Track: Internet and the Digital Economy
Minitrack: Technology and Strategies for Service-oriented
----------------Architectures

A service-oriented IT architecture (SOA) is an architectural style for building software applications that use available services in a network, which is gaining increasing importance in the industry. All major enterprise system vendors have or are redesigning their software packages to support a service-oriented approach and industry researchers expect that a majority of organizations will implement their systems based on a service-oriented architecture.

Several standardization bodies are involved in the development of standards related to SOA. The key organizations are the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium), the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS), and WS-I (Web Services - Interoperability).

SOA is having a have a profound impact on how information systems are being developed, how IT units are being organized, and may even provide opportunities for new business models. While core standards and technologies related to SOA have matured and are being widely implemented, standards relating to higher level layers of the Web services "technology stack" (e.g., orchestration, reliability, and semantic description) are still emerging or maturing.

Topics and research areas include, but are not limited to:
* Reviews of existing specifications and standards, implementation tools, and discussion of their current and future development
* Proposals for development, extensions and improvements of current specifications (i.e., semantic description for Web services)
* Examination of strategies and approaches of technology application (i.e., governance of Web services registries) in service-oriented architectures
* Studies on the organizational impact of the adoption of service-oriented architectures

Co-chairs:
William Dave Haseman (Primary Contact)
School of Business Administration
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
PO Box 742, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA
Direct Phone: +1-414-229-4357
Departmental Phone: +1-414-229-3333
Fax: +1-414-229-4477
Email: daveh@uwm.edu

Marc N. Haines
School of Business Administration
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
PO Box 742, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA
Direct Phone: +1-414-229-3773
Departmental Phone: +1-414-229-4235
Fax: +1-414-229-4477
Email: mhaines@uwm.edu

Frank Armour
School of Information Technology and Engineering
George Mason University
22929 Golden Plover Place, Brambleton , VA 20148, USA
Phone: +1-202-251-3554
Email: farmour@att.net