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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779040903321

Titolo

Handbook of Service Description [[electronic resource] ] : USDL and Its Methods / / edited by Alistair Barros, Daniel Oberle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Springer New York : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2012

ISBN

1-280-79312-0

9786613703514

1-4614-1864-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2012.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (554 p.)

Disciplina

300

Soggetti

Application software

Information technology

Business—Data processing

Electrical engineering

Programming languages (Electronic computers)

Engineering economics

Engineering economy

Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)

IT in Business

Electrical Engineering

Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters

Computer Applications

Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

The Internet of Services and USDL -- Product-Service System Approaches -- Service Network Approaches -- Service System Approaches -- SOA Approaches -- SemanticWeb Services Fundamentals -- Semantic Web Services Approaches -- Design Overview of USDL -- Service Pricing -- Service Licensing -- Service Functionality and Behavior -- Service Levels, Security, and Trust.-Modeling Foundations -- Representing USDL for Humans and Tools -- Enabling USDL by Tools -- Supporting USDL by a Governance



Framework -- Managing Variants of USDL -- Case Studies -- Experience Report on Real-World Manual Service Modeling in USDL -- Requirements for a Service Description Language—Findings from a Delphi Study -- How Complete is the USDL?.

Sommario/riassunto

With the growth in number and sophistication of services widely available, there is a new urgency for comprehensive service descriptions that take into account both technical and business aspects. The last years have seen a number of efforts for best-of-breed service description focusing on specific aspects of services. The Handbook of Service Description provides the most advanced state of the art insights into these. The main parts of the book provide the most detailed documentation of the  Unified Service Description Language (USDL) to date. USDL has been developed across several research institutes and publicly funded projects across Europe and Australia, currently extending to the Americas as part of a standardization push through W3C. The scope of services extends across IT and business, i.e., the socio-technical sense of services scaled to business networks. In this respect, purely human, purely automated and mixed human/automated services were considered, that have a boundary of cognizance that is available through the tasks of service provisioning, discovery, access and delivery. Taken together, the Handbook of Service Description provides a comprehensive reference suitable for a wide-reaching audience including researchers, practitioners, managers, and students who aspire to learn about or to create a deeper scientific foundation for service description and its methodological aspects.