Service oriented modeling

In the last few years both Scientists and Practitioners have been discussing the issue of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA). Modeling the business processes is the first step to formalize (functional and non-functional) service requirements. BPEL as an executable model and the dominant standard in the SOA modeling discipline does not cover all aspects of business process modeling. Modeling business requirements using notations apart of BPEL the process models have to be transformed to executable formal models which are necessary to orchestrate services in subject to fulfill defined business requirements. Further aspects as service life-cycles, roles and service management issues need to be considered. With this book we are presenting the accepted papers for the 1st International Workshop SOAM 2006 “Modeling the SOA – Business perspective and model mapping" organized on the ICSOC 2006 (4th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing) in Chicago/USA.