SORASCS: A Case Study in SOA-based Platform Design for Socio-Cultural Analysis
Bradley Schmerl,
David Garlan,
Vishal Dwivedi, Michael W. Bigrigg and Kathleen M. Carley.
In Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering., Hawaii, USA, 2011.
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Abstract
| An increasingly important class of software-based systems is plat-forms that permit integration of third-party components, services, and tools. Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is one such plat-form that has been successful in providing integration and distri-bution in the business domain, and could be effective in other domains (e.g., scientific computing, healthcare, and complex deci-sion making). In this paper, we discuss our application of SOA to provide an integration platform for socio-cultural analysis, a domain that, through models, tries to understand, analyze and predict relationships in large complex social systems. In developing this platform, called SORASCS, we had to overcome issues we believe are generally applicable to any application of SOA within a domain that involves technically naïve users and seeks to establish a sustainable software ecosystem based on a common integration platform. We discuss those issues and the lessons learned about the kinds of problems that occur, and pathways toward a solution. |
Keywords: Architectural Style, SORASCS.
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