Abstract
A prominent research focus, especially in the context of EU public funding, has been the systematic use of the Internet for new ways of value creation in the services sector. This idea of service networks in the Internet, frequently dubbed the Internet of Services orWeb service ecosystems, wants to make services tradable in digital media. In order to enable communication and trade between providers and consumers of services, the Internet of Services requires a standard that creates a “commercial envelope” around a service. This is where the Unified Service Description Language (USDL) comes into play as a normative and balanced unification of service information. The unified description established by USDL is machineprocessable, considers technical and business aspects of a service as well as functional and non-functional attributes.
Access provided by Autonomous University of Puebla. Download to read the full chapter text
Chapter PDF
Similar content being viewed by others
Keywords
These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
References
Grundstruktur für die Beschreibung von Dienstleistungen in der Ausschreibungsphase. PAS 1018:2002-12, Deutsches Institut für Normung (DIN), Beuth Verlag, Berlin, 2002.
Succeeding through service innovation: A service perspective for education, research, business and government. A white paper based on cambridge service science, management and engineering symposium, IfM and IBM, University of Cambridge Institute for Manufacturing (IfM) and International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), 2008. www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/ssme.
S. Alter. Service system fundamentals: work system, value chain, and life cycle. IBM Systems Journal, 47(1):71–85, 2008.
C. Anderson. The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More. Hyperion, 2006.
K. Backhaus, J. Becker, D. Beverungen, M. Frohs, R. Knackstedt, O. Müller, M. Steiner, and M. Weddeling. Vermarktung hybrider Leistungsbündel. Springer, Heidelberg, 2010.
A. Barros and U. Kylau. Service delivery framework — an architectural strategy for nextgeneration service delivery in business network. In P. Kellenberger, editor, Proceedings 2011 Annual SRII Global Conference SRII 2011, 30 March - 2 April 2011, San Jose, California, USA, pages 47–58. IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services (CPS), 2011.
A. P. Barros and M. Dumas. The rise of web service ecosystems. IT Professional, 8(5):31–37, 2006.
B. Blau, C. van Dinther, T. Conte, Y. Xu, and C. Weinhardt. How to coordinate value generation in service networks. Business & Information Systems Engineering, 1(5):343–356, 2009.
B. Bygstad and T.-M. Grønli. Service oriented architecture and business innovation. In 44th Hawaii International International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS-44 2011), Proceedings, 4-7 January 2011, Koloa, Kauai, HI, USA, pages 1–10. IEEE Computer Society, 2011.
H. Chesbrough and J. Spohrer. A research manifesto for services science. Commun. ACM, 49(7):35–40, 2006.
P. A. David andW. E. Steinmueller. Economics of compatibility standards and competition in telecommunication networks. Information Economics and Policy, 6:217–241, 1994.
R. Ferrario and N. Guarino. Towards an ontological foundation for services science. In J. Domingue, D. Fensel, and P. Traverso, editors, Future Internet - FIS 2008, First Future Internet Symposium, FIS 2008, Vienna, Austria, September 29-30, 2008, Revised Selected Papers, volume 5468 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 152–169. Springer, 2008.
D. Hilkert, C. M. Wolf, A. Benlian, and T. Hess. The ‘as-a-service’-paradigm and its implications for the software industry - insights from a comparative case study in crm software ecosystems. In P. Tyrväinen, S. Jansen, and M. A. Cusumano, editors, Software Business - First International Conference, ICSOB 2010, Jyväskylä, Finland, June 21-23, 2010. Proceedings, volume 51 of Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, pages 125–137. Springer, 2010.
H. Kagermann and H. Ö sterle. Geschäftsmodelle 2010. Wie CEOs Unternehmen transformieren. Frankfurter Allgemeine Buch, Frankfurt am Main, 2nd edition, 2006.
S. Krings, editor. Statistisches Jahrbuch 2010 für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland mit Internationalen Ü bersichten. Statistisches Bundesamt, Wiesbaden, Germany, 2010.
P. Krugman. Scale economies, product differentiation, and the pattern of trade. The American Economic Review, 70(5):950–959, DEC 1980.
K. Lischka. Internet der Zukunft—Im Netz der Giganten. Spiegel Online, JAN 2010.
J. C. Panzar and R. D. Willig. Economies of scope. The American Economic Review, 71(2):268–272, May 1981.
R. Parasuraman and M. Mouloua. Automation and Human Performance: Theory and Applications. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, NJ, USA, 1996.
G. Richardson. The organisation of industry. Economic Journal, 82(327):883–896, 1972.
P. Satchell. Innovation and Automation. Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, England, 1998.
J. Spohrer, S. L. Vargo, N. Caswell, and P. P. Maglio. The service system is the basic abstraction of service science. In 41st Hawaii International International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS-41 2008), Proceedings, 7-10 January 2008, Waikoloa, Big Island, HI, USA, page 104. IEEE Computer Society, 2008.
J. C. Spohrer, P. P. Maglio, J. H. Bailey, and D. Gruhl. Steps toward a science of service systems. IEEE Computer, 40(1):71–77, 2007.
J. Tas and S. Sunder. Financial services business process outsourcing. Commun. ACM, 47(5):50–52, 2004.
O. Terzidis, A. Fasse, B. Flügge, M. Heller, K. Kadner, D. Oberle, and T. Sandfuchs. Texo:Wie THESEUS das Internet der Dienste gestaltet — Perspektiven der Verwertung. In L. Heuser and W. Wahlster, editors, Internet der Dienste, acatech diskutiert, pages 141–161. Springer, 2011.
S. Wardley. Innovation, the future and why nothing is ever simple. In FOWA Expo. Future of Web Apps. London., 2008.
D. Woods, L. Heuser, and C. Alsdorf, editors. International Research Forum 2008. Evolved Technologist Press, 2009.
J.Word. Business Network Transformation: Strategies to Reconfigure Your Business Relationships for Competitive Advantage. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA, 2009.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2012 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Terzidis, O., Oberle, D., Friesen, A., Janiesch, C., Barros, A. (2012). The Internet of Services and USDL. In: Barros, A., Oberle, D. (eds) Handbook of Service Description. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1864-1_1
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1864-1_1
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Boston, MA
Print ISBN: 978-1-4614-1863-4
Online ISBN: 978-1-4614-1864-1
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)