As organisations strive to improve their capabilities in the areas of Service Management and Service-oriented Architectures (SOA), SOA Governance is becoming an increasingly important success factor. However, the concept of SOA Governance is complex and not well-understood, and the adoption of an adequate SOA Governance approach in an organisation can be difficult. Tools that support SOA Govern...

SOA and web services are supposed to increase integration capabilities, stimulate interorganizational processes, and thereby improve coordination in distributed business networks. They also foster the idea of dynamic business networks with quick connect and disconnect relationships. While service-oriented architecture (SOA) concepts are increasingly adopted in practice, they are still mostly ap...

Primary organic aerosol (POA) and associated vapors can play an important role in determining the formation and properties of secondary organic aerosol (SOA). If SOA and POA are miscible, POA will significantly enhance SOA formation and some POA vapor will incorporate into SOA particles. When the two are not miscible, condensation of SOA on POA particles forms particles with complex morphology....

There are a significant number of companies investing in SOA initiatives, but only a small number are at the point of realizing a positive return on their investments. These organizations have embraced SOA as part of their core business strategies, yet they have also taken a pragmatic approach, knowing that a successful service-oriented architecture depends upon the quality of the architecture ...

Isoprene is globally the most ubiquitous nonmethane hydrocarbon. The biogenic emission is found in abundance and has a propensity for SOA formation in diverse climates. It is important to characterize isoprene SOA formation with varying reaction temperature. In this work, the effect of temperature on SOA formation, physical properties, and chemical nature is probed. Three experimental systems a...

[1] Inclusion of isoprene as a source of secondary organic aerosol (SOA) in a global model increases the global burden of SOA from all sources by more than a factor of two. The isoprene source substantially increases SOA concentrations in the free troposphere, because isoprene, and, more importantly, isoprene’s oxidation products, have much greater concentrations at higher altitudes than other ...

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) has gained focus as a driver for bridging and aligning business and IT-oriented views in information system development. The critical aspect of successful SOA is aligning technology and business; without proper alignment, the full potential of SOA will not be achieved. The current academic literature includes only few empirical studies on business-IT alignmen...

Driven by the requirement of environment-adaptable business, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) emerges with promising goals such as agility, flexibility, reusability and efficiency. Before reaching the goals, however, numerous and various challenges are still obstructing the success of SOA implementation. To efficiently deal with existing challenges, we can use an interdisciplinary approach t...

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is nothing new. Using SOA in the company’s IT-Landscape gives the ability to drive IT-Evolution through business and to enable better business operations through a more flexible, agile and low maintenance IT. Hence it’s amazing that an SOA landscape is quite rare in globally operating companies. IT-Landscapes of global companies are often historically grown a...

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an emerging IT strategy. It is an architectural style for building loosely coupled distributed systems that deliver application functionality as services. Currently there is little academic research published on SOA. As a result, we know little about what factors affect SOA implementation such that reported benefits can be achieved. To fill this gap, we st...