The purpose of this work is to provide a long-term consensus SOA research agenda, classified into research issues pertaining to the business, engineering, and operation aspects of service-oriented systems, plus a set of cross-cutting aspects.The SEI seeks collaborators to

• evolve a long-term research agenda for SOA that was initially developed by the SEI with a team of international experts
• participate with an international community of interest that is carrying out parts of the research agenda
• carry out parts of the research agenda and disseminate the results through the international community of interest

Overview of the SOA Problem and Solution Space

The development of a service-oriented system requires that business, engineering, and operations decisions be made, as well as other cross-cutting decisions. Our proposed taxonomy of research topics is divided into these decision areas.

Further Reading:

• Introduction to this SOA research agenda (pdf, 654 kb)
• Proceedings of the International Workshop on the Foundations of Service-Oriented Architecture (FSOA 2007)
• Results of the Hard Problems in SOA Workshop, cosponsored by IBM, CMU, and the SEI
• Results of the Workshop on Software Engineering Foundations for End-User Programming (SEEUP 2009)