Handbook of Service Description USDL and Its Methods /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Barros, Alistair (Editor), Oberle, Daniel (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Information technology.; Business > Data processing.; Programming languages (Electronic computers).; Application software.; Engineering economics.; Engineering economy.; Electrical engineering.; Computer Science.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; IT in Business.; Electrical Engineering.; Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters.; Computer Applications.; Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 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?.