Springer computing special issue: adaptation in service-oriented and Cloud Computing

摘要

Service-oriented computing has enabled the seamless integration of existing software in a unifiedmanner. Moreover, it has enabled a common paradigm accepted and well understood by both business and information systems experts, on the one hand, and computer science and IT providers on the other. The service paradigm allowed for better interaction between these communities, which inevitably led to improved cooperation and united efforts towards enabling businesses with the appropriate IT support. Since recently, technologies enabling service-oriented architectures and service-based systems are considered main stream by the major IT providers. Despite the enormous support of the service-oriented paradigm however, there are still challenges identified by both industry and academia. In the last years, one of the major challenges in service-orientation has been adaptation.