Introduction to the proceedings of the 1st EDOC 2009 Workshop on Service-Oriented Business Networks and Ecosystems (SOBNE ´09)

The first Workshop on Service-Oriented Business Networks and Ecosystems (SOBNE ´09) is held in conjunction with the 13th IEEE International EDOC Conference on 2 September 2009 in Auckland, New Zealand. The SOBNE ´09 program includes 9 peer-reviewed papers (7 full and 2 short papers) and an open discussion session. This introduction to the Proceedings of SOBNE ´09 starts with a brief background of the motivation for the workshop. Next, it contains a short description of the peer-reviewed papers, and finally, after some concluding statements and the announcement of the winners of the Best Reviewer Award and the Most Promising Research Award, it lists the members of the SOBNE ´09 Program Committee and external reviewers of the workshop submissions.