Abstract
Quantum computing is quickly turning from a promise to reality, witnessing the launch of several cloud-based services that provide access to quantum resources, simulators, runtimes, and programming tools, all through the cloud. Unfortunately, however, existing solutions typically implicitly assume intimate knowledge about quantum computing concepts and operators. This vision paper introduces Quantum Service-Oriented Computing (QSOC), a model for building applications using a well-balanced mix of classical and quantum (hybrid) computing approaches. We propose a model-driven methodology that allows application developers, classical service developers, and quantum programmers to build hybrid enterprise applications collaboratively. As a result, quantum programmers and service developers can develop and publish quantum and classical components. At the same time, the application developers can discover, compose, configure and compose pre-built components to build and operate enterprise applications without intimate knowledge on the underlying quantum infrastructure, advocating knowledge reuse and separation of concerns.
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This paper has been supported by the European Union’ Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 825480, SODALITE.
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Kumara, I., Van Den Heuvel, WJ., Tamburri, D.A. (2021). QSOC: Quantum Service-Oriented Computing. In: Barzen, J. (eds) Service-Oriented Computing. SummerSOC 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1429. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87568-8_3
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