SOA is rapidly emerging as the premier integration and architectural approach in contemporary complex, heterogeneous computing environments. SOA is not simply about deploying software: it also requires that organizations evaluate their business models, come up with service-oriented analysis and design techniques, deployment and support plans, and carefully evaluate partner/customer/supplier relationships. Since SOA is based on open standards and is frequently realized using Web services, developing meaningful Web service and business process specifications is an important requirement for SOA applications that leverage Web services. Designers and developers cannot be expected to oversee a complex service-oriented development project without relying on a sound design and development methodology. This paper provides an overview of the methods and techniques used in service-oriented design and development. Aim of this paper is to examine a service development methodology from the point of view of both service producers and requesters and review the range of elements in this methodology that are available to them.Keywords: service oriented computing; service oriented architecture; business processes; web services; design and development methodologies.Biographical notes: Michael P. Papazoglou is a professor of computer science and director of the INFOLAB at the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands. His research interests include distributed systems, service-oriented computing and Web services, enterprise application integration, and e-Business technologies and applications. He received PhD in computer systems engineering from the University of Edinburgh.Willem-Jan van den Heuvel is an associate professor of information Systems at the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands. His research interests include service-oriented computing, alignment of new enterprise system with legacy systems, and system evolution. He received a PhD in computer science from the University of Tilburg.

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Emerging serverless computing technologies, such as function as a service (FaaS), enable developers to virtualize the internal logic of an application, simplifying the management of cloud-native services and allowing cost savings through billing and scaling at the level of individual functions. Serverless computing is therefore rapidly shifting the attention of software vendors to the challenge of developing cloud applications deployable on FaaS platforms. In this vision paper, we present the research agenda of the RADON project (http://radon-h2020.eu), which aims to develop a model-driven DevOps framework for creating and managing applications based on serverless computing. RADON applications will consist of fine-grained and independent microservices that can efficiently and optimally exploit FaaS and container technologies. Our methodology strives to tackle complexity in designing such applications, including the solution of optimal decomposition, the reuse of serverless functions as well as the abstraction and actuation of event processing chains, while avoiding cloud vendor lock-in through models.

Compliance management is essential for ensuring that organizational business processes and supporting information systems are in accordance with a set of prescribed requirements originating from laws, regulations, and various legislative or technical documents such as Sarbanes-Oxley Act or ISO 17799. As the violation of such requirements may lead to significant punishment for an organization, compliance management should be supported at the very early stages of business process development. In this paper, we present an integrated approach to compliance management that helps process designers to adhere to compliance requirements relevant for their processes. Firstly, we introduce a conceptual model for specifying compliance requirements originating from various compliance sources. Secondly, we propose a framework for augmenting business processes with reusable fragments to ensure process compliance to certain requirements by design. Furthermore, we discuss the formalization of compliance requirements using mathematical logics and integrate the framework for process reuse with automated software verification tools.

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