Service Oriented Collaborative Network Architecture

A service-oriented collaborative network (SOCN) supports collaboration among a network of organizations through their shared business services. SOCN in comparison with traditional collaborative networks, promotes and simplifies reusability and interconnection of shared software services, in a distributed manner. Our work contributes to comprehensive support of software service oriented collaboration among networked organizations enabling semi-automated service discovery, selection, and composition in collaborative environments. With the help of an organizational monitoring tool, we improve the accuracy of claimed characteristics based on non-functional criteria of services. The reference framework and implementation architecture are defined in this paper to support implementing SOCN.