EIC Editorial: Introduction to the Knowledge Areas of Services Computing

I the inaugural issue of the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), I used “SOA,” “service-oriented consulting methodologies,” and “services delivery platform and methodology” as examples to introduce the multi-level structure of the body of knowledge areas of Services Computing. Since body of knowledge areas can help the readers, authors, reviewers, editors, and community members at large to get a landscape view of the emerging Services Computing discipline, I would like to take this opportunity to introduce the structure and relationships of the details of the newly published TSC taxonomy [3]. TSC uses those key knowledge areas as the foundation to create a disciplined approach to organizing paper submissions, reviewers, and editors. In order to have a comprehensive introduction to all the identified knowledge areas, I will extract and reorganize some contents from [1], [2]. Just to recap from [1], the 14 main knowledge areas of the Services Computing discipline included in the TSC taxonomy [3] can be categorized into the following four categories: Category 1 is about Services and Services Systems, which includes Principle of Services (M1) and Services Lifecycle (M2); Category 2 is about Services Technologies, which includes Web Services (M3), Service-Oriented Architecture (M4), Services Relationships (M5), Services Composition (M6), and Business Process Management & Integration (M7); Category 3 is about Services Consulting and Delivery, which includes Business Grid and Cloud Computing (M8), Enterprise Modeling and Management (M9), Service-Oriented Consulting Methodology (M10), and Services Delivery Platform and Methodology (M11); and Category 4 is about Services Solutioning and Management, which includes Application Services and Standards (M12), Security, Privacy, and Trust in Services Computing (M13), and Services Management (M14).