Service-Oriented Software System Engineering Challenges and Practices

Current IT developments like component-based development and Web services have emerged as effective ways of building complex enterprise-scale information systems and providing enterprise application integration. To aid this process, platforms such as .NET and WebSphere have become standards in web-based systems development. However, there are still a lot of issues that need to be addressed before service-oriented software engineering (SOSE) becomes a prominent and widely accepted paradigm for enterprise information systems development and integration. Service-Oriented Software System Engineering: Challenges and Practices provides a comprehensive view of SOSE through a number of different perspectives. Some of those perspectives include: service-based concepts, modeling and documentation, service discovery and composition, service-oriented architecture, model-driven development of service-oriented applications, service security and service-orientation in mobile settings. It provides readers with an in-depth knowledge of the main challenges and practices in the exciting, new world of service-oriented software engineering. Addressing both technical and organizational aspects of this new field, this book offers a balance making it valuable to a variety of readers, including IT architects, developers, managers, and analysts.

Zoran Stojanovic is a researcher at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. His research interests are in the areas of Component-Based Development, Web Services, System Modeling and Architecture, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Location-Based Services. He received his Graduate Engineering degree and Master of Philosophy degree in Computer Science and GIS from the Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Nis (Yugoslavia), in 1993 and 1998 respectively. He has been working since 1993 as a researcher and teacher in the fields of Computer Science, Software and System Engineering, first with the University of Nis (Yugoslavia) and after February 2000 with the Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands). During this period he has been an author of a number of publications.

Dr. Ajantha Dahanayake is an Associate Professor in the Department of Information and Communication Technology at the faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. She previously served as an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Systems and Algorithms at the Faculty of Information Technology and Systems. She received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Leiden and Ph.D. in Information Systems from Delft University of Technology. She had served in a number of Dutch research and academic institutions. Her research interests are distributed web-enabled systems, CASE, Methodology Engineering, Component Based Development and M-business. She is the research director of the research program Building Blocks for Telematics Applications Development and Evaluation (BETADE).