Sensoria – Software Engineering for Service-Oriented Overlay Computers

Abstract

Service-Oriented Computing is a paradigm where services are understood as autonomous, platform-independent computational entities that can be described, published, categorized, discovered, and dynamically assembled for developing massively distributed, interoperable, evolvable systems and applications. These characteristics have pushed service-oriented computing towards nowadays widespread success, demonstrated by the fact that many large companies invested a lot of efforts and resources to promote service delivery on a variety of computing platforms, mostly through the Internet in the form of Web services. In the past, service-oriented computing and development has been done in a pragmatic, mostly ad-hoc way. Theoretical foundations were missing that are needed for trusted interoperability, predictable compositionality, and quality issues like security, correctness, or resource usage. The IST-FET integrated project Sensoria has addressed these issues by developing a novel comprehensive approach to the engineering of service-oriented software systems where foundational theories, techniques and methods are fully integrated in a pragmatic software engineering approach, supporting semi-automatic development and deployment of self-adaptable (composite) services.

This work has been partially sponsored by the project Sensoria, IST-2005-016004.