Issues and Challenges in Web Service Management Systems
Surya Nepal, Athman Bouguettaya · INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NEXT-GENERATION COMPUTING · 2012
Service computing is a new research discipline which combines the efforts of multiple established disciplines like computer science, software engineering, information system, and social science. It aims to provide service-oriented solutions to enterprise applications. In addition, it provides foundation technologies to next generation computing paradigm such as cloud computing. Web Services (WS) and Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) are the technologies of choice for the development and deployment of service-oriented solutions. Web services are autonomous, platform-independent software unit that can be described, published, discovered, queried, changed, trusted, and programmed.