Abstract

Computer science is entering a new generation. The previous generation was based on
abstracting from hardware. The emerging generation comes from abstracting from
software and sees all resources as services in a service-oriented architecture (SOA). In a
world of services, it is the service that counts for a customer and not the software or
hardware components that implement the service. Service-oriented architectures are
rapidly becoming the dominant computing paradigm. However, current SOA solutions
are still restricted in their application context to in-house solution of companies. A
service web will have billions of services. While service orientation is widely
acknowledged for its potential to revolutionize the world of computing by abstracting
form underlying hardware and software layers, that success depends on resolving
fundamental challenges that SOA does not address currently. The mission of Service
Web 3.0 is to provide solutions to integration and search that will enable the Service
Oriented Architecture (SOA) revolution on a worldwide scale