Service-Oriented Computing in a Cloud Computing Environment

TL;DR: This paper contains the roadmap of development of the Engineering Design Platform, based on SOC, intended, in particular, for modeling and optimization of Nonlinear Dynamic Microsystems, being consisted of components of different physical nature and being widely spread in different scientific and engineering fields.

Abstract: SOC (service-oriented computing) represents a new generation of distributed computing framework for applications development by means of the composition of services. The visionary promise of SOC is a world-scale network of loosely coupled services that can be assembled with little effort in agile applications that may span organizations and computing platforms. Since services may be offered by different enterprises and communicate over the Internet, they provide an advanced distributed computing infrastructure for both intra- and cross-enterprise application integration and collaboration. The distinction between SOC and traditional computing is that application builders no longer construct software using a programming language. Instead, they specify the application logic in a high-level specification language, utilizing standard services as components. Services implement functions that can range from answering simple requests to executing sophisticated business processes requiring peer-to-peer relationships between possibly multiple layers of service consumers and providers. The delivery of software as a set of distributed services can help to solve problems like software reuse, deployment and evolution. The "software as a service model" will open the way to the rapid creation of new value-added composite services based on existing ones. Although service-oriented computing in cloud computing environments presents a new set of research challenges, their combination provides potentially transformative opportunities. So any user community, regardless of its discipline, should be supplied with the technological approach to build their own distributed compute-intensive multidisciplinary applications rapidly. This paper contains the roadmap of development of the Engineering Design Platform, based on SOC and intended, in particular, for modeling and optimization of Nonlinear Dynamic Microsystems, being consisted of components of different physical nature and being widely spread in different scientific and engineering fields.