5.4 Future Trends

	Adaptivity in service-based software systems is emerging as a crucial aspect beyond the area of service-based
	ASP infrastructures and on-demand information systems.

	Adaptability of services and their infrastructure is necessary to reconcile integration problems that arise in
	particular in dynamic and changing environments.

	The problem of semantic interoperability needs to be taken care of in future. Mappings between schemas might
	still represent the same semantic information. Recently, the widely investigated semantic Web services field with
	ontology-based domain and service models can provide input for some planned extensions in this direction.

	Re-engineering and the integration of legacy systems is another aspect that needs attention. The introduction of
	data transformation techniques for reengineering activities can improve the process of re-engineering legacy
	systems and adopting service-oriented architecture to manage the information technology services.

Business rules often change rapidly, requiring the integration of legacy systems to deliver a new service.

	How to handle the information integration in the context of service management needs to be exploited in
	sufficient detail in the context of transformation and re-engineering.