Clouds and service-oriented architectures

摘要

As emerging technologies, Clouds and Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs) attract attention worldwide, ranging from casual Internet users to IT giants (e.g. Microsoft and Google). At the same time, the innovations of Clouds and SOAs also offer many interesting avenues of research for scientific communities. Recent advances in Cloud and SOAs, including computational power, storage, networking, and infrastructure innovations, are providing exciting opportunities to make significant progress in understanding and solving complex real-world challenges.