Migrating Legacy Applications: Challenges in Service Oriented Architecture and Cloud Computing Environments

As the future of software development in a global environment continues to be influenced by the areas of service oriented architecture (SOA) and cloud computing, many legacy applications will need to migrate these environments to take advantage of the benefits offered by the service environment. Migrating Legacy Applications: Challenges in Service Oriented Architecture and Cloud Computing Environments presents a closer look at the partnership between service oriented architecture and cloud computing environments while analyzing potential solutions to challenges related to the migration of legacy applications. This reference is essential for students and university scholars alike.

Anca Daniela Ionita is Professor at University Politehnica of Bucharest, Automatic Control and Computers Faculty, where she has worked since 1990, soon after obtaining her MSc. Degree. In 1994 she obtained a Ph.D. degree in ""Automated Systems"", at the same university. Between 2004 and 2006 Ms Ionita was researcher at University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, with a Marie Curie Individually-Driven Fellowship. Then, she returned to Romania as professor at University Politehnica of Bucharest, and collaborator of SIVECO Romania, playing major roles in national and European research projects. She teaches Software Engineering and Model Driven Engineering, in Romanian, English and French, and is responsible of the educational Work Package in a Romanian strategic project that promotes service innovation through open and continuous education. She serves in several editorial advisory boards, programme and organization committees of international conferences and workshops. Her current research is focused on service engineering and management, business process modelling and model driven engineering.

Marin Litoiu is a Professor and the Director of Adaptive Systems Research Lab, at York University, Toronto, Canada. He holds doctoral degrees from University Politehnica of Bucharest and Carleton University of Ottawa. Prior to joining York, he was a Senior Research Staff Member with Centre for Advanced Studies, IBM Toronto Lab, where he led the research programs in software engineering, system management and autonomic computing. He was the Director of Research for Centre of Excellence for Research in Advanced Systems (CERAS) and Chair of the Board of Directors for Consortium for Software Engineering Research (CSER). Dr Litoiu current research interests include adaptive and autonomic systems, cloud computing and web technologies, performance modeling and evaluation and software engineering.

Grace Lewis is a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), in the Research, Technology and Systems Solutions (RTSS) program. She is part the deputy for the Advanced Mobile Systems (AMS) initiative and the technical lead for the Edge-Enabled Tactical Systems project. Her current interests and projects are in mobile computing, cloud computing and service-oriented architecture (SOA). Her latest publications include multiples reports and articles on these subjects and a book in the SEI Software Engineering Series. She is also a member of the technical faculty for the Master in Software Engineering program at CMU. Grace holds a B.Sc. in Systems Engineering and an Executive MBA from Icesi University in Cali, Colombia; and a Master in Software Engineering from CMU.