An Adaptive Service-Oriented Architecture

Service Oriented Architectures and Autonomic Computing are heralded as the defacto solutions for constructing and evolving complex and highly- adaptive enterprise applications. Unfortunately however, the architectures proposed are visionary; how to design, build and evolve adaptive service-enabled applications remains largely unclear. In this paper, we introduce an extension to the Service Oriented Architecture, called Adaptive Service Oriented Architecture, leveraging it with concepts and mechanisms from Autonomic Computing and Agent Technology. We illustrate the constituents and implications of ASOA with an prototypical architecture which deals with interoperability issues.