Tutorial Abstracts

Summary form only given, as follows.Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an architectural style for solution architects to create and manage new value added solutions by leveraging various solution artifacts such as business processes, services, packaged applications, and manageable attributes throughout their lifecycle. In this tutorial, we present our initial findings of mathematical modeling of a selected SOA solution architecture. It includes the steps required from a mathematical model to a real implementation of SOA solution tool using XML annotation, XML transformation, UML models and artifact generation with context-aware enabling utilities. We will start from the introduction of SOA concept, solution architecture, and practices in the field. Then we will present a mathematical abstraction of description of an SOA solution model using graph theory and define concepts to capture the relationships, constrains and notations of an SOA solution??s building blocks. In addition, XML is introduced and leveraged to convert this mathematical abstraction into materialized description of an SOA solution model which is independent from the product-specific tooling environment. As an example, we will introduce an SOA modeling tool using UML and context-aware software plug-in on top of IBM??s Rational Software Architect (RSA) to illustrate the seamless connection between the mathematical model and a reusable software system.