[AISWorld] The contents of the latest issue of International Journal of Systems and Service-Oriented Engineering (IJSSOE) Volume 5, Issue 4,

[Zhaohao Sun]

Abstract Announcement for International Journal of Systems and
Service-Oriented Engineering (IJSSOE) 5(4)The contents of the latest issue
of:
*International Journal of Systems and Service-Oriented Engineering (IJSSOE)*
Volume 5, Issue 4, October - December 2015
Indexed by: INSPEC
Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically
ISSN: 1947-3052; EISSN: 1947-3060;
Published by IGI Global Publishing, Hershey, USA
www.igi-global.com/ijssoe
<http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-systems-service-oriented/1155>

Editor-in-Chief: Dickson K.W. Chiu (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
*Note: There are no submission or acceptance fees for manuscripts submitted
to the International Journal of Systems and Service-Oriented Engineering
(IJSSOE). All manuscripts are accepted based on a double-blind peer review
editorial process.*

*GUEST EDITORIAL PREFACE*

Special Issue on Service-Oriented Architecture in the Era of Big Data

Guadalupe Ortiz (University of Cádiz, Cádiz, Spain), Juan Boubeta-Puig
(University of Cádiz, Cádiz, Spain)

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*ARTICLE 1*

Rapid Development of Service-based Cloud Applications: The Case of the
Cloud Application Platforms

Fotis Gonidis (South-East European Research Centre, Thessaloniki, Greece &
The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK), Iraklis Paraskakis (South-East
European Research Centre, Thessaloniki, Greece), Anthony J. H. Simons
(Department of Computer Science, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK)

Cloud application platforms gain popularity and have the potential to alter
the way service-based cloud applications are developed involving
utilisation of platform basic services. A platform basic service provides
certain functionality and is usually offered via a web API. However, the
diversification of the services and the available providers increase the
challenge for the application developers to integrate them and deal with
the heterogeneous providers' web APIs. Therefore, a new approach of
developing applications should be adopted in which developers leverage
multiple platform basic services independently from the target application
platforms. To this end, the authors present a development framework
assisting the design of service-based cloud applications. The objective of
the framework is to enable the consistent integration of the services, and
to allow the seamless use of the concrete providers. The optimal service
provider each time can vary depending on criteria such as pricing, quality
of service and can be determined based upon Big Data analysis approaches.

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*ARTICLE 2*

A Scalable Big Stream Cloud Architecture for the Internet of Things

Laura Belli (University of Parma, Parma, Italy), Simone Cirani (University
of Parma, Parma, Italy), Luca Davoli (University of Parma, Parma, Italy),
Gianluigi Ferrari (University of Parma, Parma, Italy), Lorenzo Melegari
(University of Parma, Parma, Italy), Màrius Montón (WorldSensing,
Barcelona, Spain), Marco Picone (University of Parma, Parma, Italy)

The Internet of Things (IoT) will consist of billions (50 billions by 2020)
of interconnected heterogeneous devices denoted as “Smart Objects:” tiny,
constrained devices which are going to be pervasively deployed in several
contexts. To meet low-latency requirements, IoT applications must rely on
specific architectures designed to handle the gigantic stream of data
coming from Smart Objects. This paper propose a novel Cloud architecture
for Big Stream applications that can efficiently handle data coming from
Smart Objects through a Graph-based processing platform and deliver
processed data to consumer applications with low latency. The authors
reverse the traditional “Big Data” paradigm, where real-time constraints
are not considered, and introduce the new “Big Stream” paradigm, which
better fits IoT scenarios. The paper provides a performance evaluation of a
practical open-source implementation of the proposed architecture. Other
practical aspects, such as security considerations, and possible business
oriented exploitation plans are presented.

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*ARTICLE 3*

Fast Data Processing for Large-Scale SOA and Event-Based Systems

Marcel Tilly (European Microsoft Innovation Center, Munich, Germany),
Stephan Reiff-Marganiec (University of Leicester, Leicester, UK)

The deluge of intelligent objects that are providing continuous access to
data and services on one hand and the demand of developers and consumers to
handle these data on the other hand require us to think about new
communication paradigms and middleware. In hyper-scale systems, such as in
the Internet of Things, large scale sensor networks or even mobile
networks, one emerging requirement is to process, procure, and provide
information with almost zero latency. This work is introducing new concepts
for a middleware to enable fast communication by limiting information flow
with filtering concepts using policy obligations and combining data
processing techniques adopted from complex event processing.

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*ARTICLE 4*

Event Pattern Discovery in Multi-Cloud Service-Based Applications

Chrysostomos Zeginis (Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for
Research and Technology – Hellas,Heraklion, Greece), Kyriakos Kritikos
(Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology –
Hellas, Heraklion, Greece), Dimitris Plexousakis (Institute of Computer
Science, Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas, Heraklion, Greece)

The adoption of Cloud computing in the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
world is continuously increasing. However, as developers try to optimize
their application deployment cost and performance, they may also deploy
application parts redundantly on different VMs. In such heterogeneous and
distributed environments, it is important to have a clear view of the
system's state and its components' interrelationships. This paper aims at
proposing a novel monitoring and adaptation framework for Service-based
Applications (SBAs) deployed on multiple Clouds. The main functionality of
this framework is the discovery of critical event patterns within
monitoring event streams, leading to specific Service Level Objective (SLO)
violations. Furthermore, two main meta-models are proposed for describing
the SBA's components and their dependencies, and the supported adaptation
actions in a specific context respectively. The proposed approach is
empirically evaluated based on a real-world traffic management application.

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*ARTICLE 5*

Model-Based Relationship Management for Service Networks

Aneta Kabzeva (University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany),
Joachim Götze (University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany), Paul
Müller (University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany)

With the broad adoption of service-orientation for the realization of
business applications and their provisioning and usage over cloud
infrastructures, the topology of the resulting service networks is becoming
extremely complex. Due to the composition of services for value-added
business capabilities and the reusability of a service in multiple
compositions, the execution of one service often depends on other services
and changes in its provisioning can affect the health of large parts of the
service network. The lack of insight on the relationships between the
network components makes the management of the service network's health
hard and error prone tasks. This article introduces a service network
modeling approach for capturing the topology of a service network at design
time. The approach considers the complete modeling process from
representation, through collection, to analysis of the relationship
information. The major contributions are a generic and adaptable modeling
structure, a classification of service network entities and relationships,
and a modular management framework automating the modeling process.

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Engineering (IJSSOE)* is to provide a forum for researchers, academicians,
and practitioners to advance the practice and understanding of contemporary
theories and empirical analysis in the perspective of systems engineering
in achieving service excellence under the current globalized
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Dr. Zhaohao Sun, PhD, MACS (Snr) CP, MIEEE, MAIS

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Department of Business Studies

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