Structural enablers and inhibitors of SOA-enabled interoperability
Supervisor:
Paul Bannerman
Research Area:
Software Engineering, Organisational Design
Associated Staff
Assessor:
Ross Jeffery
Topic Details
Status:
Active
Type:
Research
Programs:
CS
SE
Group Suitable:
No
Industrial:
No
Pre-requisites:
Description:
With the propagation of SOA-enabled capabilities to source individual operations, process fragments and even whole processes under software control from other organizations via the web, we need to start considering organisational factors that might facilitate or act as barriers in organizations sourcing business processes or applications from other organizations as software service providers. This project aims to commence this task by investigating the implications of various organization structures (such as the functional, process, project, matrix and/or virtual organisation forms) as enablers of inhibitors of software service interoperability. This is purely a research project; it involves no development. It requires someone familiar with web-services, service-oriented architecture (SOA) and service-oriented computing (SOC) who is interested and willing to elevate their inquiry to the organisation domain to consider the role that organisation structures and designs might play in SOC.
Comments:
Dr Paul Bannerman is a NICTA research scientist and conjoint UNSW/CSE research fellow. You will need to attend review meetings at the NICTA ATP laboratory near the Redfern train station (13 Garden Street, Eveleigh). This topic may be of interest to students considering post-graduate research. It provides basic foundations in independently investigating a research topic.
