Engineering Service Oriented Systems

Despite pressures of economic slowdown and the e-commerce bubble burst moving towards e-services is a compelling necessity for today''s organizations. Companies that are reluctant to adopt a service oriented architecture in their IT systems will be missing out on unprecedented opportunities to create business value with relatively small IT investments. Engineering Service Oriented Systems: A Model-Driven Approach combines concepts from systems theory model driven software engineering and ontologies for software engineering into a systematic method for engineering service oriented systems while integrating both business and software perspectives.