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Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) utilizes services as the lightweight constructs to support the development of rapid, low-cost and easy composition of distributed applications. Services are autonomous platform-independent computational elements that can be described, published, discovered, programmed, and orchestrated to loosely coupled applications using standard protocols for the purpose of building agile networks of collaborating business applications distributed within and across organizational boundaries

The "service-oriented" approach is independent of specific programming languages or operating systems. It allows organizations to expose their core competencies programmatically over the Internet or a variety of networks, e.g., cable, UMTS, XDSL, Bluetooth, etc., using standard (XML-based) languages and protocols, and is implemented via a self-describing interface based on open standards. SOC is changing the way software applications are designed, architected, delivered and consumed.

The proposed seminar attempts to overcome the present fragmentation of research efforts in the area of service-oriented computing by exchanging ideas, trying to find common ground in the form of a common research agenda, and sketch a technical road map capturing the state of the art in SOC research and identifying opportunities for conducting joint research. A Service-Oriented Computing Manifesto is expected as an outcome of the seminar. Starting point of the road map construction process could be the extended service-oriented architecture (xSOA) proposed by Papazoglou and Georgakopoulos in their introduction to the special issue on SOC in CACM 46(10), 2003. The extended SOA suggests a logical separation of basic service capabilities provided by the conventional SOA (for example, building simple applications) from more advanced service functionality (for example, composing services on the fly), and from the management of services (for example, managing service compositions).

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