05462 Service-Oriented Computing: A Research Roadmap

This document presents a Services Research Roadmap that launches four pivotal, inherently related, research themes to Service-Oriented Computing (SOC): service foundations, service composition, service management and monitoring and service-oriented engineering. Each theme is introduced briefly from a technology, state of the art and scientific challenges standpoint. From the technology standpoint a comprehensive review of state of the art, standards, and current research activities in each key area is provided. From the state of the art the major open problems and bottlenecks to progress are identified. During the during seminar each core theme was initially introduced by a leading expert in the field who described the state of the art and highlighting open problems and important research topics for the SOC community to work on in the future. These experts were then asked to coordinate parallel workgroups that were entrusted with an in-depth analysis of the research opportunities and needs in the respective theme. The findings presented in this summary report build on the advice of those panels of experts from industry and academia who participated in this Dagstuhl Seminar and met at other occasions during the past three years, e.g., at the International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC, see www.icsoc.org). These experts represent many disciplines including distributed computing, database and information systems, software engineering, computer architectures and middleware and knowledge representation.