The aim of Service-Oriented Computing & Applications is to publish original and high quality research results on the service-oriented computing (SOC) paradigm, models and technologies that have significant contributions to the advancement of service oriented systems and their applications.

Service-oriented computing has emerged as a major research topic in the past few years. Although the concept has evolved from earlier component-based software frameworks, web service standards are based on the readily and openly available internet protocols, and thus are easier and cheaper for companies to adopt. The strong support from major computer and IT service companies further speeds up the acceptance and adoption of SOC.

However, service developers and users face many significant challenges and opportunities that are introduced by the dynamism of software service environments and requirements. This requires new concepts, methods, models, and technologies along with flexible and adaptive infrastructure for services developments and management in order to facilitate the on-demand integration and formation of services across different platforms and organizations. The success of service-oriented systems relies on the adoption of the derived technologies to meet the demands from the evolving environment.

The journal focuses on the issues and research results related to the development of service-oriented technology, including service infrastructures, theoretical foundations and their applications and experiences in service-oriented computing. Topics covered by the journal include, but are not limited to, the following subjects as they relate to service-oriented computing and applications:

Service-Oriented Architecture

    Services analysis, design, development and test
    Service orchestration and composition
    Resource management for web services
    Quality and reliability of web services

Service-Oriented Software Engineering

    Formal methods for services analysis, design, development, and test
    Service requirement engineering
    SOA solution patterns
    Services matching and policy
    Verification and validation of SOA systems
    Quality and reliability of web services

System Technology

    Security, trust and privacy
    QoS and end-to-end performance
    Web service standards
    Autonomic computing
    IP and digital right management
    Brokering and integration
    Service connection technology
    Grid-based web services

Business Services and Technology

    Business service representation and knowledge
    Business process integration and management
    Supply chain and channel management
    Auction
    Negotiation
    E-business standards

Service-Oriented Semantic Computing

    Semantic web
    Software agent
    Service discovery
    Ontological engineering
    Service evolutionary approaches

Service-Oriented Applications

    E-business and e-commerce
    M-commerce
    E-entertainment
    E-learning
    E-government
    E-health