Abstract. A self-managed system is both self-assembling and selfhealing. Service-oriented Computing (SoC) architectures, such as a Web Services Architecture (WS-A) illustrate a hig...
The evolution of any software product over its lifetime is unavoidable, caused both by bugs to be fixed and by new requirements appearing in the later stages of the product's...
— All large vendors of standard business software have announced to move to service oriented architecture. They claim benefits for their customers with regard to agility and ope...
: IT risk management is an important challenge for businesses and software vulnerabilities are a major source of IT risks, as the 2006 CSI/FBI Computer Crime and Security Survey [G...