Enhancing User-Service Interaction through a Global User-Centric Approach to SOA

Javier Soriano, David Lizcano, Juan J. Hierro, Marcos Reyes, Christoph Schroth, Till Janner
2008 Fourth International Conference on Networking and Services (icns 2008)  
Considered as enablers of seamless application-toapplication integration both within company boundaries and on a global scale, Web Services-based SOAs have traditionally focused on automating service-to-service collaboration. However, they have neverfeatured a "face" to human users. This gap between human users and services still prevenís enterpnses from realizing how innovations at the SOA front-end help to make people more productive. And, ultimately, it hinders the emergence of a real Web of
more » ... Services driven by a global, user-centric SOA. In this paper, we revisit the notion of SOA and analyze its major shortcomings with regard to the emergence of a Web of Services enhancing user-service interaction and increased service usability. We then elabórate on novel, currently emerging technologies that facilítate the establishment of the global mesh of interoperable user-centric services. A novel platform architecture is presented thatbuilds on all the key technical enablers.
doi:10.1109/icns.2008.37 dblp:conf/icns/SorianoLHRSJ08 fatcat:wy4qdxbab5fqtdoyfh7ed5sgu4