By Linda Terlouw | November 2, 2009

2nd International SOA symposium

October 22nd and 23th the 2nd International SOA symposium took place in the Word Trade Center in Rotterdam.
Let’s have a look at a short impression of these days.
Day 1
At 9.00 my former colleague Art Ligthart officially opened the conference. Next, Thomas Erl and Anne Thomas Manes gave their keynote lectures.
I followed Thomas and Anne [...]

By Linda Terlouw | October 12, 2008

The First International SOA Symposium

October 7 and 8 the First International SOA Symposium took place in the Amsterdam Arena (the soccer stadium, home of the Dutch soccer club Ajax). Let me give you a short impression of this event by describing the presentations I attended (providing just a very limited view!).

Thomas Erl (SOA Systems) opened the conference with [...]

By Linda Terlouw | October 12, 2008

Dutch National Architecture Conference

SOA track, Dutch National Architecture Conference (LAC)

By Linda Terlouw | October 12, 2008

CIAO! meeting, Antwerp

Meeting of the CIAO! doctoral consortium

By Linda Terlouw | June 13, 2008

The MVVEIS workshop at the ICEIS conference

Yesterday and today I was at the workshop about Modelling, Simulation, Verification and Validation of Enterprise Information Systems (MVVEIS) at the International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS). I was here to present my paper “Comparing Methodologies for Service-Orientation using the Generic System Development”.

I especially enjoyed the keynote presentation of Jean-Marie Favre titled “Engineering the [...]


Linda Terlouw works as an IT Architect in the field of SOA for Icris BV . She advises large corporations about the gradual migration towards a service-oriented way of thinking and the use of ESB technology for its technical implementation. Before starting Icris, Linda worked for several large companies like IBM and Ordina. Linda holds both an MSc in Computer Science and an MSc in Business Information Technology from the University of Twente. Currently she is pursuing a PhD in Computer Science at the Delft University of Technology. The focus of this research is the specification of services working from DEMO models. The research is part of the CIAO! Program.