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On Business Services Representation – The 3 X 3 X 3 Approach, Lam-Son Lê, Hoa Khanh Dam, Aditya Ghose Nov 2012

On Business Services Representation – The 3 X 3 X 3 Approach, Lam-Son Lê, Hoa Khanh Dam, Aditya Ghose

Dr Lam-Son Le

The increasing popularity and influence of service-oriented computing give rise to the need of representational and methodological supports for the development and management of business services. From an IT perspective, there is a proliferation of methods and languages for representing Web services. Unfortunately, there has not been much work in modeling high-level services from a business perspective. Modeling business services should arguably capture their inherent features, along with many other representational artifacts. We propose a novel approach for business services representation featuring a three-dimensional representational space of which dimensions stand for the service consumer, service provider and service context. We …


Services For Business Processes In Ea – Are They In Relation?, Lam-Son Lê Nov 2012

Services For Business Processes In Ea – Are They In Relation?, Lam-Son Lê

Dr Lam-Son Le

Business services arguably play a central role in service-based information systems as they would fill in the gap between the technicality of Service-Oriented Architecture and the business processes captured in Enterprise Architecture. Business services have distinctive features that are not typically observed in plain Web services. The representation of business services requires that we view human activity and human-mediated functionality through the lens of computing and systems engineering. We give insights into the modeling of business services and relationships between them. This work sheds light on the analysis, design and reusability of business-aware services that business owners, entrepreneurs and business …