield foundation and leader of workpackages and tasks in the EU funded projects Leg2Net, Sensoria and inContext focusing on automatic service adaption, context aware service selection, workflows and rule based service composition. Stephan has published in excess of 40 papers in international conferences and journals and has been a member of a large number of programme committees.

Marcel Tilly has received a Master's degree in physics at the Technical University of Dortmund. Since then he has worked for more than 10 years in the area of software development and engineering. During this time he worked in a variety of roles within the technical architecture teams of several projects on the development of large distributed software systems. His work was primarily focused on model-driven development and service-oriented architecture. In 2006 he joined the European Microsoft Innovation Center in Aachen as a Program Manager. In this role he is mainly focused on service-oriented computing, service compositions and event-stream processing. He was co-chairing the workshops (NFPSLA-SOC and NFPSLAM) about non-functional properties and service level agreements for service-oriented computing. He is co-author of a German book about web development and speaker at several conferences.