TY - JOUR AU - Gonen, Bilal AU - Fang, Xingang AU - El-Sheikh, Eman AU - Bagui, Sikha AU - Wilde, Norman AU - Zimmermann, Alfred PY - 2015/01/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Ontological Support for the Evolution of Future Services Oriented Architectures JF - Transactions on Engineering and Computing Sciences JA - TECS VL - 2 IS - 6 SE - Articles DO - 10.14738/tmlai.26.784 UR - https://journals.scholarpublishing.org/index.php/TMLAI/article/view/784 SP - 77 AB - <p>Services Oriented Architectures (SOA) have emerged as a useful framework for developing interoperable, large-scale systems, typically implemented using the Web Services (WS) standards. However, the maintenance and evolution of SOA systems present many challenges. SmartLife applications are intelligent user-centered systems and a special class of SOA systems that present even greater challenges for a software maintainer. Ontologies and ontological modeling can be used to support the evolution of SOA systems. This paper describes the development of a SOA evolution ontology and its use to develop an ontological model of a SOA system. The ontology is based on a standard SOA ontology. The ontological model can be used to provide semantic and visual support for software maintainers during routine maintenance tasks. We discuss a case study to illustrate this approach, as well as the strengths and limitations.</p> ER -