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This paper introduces research challenges on future service-oriented systems and software services. Those research challenges have been identified in a coordinated effort by researchers under the umbrella of the EU FP7 Network of Excellence S-Cube. We ...

Our research focus is on social and sustainable Service-Oriented software engineering. From a social point of view, understanding social structures in Service-Oriented software engineering can lead to better software (as phrased in Conway's law). From a ...

Coordinating the configurations of Services, Orchestrations, Execution Platform and Infrastructure layers in a Service-Based environment is a significant challenge for software industry. In recent years, it has become even more difficult, because ...

The increasing trend of organizations moving toward service based applications (SBAs) for performing business operations leads to enormous complexity in designing business transactions. Traditional models do not have adequate ability to underpin the ...

This paper focuses on providing an overview of the research challenges that have been identified toward the end of the S-Cube network in the area of service engineering. These challenges concern the need for agility and dynamicity of the development ...

This research summary outlines results achieved by Hamburg University during its participation in the EU NoE "S-Cube" focusing on process instance migration. It includes corresponding results in the context of dynamic and mobile environments (as, e.g., ...

Today, a trend in Business Process Management (BPM) research is the study of techniques and paradigms that can handle agility. Thus, trend is also to decompose complex business processes for different purposes such as reuse or understanding. However, ...

Cloud Computing builds on the latest achievements of diverse research areas, such as Grid Computing, Service-oriented computing, business process modeling and virtualization. As this new computing paradigm was mostly lead by companies, several ...

This work gives an overview of the future research challenges on enabling technologies for service-based applications that have been identified in the network of excellence S-Cube. Service-based applications comprise three layers: business processes, ...

Providers of composite Web services face the challenge of having to comply to SLAs, which are agreements governing the minimum performance that customers can expect from a composite service. In this work, a framework for optimizing adaptations of ...

Adaptivity for service-based systems is one of the most challenging research problems to fully exploit the dinamicity promised by the service paradigm. In this paper we present the research results achieved by the FBK SOA unit within the S-Cube Network, ...

Service-Based Applications (SBAs) life-cycle, i.e. their design, development, maintenance and deployment, presents several challenging problems concerning their management in open and heterogeneous environments they operate in. The possibility to adopt ...

Adaptation of complex service-based systems is one of the most challenging research problems for the Future Internet. A considerable effort has been dedicated in recent years to address this problem. However, there are still several important issues ...

We describe our approaches to enhance consistency validation and QoS prediction in service-oriented systems by making use of data properties and the structure of workflows and service compositions.

This paper summarizes two techniques for online failure prediction allowing to anticipate the need for adaptation of service-oriented systems: (1) SPADE, employing run-time verification to predict failures of service compositions. (2) PROSA, building on ...

Online quality prediction allows service-oriented systems to anticipate the need for adaptation and thus to prevent the actual occurrence of failures or to mitigate upcoming failures. Such proactive adaptation capabilities are increasingly relevant for ...