SORCER

network. SORCER is often utilized in scenarios similar to those where grids are used (grid computing

United States Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). Other groups which have made use of SORCER include Beijing Jiaotong University in China, Cranfield University in the United Kingdom, and Ulyanovsk State University

neologism?] and a federated method invocation.^[1] The front-end services created by the end users are service collaborations of users' applications, tools, and utilities with their data and corresponding control strategies.^[2] The end users in understandable domain specific languages (DSL) define only their service-oriented process expressions and the SOS makes that process expressions actualized by the corresponding dynamic service federations in the network.^{[clarification needed}

neologism?] and related resources including required service providers. The SOOA kernel by itself is the service-oriented system made up of system service providers architecturally equivalent to domain specific service providers. A service provider is a container for service beans^{[clarification needed]} that is responsible for deploying services in the network, publishing their proxies to registries, and allowing the SOS to access proxies of deployed providers. Providers maintain their availability in the network continuously by renewing leases for their registered object proxies; registries intercept these announcements and cache/remove proxy objects per providers’ requests. The SOS looks up proxies by sending queries to registries and making selections from the currently available providers or provisions on-demand required ones.^[4]

neologism?] was developed at GE Global Research Center with the partners of the FIPER project (1999-2003). FIPER was used at that time to design aircraft engines.^[5][6][7] The Multidisciplinary Science and Technology Center, the United States Air Force Research Laboratory/WPAFB is using SORCER to address the physics-based distributed collaborative design for aerospace vehicle development.^[8][9][10] SORCER was selected for comparative study of evolutionary computing of optimization techniques at the Cranfield University, UK.^[11] In China, SORCER is used as noise mapping platform for urban traffic,^[12] a resource integration platform,^[13] engineering collaborative design and manufacturing environment,^[14][15] and at the Wright State University as a collaborative computational framework for multidisciplinary and reliability-based analysis and optimization.^[16]

Parker Hannifin Corporation (Mentor, OH), Engineous Software, Inc. (Cary, NC) and Ohio University (Athens, OH). When the project was finished M. Sobolewski established the SORCER Laboratory^{[19][non-primary source needed]} at Texas Tech University (2002-2009) where he continued his FIPER-based research. The SORCER Laboratory was partially funded by General Electric, Texas Tech University, Sun Microsystems, Air Force Research Laboratory, and others.^{[citation needed]} During that time 28 graduate research studies (M.S. and Ph.D.) were completed^{[citation needed]} all of which contributed to the development of the SORCER platform and the foundations of federated service-oriented computing. In the meantime, a number of collaborative SORCER-based projects (2007-2010) were realized together with universities from other countries (Beijing Jiaotong University, China^{[20][non-primary source needed]}; Beihang University, China^{[21][non-primary source needed]}; Ulyanovsk State University and Samara State Aerospace University, Russia^{[22][non-primary source needed}