The mission of the Service Oriented Computing Group is to pursue long-term research in Web services, Service Oriented Architectures, and autonomous data sharing. Currently we focus on web services protocols and services composition, trust management, peer-to-peer data sharing, service provisioning in mobile environments. We are also involved in e-commerce teaching activities at the school. The group maintains fruitful collaborations with a number of national and international academic research groups, industry and government research institutions, and commercial companies.