This collection of sixteen articles on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) presents current scholarship in data and service interoperability and discovery in business complex, distributed computer architectures. The work is divided into three sections covering service level agreements (SLAs), service composition and reliability and fault tolerance and individual articles address such topics as flexible and dynamic SLA management in service oriented architectures, service directories, selective querying, aggregating functional and non-functional properties for service identification and model based methodologies for assessing business process availability. Papers include abstracts, illustrations, notes and references and a volume-wide compilation of reading resources is provided. Contributors include academics in computer science fields from universities in the US, Europe, South America and Australia. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
