Service Oriented Architecture Approach Research Articles

Implementation of Service Oriented Architecture in Mobile Applications to Improve System Flexibility, Interoperability, and Scalability

This research aims to apply Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) to mobile applications to improve the flexibility, interoperability, and scalability of the system. SOA is an approach that enables better integration between different components in an application architecture. Mobile applications, as an integral part of everyday life, require high flexibility and adaptability to changing user needs. The research method used involves application requirements analysis, SOA architecture design, and implementation on an existing mobile application. Through the implementation of SOA, resource management and service distribution become more efficient, making it easy to add or change features without affecting the entire system. Test results show improved application performance and responsiveness, along with the ability to easily integrate services from multiple sources. In addition, the SOA architecture provides flexibility in the development and maintenance of mobile applications, accelerating the development process and minimizing the impact of changes. This research contributes to the development of mobile applications by introducing the SOA approach as an architectural foundation. The implementation of SOA in mobile applications is expected to guide developers in creating systems that are more resilient, adaptive, and easy to integrate with rapidly evolving software environments.

Implementasi Model Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) dalam Perancangan Sistem Informasi UMKM

This research focuses on developing a Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Information System architecture using the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and microservices approach. This study successfully integrated SME system services and functionalities encompassing accounting management, financial management, product analysis, stock management, invoicing, and taxation services within an SOA structure. Adopting the principles of microservices, each service was able to isolate information and ensure consistency within its scope. Using CI/CD, service mesh, and the Kubernetes platform facilitated efficient and secure code delivery and effective inter-service communication management. This research demonstrates the importance of service-oriented architecture and microservices in building a modular, flexible, and customizable SME information system that can reuse resources and reduce dependency on back-end applications. As a result, the system produced can be easily adapted and enhanced to meet changing policy and business needs.

Desain Implementasi Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) pada pembuatan Prototype Sistem Informasi Coaching Pondok Pesantren Alam Sayang Ibu (PAMSI)

The presence of service-oriented computing, through the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), and the implementation of information technology through website applications provide opportunities for more appropriate system utilization for an organization by providing options for implementing functionalities in a modular manner, according to the needs of the organization following the evolution of service growth, without the need for large Information Technology infrastructure investments. In order to develop an Coaching Information System for Pondok Pesantren Alam Sayang Ibu (PAMSI) with a service functionality basis, it is necessary to define a prototype model of Coaching Information System with an SOA approach through understanding the process of coaching activities and must be relevant to the needs of each party involved. This study aims to create a SOA implementation design that can be used as a guideline to be used as the main foundation in the creation of a PAMSI Coaching Information System and can be used as a reference for the development of other Information Systems at PAMSI.

A comparative study on multi-agent and service-oriented microgrid automation systems from energy internet perspective

The current advancements of energy, information, communication, and automation technologies and their integration have provided ways for the energy industry to transform into cleaner energy systems. This transition has contributed to the concept called energy internet. The recent energy technologies provide clean energy generation, storage and demand response through distributed energy resources. Information, communication, and automation technologies aim to provide supporting software tools and enabling mechanisms to automate the operation and control of those resources in a coordinated way. Thus, researchers and the software industry are developing software frameworks and platforms to support energy system automation. Commonly, most of the frameworks follow the design principles of either multi-agent systems (MAS) or service-oriented architecture (SOA). However, there are many frameworks and no straightforward criteria to select which one to implement in energy systems’ automation applications to fulfill the energy internet vision. This study provides a conceptual investigation of MAS- and SOA-based software solutions by designing a use case for microgrid application automation considering its expansion for enabling energy internet. Two software frameworks, RIAPS and Arrowhead, have been selected as the candidates of MAS and SOA from the literature study. This study shows that neither MAS or SOA approach alone might not meet the requirements of microgrid automation and energy internet. Consequently, a combined approach of MAS and SOA is proposed.

Analytical Evaluation of SOA and SCRUM Business Process Management Approaches for IoT-Based Services Development

The SCRUM approach and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) framework are critical in assessing the factors that influence the efficiency of a business process and ensuring that business objectives are fulfilled, and the process is on track to meet those objectives. Flexibility and change adoption are critical features for both SCRUM and SOA approaches. Even though both sides encourage agility, the integration of the two independent concepts (SOA is the architectural framework while SCRUM is the development process) should be considered before being used in software management and development projects. This study assessed and analyzed both SCRUM and SOA’s diverse and different software architectural frameworks and development methodologies as well as their environment, which is integrated with the context of software project management and development setup for the software development industry. In addition, this study explores the similarities between the SCRUM process model and the SOA architectural framework to see if they are compatible and, if so, how they may be combined to enhance SOA-based projects. This research also looks at how to build and use a SCRUM methodology for large-scale SOA projects. As a result, SCRUM was chosen as the software development methodology for a research and development project based on SOA. In terms of project development and implementation, the complete project structure is made up of eight main parts.

A data management infrastructure for the integration of imaging and omics data in life sciences

BackgroundAs technical developments in omics and biomedical imaging increase the throughput of data generation in life sciences, the need for information systems capable of managing heterogeneous digital assets is increasing. In particular, systems supporting the findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability (FAIR) principles of scientific data management.ResultsWe propose a Service Oriented Architecture approach for integrated management and analysis of multi-omics and biomedical imaging data. Our architecture introduces an image management system into a FAIR-supporting, web-based platform for omics data management. Interoperable metadata models and middleware components implement the required data management operations. The resulting architecture allows for FAIR management of omics and imaging data, facilitating metadata queries from software applications. The applicability of the proposed architecture is demonstrated using two technical proofs of concept and a use case, aimed at molecular plant biology and clinical liver cancer research, which integrate various imaging and omics modalities.ConclusionsWe describe a data management architecture for integrated, FAIR-supporting management of omics and biomedical imaging data, and exemplify its applicability for basic biology research and clinical studies. We anticipate that FAIR data management systems for multi-modal data repositories will play a pivotal role in data-driven research, including studies which leverage advanced machine learning methods, as the joint analysis of omics and imaging data, in conjunction with phenotypic metadata, becomes not only desirable but necessary to derive novel insights into biological processes.

BEMCom

This note aims at supporting research on Building Energy Management (BEM), which addresses the active optimization of energy consumption patterns of buildings. For the practical evaluation of BEM algorithms, communication with devices in the building is required. Therefore, it is common to set up a Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL), i.e. a software that is able to interact with the devices, but also provides a unified interface for external components like optimization algorithms. However, implementing HAL applications often causes a significant effort using state of the art software, especially if the encountered devices make it necessary to develop custom software components to establish communication. In this paper we present the BEMCom framework as an alternative. BEMCom leverages a service oriented architecture (SOA) which enables the creation of applications with minimal effort by simple combination of services. This also allows the efficient development of new services that can reuse arbitrary existing software components. Furthermore, the SOA approach makes the created HAL applications easy to comprehend and supports stable operation. Alongside this paper, we release our implementation of BEMCom as open source, providing extensive documentation and ready-to-use services for the efficient creation of HALs.

Investigating Approaches of Integrating BIM, IoT, and Facility Management for Renovating Existing Buildings: A Review

The importance of building information is highly attached to the ability of conventional storing to provide professional analysis. The Internet of Things (IoT) and smart devices offer a vast amount of live data stored in heterogeneous repositories, and hence the need for smart methodologies to facilitate IoT–BIM integration is very crucial. The first step to better integrating IoT and Building Information Modeling (BIM) can be performed by implementing the Service-Oriented-Architecture (SOA) to combining software and other services by replacing the sematic information that was failed to display elements of indoor conditions. The other development is to create link that able to update static models towards real-time models using SOA approach. The existing approach relies on one-way interaction; however, developing two-way communication to mimic human cognitive has become very crucial. The high-tech approach requires highly involving Cloud computations to better connect IoT devices throughout Internet infrastructure. This approach is based on the integration of Building Information Modeling (BIM) with real-time data from IoT devices aiming at improving construction and operational efficiencies and to provide high-fidelity BIM models for numerous applications. The paper discusses challenges, limitations, and barriers that face BIM–IoT integration and simultaneously solves interoperability issues and Cloud computing. The paper provides a comprehensive review that explores and identifies common emerging areas of application and common design patterns of the traditional BIM-IoT integration followed by devising better methodologies to integrate IoT in BIM.

Analysis of Service-Oriented Architecture and Scrum Software Development Approach for IIoT

Flexibility and change adoption are key attributes for service-oriented architecture (SOA) and agile software development processes. Although the notion of agility is quite visible on both sides, still the integration of the two diverse concepts (architectural framework and development process) should be well thought of before employing them for a software development project. For this purpose, this study is designed to analyze the two diverse software architectural framework and development approaches, that is, SOA and Scrum process model, respectively, and their integrated environment in software project development setup perspective for Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). This study also analyzes commonalities among Scrum process model and SOA architectural framework to identify compatibility between Scrum and SOA so that the Scrum process can be constructively used for SOA based projects. This study also examines the proper design and setup of Scrum process suitable for large-scale SOA based projects. For this purpose, an SOA based research and development project is selected as a case study using Scrum as the software development process. The project development and deployment perspective include eight core modules that constitute the overall project framework.

An Application of Service Oriented Architecture Approach for Online Payment System: A Case of Information System of Atatürk University

Servis odaklı mimari (SOA) hizmetlerden oluşur ve tipik olarak bir ağ üzerindeki diğer bileşenlere koordineli bir şekilde hizmet eder. SOA’nın temel yapı taşları servislerdir ve bu servisler birbirlerine gevşek bağlıdırlar. Farklı platformlar üzerinde yazılmış kurumsal uygulamaların birbirleriyle entegrasyonu sürecinde yaşanan maliyet, süre, hız gibi problemlere bu anlamda SOA çözümler sunmaktadır. SOA; bankacılık sistemleri, online ödeme sistemleri, üniversite bilgi sistemleri gibi esnekliğin, hızın ve güvenliğin çok önemli olduğu birçok sistemde kullanılmaktadır. Bu çalışmada, Atatürk Üniversitesi bilgi sistemi için SOA yaklaşımından yararlanılarak öğrenci ve personelden alınması gereken harç, materyal, kart vb. tüm ödemelerin alınmasını sağlayan bir servis mimarisi kurulmuştur. Ödemelerin banka şubeleri, ATM’ler, internet bankacılığı ile servis üzerinden gerçekleştirebilmesi sağlanmıştır. Kişilerin bankalara, ATM’lere gitmeden çok kısa süreler içerisinde ödemelerini online yapabilmeleri ve yapılan ödemelerin ilgili sistemlere saniyeler içerinde aktarılabilmesi zamandan tasarruf sağlamaktadır. WCF mimarisinin bu çalışmada kullanılmasıyla hız, performans, birlikte çalışılabilirlik gibi konularda avantajlar sağlandığı görülmüştür. Bu çalışma kapsamında, ders kayıt dönemleri gibi yılın belirli yoğun dönemlerinde servise gelen istek sayıları incelenmiştir. Buna göre günlük ortalama 10.000 ve yıllık olarak da yaklaşık olarak bir milyon isteğe servisin yanıt verebildiği tespit edilmiştir. Benzer şekilde gelen istek ve işlem sayılarına bakarak, servis ile ders kayıt döneminde bir günde maksimum 50.000 işlemin gerçekleştiği kayıtlardan tespit edilmiştir.

Utilization of Service Oriented Architecture to Customize Accounting Business Process in Open ERP System for Smart SME’s

Small and medium enterprises or commonly referred to as SMEs in Indonesia are business activities that are in great demand after the economic crisis which resulted in the termination of employment (PHK) experienced by most companies. The role of SMEs in the Indonesian economy has now been recognized by the wider community. However, many SMEs in Indonesia are still running their business processes separately, especially in the accounting system, so that the business processes are running poorly, financial transactions that are still recorded and reported manually and separately, sales/purchase account items that are still recorded manually, and there's no system that supports the accounting process for SMEs.The output from this research is an Open Source ERP-based Smart SME system design in the accounting module by embedding the "smart" feature, namely analytic accounting. This design expected to be the standard and best practice in the SME accounting system so that SME's actors can create and get more structured financial reports and can design an integrated system that supports a real-time data management system.The research method used in this research uses the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) approach. This method also refers to certain services on one platform such as services for making payments, transferring payments, and checking the status of a bank account in one application. In general, all the research processes carried out refer to the step by step of SOA and there must be input and output in designing the business model. This method is used to design business process models and services based on the accounting system problems experienced by SMEs.

Development and Integration of E-learning Services Using REST APIs

E-Learning systems have gained a lot of traction amongst students and academicians due to their flexible nature in terms of location independence, time, effort, cost and other resources. The rapidly changing nature of the education domain makes the design, development, testing, and maintenance of E-Learning systems complex and expensive. In order to adapt to the changing policies of educational institutes as well as improve the performance of students, the paper presents a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) approach to minimize the cost and time associated with the development of E-Learning systems. The paper illustrates the development of independent E-Learning web services and how they can be combined to implement the required policies of respective education institutes. The paper also presents a sample policy implemented using developed web services to achieve the required objectives.

Decision as a Service (DaaS): A Service-Oriented Architecture Approach for Decisions in Processes

Separating decision modelling from the processes modelling concern recently gained significant support in literature, as incorporating both concerns into a single model impairs the scalability, maintainability, flexibility, and understandability of both processes and decisions. Most notably the introduction of the Decision Model and Notation (DMN) standard by the Object Management Group provides a suitable solution for externalising decisions from processes and automating decision enactments for processes. This article introduces a systematic way of tackling the separation of the decision modelling concern from process modelling by providing a Decision as a Service (DaaS) layered Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) which approaches decisions as automated and externalised services that processes need to invoke on demand to obtain the decision outcome. The DaaS mechanism is elucidated by a formalisation of DMN constructs and the relevant layer elements. Furthermore, DaaS is evaluated against the fundamental characteristics of the SOA paradigm, proving its contribution in terms of abstraction, reusability, loose coupling, and other pertinent SOA principles. Additionally, the benefits of the DaaS design on process-decision modelling and mining are discussed. Finally, the DaaS design is illustrated on a real-life event log of a bank loan application and approval process, and the SOA maturity of DaaS is assessed.

SOADIWA: A Service-oriented Architecture for Data Interoperability in Web Applications

The realisation of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) to communicate data between systems running on different platforms lack an organised framework to capture the essential elements required for successful interoperability between web applications and their services. In this work, a SOA for Data Interoperability in Web Applications (SOADIWA) was designed. The architecture of SOADIWA was based on five layers, namely Web Application Layer (WAL), Quality of Service Assurance Certifier Layer (QoSACL), Web Service Layer (WSL), Visualization Input Layer (VIL) and Visualization Output Layer (VOL). In WAL, the Service Requester (SR) initiates a request for data from the Service Provider (SP) through the QoSACL to provide appropriate website via WSL for rendering of services which must be accepted, processed and returned for a particular need in VIL. The requested data is filtered in VIL for data exploration and analysis in VOL using context-sensitive visualization techniques. The purpose of QoSACL is to check and verify the claims made by the SP about its quality of service. This enabled the SR to choose the service that satisfied its needs. The implementation comprised of Java Script, Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 and NuGet packages; while the experiment was simulated on LoadUI pro application. Standard metrics such as Optimal Performance (OP) and Phased Effort Distribution (PED) were developed to test SOADIWA. These results conformed to basic web service interoperability. The work led to the integration of a host of techniques towards the creation of a novel tool that is useful in web domain using SOA approach.

Application Development wtih Service Oriented Architecture

Today, it is one of the most invested areas of organizations to ensure the interoperability of existing corporate applications and newly developed or purchased applications. Developed systems are designed to be shaped according to the needs of the businesses that use it. Classical systems are automation systems that operate from point to point and from other platforms in the enterprise without interaction. Unlike these, the service-oriented architecture (SOA) contains a structure that is ready to interact. In this study, a system has been designed in order to reduce the integration costs between the applications in the long term by using SOA approach, to shorten the business processes in the institution and to reduce the economic costs. In the project, work pieces were published as a method of service over the service layer. Thus, the platform independent main application is accessible to each work piece. At the same time, these work pieces can come together and be reconfigured according to the request of the enterprise. Some of the advantages achieved by using SOA are: Providing improved work processes for services and actors, ensuring collaboration, utilizing from existing and reuse with savings, providing business flexibility by responding to changing business needs.

Size Metrics for Service-Oriented Architecture

Determining the size, effort and cost of Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) systems is important to facilitate project planning and eventually successful implementation of a software project. SOA approach is one of the recent software architectures that allow integration of applications within and outside the organization regardless of heterogeneous technology over a distributed network. A number of research studies have been done to measure SOA size.However, these studies are not based on software metrics rendering them to be ineffective in their estimation. This study defined a set of SOA size metrics based on Unified Modelling Language (UML). The study employed Briand’s theoretical validation to test the validity of the designed SOA size metrics. Findings from this study will provide metrics to measure SOA size more accurately and form a basis for future software engineering researchers to develop more effective and more accurate size metrics and effort estimation methods.

Intelligent Microservices in Service-Oriented Architecture for Big Data Organization

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) approach transcends the current technological innovations and automation concepts of addressing a variety of business organization problems and concerns. Microservices are an integral part of contemporary service-oriented architectures for distributed computing applications. Mining of big data with intelligence is very important for accurate predictive analysis and making critical business decisions. Big data with SOA or Service-oriented Business Intelligence (SoBI) enables business organizations to produce reliable and agile business solutions. This paper aims at presenting a brief analysis of integrating intelligence in service oriented architecture with microservices and its applications in big data organizations . The research area is based on artificial intelligence techniques like deep learning, machine learning, neural network etc. that will en-graft intelligence in mining of big data in service oriented architecture software systems.

Towards an Architecture for Handling Big Data in Oil and Gas Industries: Service-Oriented Approach

Existing architectures to handle big data in Oil & gas industry are based on industry-specific platforms and hence limited to specific tools and technologies. With these architectures, we are confined to big data single-provider solutions. The idea of multi-provider big data solutions is essential. When building up big data solutions, organizations should embrace the best-in-class technologies and tools that different providers offer. In this article, we hypothesize that the limitations of the proposed big-data architectures for oil and gas industries can be addressed by a Service Oriented Architecture approach. In this article, we are proposing the idea of breaking complex systems to simple separate yet reliable distributed services. It should be noted that loose coupling exists between the interacting services. Thus, our proposed architecture enables petroleum industries to select the necessary services from the SOA-based ecosystem and create viable big data solutions.

Autonomous Production Workstation Operation, Reconfiguration and Synchronization

The decoupling of production line’s workstations and its equipment from the higher layers in an automation architecture has the potential to provide the following benefits: 1. Dynamic workstation reconfiguration; 2. Autonomous synchronization of workstation equipment; 3. Autonomous workstation operation.Each of these benefits will improve the automation flexibility at each workstation and for the whole production line.Introducing IoT equipment into workstations and making use of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) fundamentals such as lookup, late binding and loose coupling are shown here to provide the above benefits. In addition, the cost of such an implementation and deployment seems to be significantly less than the comparable cost for legacy technology.An implementation, using the SOA approach on a workstation, at the Volvo Trucks production facility in Gothenburg was made possible thanks to the Arrowhead framework, which has been shown to provide all three listed improvements.The analysis of the above-mentioned demonstration clearly shows how the workstation reconfiguration is made simple using the arrowhead ServiceRegistry system. Autonomous synchronization is achieved through the look-up and late binding capabilities provided by the arrowhead Orchestration system in cooperation with the ServiceRegistry system. Finally, autonomous workstation operation is provided through the support of the arrowhead Workflow Manager and Workflow Executor systems.All these benefits were achieved at a significantly reduced cost compared to comparable legacy implementation.

Connectivity as a prior challenge in establishing CPPS on basis of heterogeneous IT-software environments

Abstract More and more elements in a modern production system are becoming smart devices and it is reasonable to integrate them into a Cyber Physical Production System (CPPS) in a consistent manner. There is the broad goal of many industrial players to open the rich potential of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), which has to be fast, secure and adaptive. The growing number of “things” in a production system requires satisfying connectivity solutions that are different to an easy coming “Peer-to-Peer architecture (P2P)”. The approach followed at the smartfactory@tugraz – the Learning Factory of Graz University of Technology in Austria – to achieve such an integration is to deploy an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), which is at the core of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). The goal is to integrate three main software applications including the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and the Management Execution System (MES). The additional challenge in this project is that these mentioned main applications are all provided by different suppliers. The selected SOA approach provides the basis for a scalable and extensible solution via Connectivity Modules and standardized interfaces. The smartfactory@tugraz validates this SOA approach by applying it to a real and fully operational manufacturing line. The smartfactory@tugraz is not only a learning factory but rather an open ecosystem by offering both students and researchers as well as industrial partners the ability to perform research on this subject. It is thus the ideal place to study the challenges and to understand the benefits of pushing a CPPS to a mature level in terms of connectivity in a manufacturing context.