Despite the growing acceptance of SOA, service-oriented computing remains a computing mechanism to speed-up the design of software applications by assembling ready-made services. We argue that it is difficult for business people to fully benefit of the SOA if it remains at the software level. We propose a move towards a description of services in business terms, i.e. intentions and strategies t...

The energy sector, which has traditionally been an oligarchic closed one, is undergoing major changes at all levels. On the one hand, more and more players are authorized to produce, deal and transport energy (unbundling of the sector), while on the other hand, the traditional energy consumers are now in the position to also produce and trade energy. This new trend can be supported by Service-O...

This document presents the Soability model, which assesses on a strategic level how well an IT environment is able to support an SOA based on Web Services. The model is designed to support the answering of typical questions that decision makers in companies face. By so doing the model addresses a lack of methodological support for stakeholders who need to plan an SOA holistically.

Service definition

This paper presents the realisation, using a Service Oriented Architecture, of an approach for dynamic flexibility and evolution in workflows through the support of flexible work practices, based not on proprietary frameworks, but on accepted ideas of how people actually work. A set of principles have been derived from a sound theoretical base and applied to the development of worklets, an exte...