A services-oriented platform for synergisation of research and development strengths

There have been many R&D projects conducted under PPSKOMP (School of Computer Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia) since its establishment in 1995 until today. In PPSKOMP, there are eight major research groups established, which are: Artificial Intelligence Lab, Computer Aided Translation Unit, Computer Vision Research Group, Health Information Research Group, Information Systems Engineering, Multimedia Research Group, Network Research Group, and Parallel and Distributed Computing. Many knowledge resources and processing components have been developed by researchers and available in each of this research group. However, these resources are resided and accessible only in respective research group and mostly developed using different methodologies, paradigm and platform. In this paper, we present a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) framework which capable to resolve this problem and enable the synergisation of research and development strengths in PPSKOMP.