Special issue on Service-Oriented Architecture and Programming (SOAP 2013)

摘要

The last decades have seen a profound transformation in the way software services are deployed and offered to users. Since the time of mainframes and highly centralised systems, technologies and paradigms have progressively shifted towards distribution, often facing new technical issues that have been tackled by researchers both at public universities or private corporations. Extremes tend to touch each other, and indeed we have seen - especially in the last decade - how pushing forward the concept of distributed systems to the extreme led us to a new form of "distributed centralisation" (or "centralised distribution") that moves from Service Oriented Computing - where services are the basic units of computations to integrate business applications - to the new frontiers of Cloud Computing and Software as a Service (SaaS).