This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2006, held in Chicago, IL, USA in December 2006.The 34 revised full papers and 16 short papers presented together with 12 industrial and demo papers were carefully reviewed and selected from over 200 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on service mediation, grid services and scheduling, mobile and P2P services, service composition, adaptive services, data intensive services, service management: registry, reliability, XML processing, service modeling, business services: transaction, licensing, and SLA assessment, service discovery and selection, quality of service (policy, transaction and monitoring), business service modeling, service assembly, vision papers, experience with deployed SOA, SOA architectures, early adoption of SOA technology.
Part 1: Research Track Full Papers Service Mediation Requirements and Method for Assessment of Service Interoperability An Aspect-Oriented Framework for Service Adaptation Automated Generation of BPEL Adapters Grid Services and Scheduling Division of Labor: Tools for Growing and Scaling Grids DECO: Data Replication and Execution CO-scheduling for Utility Grids Coordinated Co-allocator Model for Data Grid in Multi-sender Environment Mobile and P2P Services Adaptive Preference Specifications for Application Sessions Mobile Ad Hoc Services: Semantic Service Discovery in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Discovering Web Services and JXTA Peer-to-Peer Services in a Unified Manner Service Composition A Hierarchical Framework for Composing Nested Web Processes Using Dynamic Asynchronous Aggregate Search for Quality Guarantees of Multiple Web Services Compositions Service Composition (re)Binding Driven by Application Specific QoS Design of Quality-Based Composite Web Services Adaptive Services AMPol-Q: Adaptive Middleware Policy to Support QoS Adaptive Web Processes Using Value of Changed Information SCENE: A Service Composition Execution Environment Supporting Dynamic Changes Disciplined Through Rules A Self-healing Web Server Using Differentiated Services Data Intensive Services Quality of Service Enabled Database Applications A Model-Based Framework for Developing and Deploying Data Aggregation Services Service Management:Registry,Reliability XML Processing Service Modeling Business Services:Transaction,Licensing and SLA Assessment Service Discovery and Selection Part 2:Research Track Short Papers Quality of Service(Policy,Transaction and Monitoring) Business Service Modeling Service Assembly Part 3:Industrial Track Vision and Full Papers Vision Papers Experience with Deployed SOA SOA Architectures Early Adoption of SOA Technoloogy Author Index