Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) and SOC systems have been invented, studied, and developed in response to the problems generated by heterogeneity and poor latency, and a need for modularization and standardization. Wide application of SOC, practically in all areas of human endeavors, interconnectivity provided by wireless networks, huge volumes and diversity of data, increased frequency of security attacks, and reliability expectations have increased research, development, and deployment of SOC systems. These circumstances and requirements could only be dealt with by a future generation of SOC systems. This implies a need for fast and high-quality research and wide and efficient dissemination of achieved innovative results. Therefore, a Special Issue (SI) was proposed, and its relevant scope defined. This SI involves a set of high-quality and cross-community scientific papers from various disciplines (e.g., cloud computing, edge computing, business process management). The accepted papers focus on research leading toward future generation of service-oriented computing systems (e.g., dynamic quality of service management in fog computing, time-aware resources allocation in cloud computing, resilient composition in the Internet of Things) with emphasis on advanced results that solve open research problems and have significant impact on the field of service-oriented computing.

响应于由异质性和较差的延迟以及对模块化和标准化的需求所产生的问题，已经发明，研究和开发了面向服务的计算（SOC）和SOC系统。SOC的广泛应用，实际上是在人类努力的所有领域，无线网络提供的互连性，数据的数量和多样性，安全攻击的频率增加以及对可靠性的期望，都增加了SOC系统的研究，开发和部署。这些情况和要求只能由下一代SOC系统来处理。这意味着需要进行快速，高质量的研究，并广泛有效地传播已取得的创新成果。因此，提出了一个特刊（SI），并定义了其相关范围。该SI涉及来自各个学科（例如，云计算，边缘计算，业务流程管理）的一组高质量和跨社区的科学论文。被接受的论文专注于导致面向未来的面向服务的计算系统的研究（例如，雾计算中的动态服务质量管理，云计算中的时间感知资源分配，物联网中的弹性组合），并着重于先进的结果解决开放研究问题并对面向服务的计算领域产生重大影响。