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In the August issue of Computer
As computer-based systems transition to a service oriented paradigm, they still must be highly reliable, secure, available, timely, fault-tolerant, and dependable. Unfortunately, it might be even harder to achieve these high assurance requirements in service oriented systems because, unlike traditional systems, services can be designed in-house or delivered by third parties. In this issue, we present five articles that explore the latest research in high-assurance service oriented architectures.
>>See the full table of contents for the August issue.



Features August 2008 Guest Editors’ IntroductionHigh-Assurance Service-Oriented Architectures Jing Dong, University of Texas at Dallas; Raymond A. Paul, US Department of Defense: Liang-Jie Zhang, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center