research-article

Towards SOA implementation complexity measurement enlightened by organization theory

Authors:

Jacky KeungAuthors Info & Claims

PROFES '10: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Product Focused Software

Pages 12 - 15

https://doi.org/10.1145/1961258.1961261

Published: 21 June 2010 Publication History

Abstract

When implementing information infrastructures to support business, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) based systems are inevitably more complex than traditional architecture based systems. Therefore, it is essential to measure the implementation complexity to avoid development that is unworthy of adopting SOA. However, there is little work that covers the SOA implementation complexity measurement with comprehensive analysis. By adopting existing work related to organizational complexity, this paper proposes a framework for comprehending and measuring the organizational complexity of SOA implementation, which comprises four dimensions: Structure, Environment, Business and Resource. Along each dimension, some SOA-compatible metrics have been extracted from the corresponding research on organizational complexity. More importantly, this proposed framework can be used for future work in proposing metrics for integrally and quantitatively calculating the complexity of implementing SOA.

References

[1]

McAuley, J., Duberley, J., and Johnson, P. 2007. Organization Theory: Challenges and Perspectives. Prentice Hall, England.

[2]

Service-Oriented Architecture Reference Model Technical Committee, Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards. 2006. A Reference Model for Service-Oriented Architecture. White Paper, Billerica, MA.

[3]

Rosen, M., Lublinsky, B., Smith, K. T., and Balcer, M. J. 2008. Applied SOA: Service-Oriented Architecture and Design Strategies. Wiley, Indianapolis, Indiana.

Digital Library

[4]

Papazoglou, M. P. and Heuvel W.-J. Service Oriented Architectures: Approaches, Technologies and Research Issues. VLDB J. 16 (Jul. 2007), 389--415.

Digital Library

[5]

Bakan, J. 2005. The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power. Free Press, New York.

[6]

Hirzalla, M., Cleland-Huang, J., and Arsanjani, A. 2009. A Metrics Suite for Evaluating Flexibility and Complexity in Service Oriented Architectures. In Service-Oriented Computing - ICSOC 2008 Workshops. LNCS 5472. Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg New York, 41--52.

Digital Library

[7]

Scherrer-Rathje, M., Arnoscht, J., Egri, P., Braun, E., Csáji, B. C., and Schuh, G. 2009. A Generic Model to Handle Complexity in Collaborative Networks. In Proceedings of Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology (Portland, Oregon, USA, August 2--6, 2009). PICMET '09. IEEE Computer Society, 271--287.

[8]

Dooley, K. 2002. Organizational Complexity. In: Warner, M. (ed.): International Encyclopedia of Business and Management. Thompson Learning, London, 5013--5022.

[9]

Goold, M. and Campbell, A. 2002. Designing Effective Organizations: How to Create Structured Networks. Wiley, New York.

[10]

Hornby, G. S. 2007. Measuring Complexity by Measuring Structure and Organization. In Proceedings of IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (Singapore, September 25--28, 2007) CEC 2007. IEEE Computer Society, 2017--2024.

[11]

Peng, Y., Liu, H., and Tao, H. 2009. Analyzing the Pathway of Organizational Change based on the Environmental Complexity. In Proceedings of 2009 International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Business Intelligence (Beijing, China, June 6--7, 2009) ECBI 2009. IEEE Computer Society, 463--466.

Digital Library

[12]

Peng, M. W. 2001. The Resource-based View and International Business. J. Manage. 27 (Sept. 2001), 803--829.

[13]

Siahpush, M. S. 1991. Empowering Structure in Organizations: Toward a Specification of the Resource Perspective. Soc. Sci. Res. 20 (Jun. 1991), 122--149.

[14]

Efstathiou, J., Calinescu, A., and Blackburn, G. 2002. A Web-based Expert System to Access the Complexity of Manufacturing Organizations. Robot. CIM-Int. Manuf. 18 (Jun.-Aug. 2002), 305--311.

[15]

Jamil, E. 2009. SOA in Asynchronous Many-to-One Heterogeneous Bi-Directional Data Synchronization for Mission Critical Applications. WeDoWebSphere. http://wedowebsphere.de/news/1528/-SOA%20in%20Asynchronous%20Many-toone%20Heterogeneous%20Bi-Directional%20Data%20Synchronization%20

[16]

Josuttis, N. M. 2007. SOA in Practice: The Art of Distributed System Design. O'Reilly Media, Inc., Sebastopol.

Digital Library

[17]

Cardoso, J. 2005. How to Measure the Control-Flow Complexity of Web Processes and Workflows. In Workflow Handbook 2005. Layna Fischer, 199--212.

[18]

Linthicum, D. 2007. How Much Will Your SOA Cost? SOAInstitute.org. http://www.soainstitute.org/articles/article/article/how-muchwill-your-soa-cost.html

[19]

Norfolk, D. 2007 SOA Innovation and Metrics. IT-Director.com. http://www.itdirector.com/business/change/content.php?cid=10146

[20]

Jiao, F., Hu, C., and Zhao, C. 2008. A Software Complexity Metric for SCA Specification. In Proceedings of International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering (Wuhan, China, December 12--14, 2008) CSSE 2008. IEEE Computer Society, 481--484.

Digital Library

Cited By

González-Rojas OLópez ACorreal D(2017)Multilevel complexity measurement in enterprise architecture modelsInternational Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing10.1080/0951192X.2017.130745330:12(1280-1300)Online publication date: 28-Mar-2017
https://doi.org/10.1080/0951192X.2017.1307453
Li ZO'Brien L(2011)A Qualitative Approach to Effort Judgment for Web Service Composition Based SOA ImplementationsProceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications10.1109/AINA.2011.20(586-593)Online publication date: 22-Mar-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/AINA.2011.20

Index Terms

Recommendations

Putting the organization back into computational organization theory: a complex Perrowian model of organizational action

At best, computational models that study organizations incorporate only one perspective of how organizations are known to act within their environments. Such single-perspective models are limited in their generalizability and applicability to the real ...
Models and Tools for SOA Governance
Trends in Enterprise Application Architecture
Abstract
Organizations are moving rapidly towards Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs). Benefits include cost reduction through reuse, better integration through standardization, and new business opportunities through agility. The successful ...
On the Relationship Between Organizational Complexity and Organizational Structuration

This article represents a contribution to the conceptualization of organizational complexity. The first part of the article relates the concept of complexity to the production tasks of the organization by deriving measures of the complexity of ...

Comments

Information & Contributors

Information

Published In

cover image ACM Conferences

PROFES '10: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Product Focused Software

June 2010

158 pages

ISBN:9781450302814

DOI:10.1145/1961258

General Chair:
Markku Oivo
University of Oulu, Finland
,
Program Chairs:
M. Ali Babar
IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
,
Matias Vierimaa
VTT, Oulu, Finland

Copyright © 2010 ACM.

Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than ACM must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from [email protected]

Sponsors

LERO: The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre
SIGSOFT: ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

Publication History

Published: 21 June 2010

Permissions

Request permissions for this article.

Request Permissions

Check for updates

Author Tags

Qualifiers

Research-article

Conference

Profes '10

Sponsor:

LERO
SIGSOFT

Profes '10: International Conference on Product Focused Software

June 21 - 23, 2010

Limerick, Ireland

Contributors

Other Metrics

View Article Metrics

Bibliometrics & Citations

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

2
Total Citations
View Citations
231
Total Downloads

Downloads (Last 12 months)0
Downloads (Last 6 weeks)0

Reflects downloads up to 05 Mar 2025

Other Metrics

View Author Metrics

Citations

Cited By

González-Rojas OLópez ACorreal D(2017)Multilevel complexity measurement in enterprise architecture modelsInternational Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing10.1080/0951192X.2017.130745330:12(1280-1300)Online publication date: 28-Mar-2017
https://doi.org/10.1080/0951192X.2017.1307453
Li ZO'Brien L(2011)A Qualitative Approach to Effort Judgment for Web Service Composition Based SOA ImplementationsProceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications10.1109/AINA.2011.20(586-593)Online publication date: 22-Mar-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/AINA.2011.20

View Options

Login options

Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.

Full Access

Get this Publication

View options

PDF

View or Download as a PDF file.

eReader

View online with eReader.

Figures

Tables

Media

View Table of Conten