Advice to Service-Oriented Computing Research Students (Invited Talk) Marlon Dumas 0 University of Tartu, Estonia and Queensland University of Technology , Australia marlon . dumas @ ut.ee

Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) is a study eld at the crossroads of several other elds, such as software engineering, information systems, databases, distributed computing and Internet computing. It is also a rather dynamic eld since it is constantly being reshaped by ongoing industrial developments. As a result, SOC is by no means an easy eld to undertake a PhD project. This talk will discuss a number of factors that PhD students in the eld need to be mindful of when scoping, planning and executing their project.

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