The introduction of service-oriented architectures (SOA) in the enterprise context promises many advantages. For example, by composing existing services new capabilities can be provided quickly allowing a fast and agile reaction to changing market conditions. In order to support companies in a successful adoption of SOA, service-orientation must be integrated in their enterprise architecture. M...

The introduction of a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) can affect performance in a negative way. This exacerbates the application of SOA to systems for bulk data processing. This paper describes specific aspects of Service-Oriented Architectures that impact performance particularly. It discusses several approaches to these issues that are currently established and motivates the need for a fr...

Service-oriented computing, which offers more flexible means for application development, is gaining popularity. Service-oriented grid applications are constructed by selecting and composing appropriate services. They are one kind of promising applications in grid environments. However, the dynamism and autonomy of environments make the issues of dynamically adapting a service-oriented grid app...

We present a systematic means of designing serviceoriented systems. Because services are developed independently, with no prior knowledge about each other, there is only a limited possibility that such services use similar message templates, initiate calls to any other service, or generate messages to support desired architecture configurations. As a result, construction of service-oriented sys...