Agile properties of service oriented architectures for network enabled capability.

Network Enabled Capability (NEC) is the U.K.
Ministry of Defence’s response to the quickly changing
conflict environment in which its forces must operate. In
NEC, assets need to be integrated in context, to assist in
human activity and provide dependable inter-operation.
Different from traditional system engineering for the
development of hardware equipments or software
engineering for the development of software systems,
NEC raises new challenges not only for service
development on Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), but
also for dynamic discovery and integration of services in
order to provide dependable and sustainable military
capability. In this paper we introduce and discuss our
research work in the NECTISE (NEC Through Innovative
Systems Engineering) project with a focus on the use of
agile methodologies to adapt to changes occurring in the
process of service development, service discovery and
service integration. We demonstrate through examples
how to enable agile SOA for NEC.

Obtained the Best Paper Award of the Conference.