Karakostas B., Zorgios Y. Engineering Service Oriented Systems: A Model Driven Approach

IGI Global, 2008, 374 pages, ISBN: 1599049686Despite pressures of economic slowdown and the e-commerce bubble burst, moving towards e-services is a compelling necessity for todays organizations. Companies that are reluctant to adopt a service oriented architecture in their IT systems will be missing out on unprecedented opportunities to create business value with relatively small IT investments.Engineering Service Oriented Systems: A Model-Driven Approach combines concepts from systems theory, model driven software engineering, and ontologies for software engineering into a systematic method for engineering service oriented systems while integrating both business and software perspectives.This book is a proposal for the convolution of two, so far separate, practices namely, business service design and electronic services (e-services) engineering. Businesses are under constant pressure to design and deliver new, innovative and profitable services. Increasingly, such services are implemented entirely in software. The work presented in this book is based on the premise that business services need to be supported by an equally service-oriented IT infrastructure. Moreover, the book argues that the service-oriented paradigm is a gateway to the integration of the IT infrastructure with the business operational environment, across the value chain of the organization, and helps to redefine the strategic role of information systems in today’s competitive environment.The book takes a business oriented starting point and proposes methods to engineer electronic services that leverage an organization’s resources and deliver added value to shareholders, customers and business partners. Business service models originate in the organization’s strategies and synthesize its value chain (Porter, 1985). They are, in turn, transformed into operational services that are delivered through networks of coordinated Web services to consumers. Such Web services, i.e. remotely accessible software applications, need to operate within a service-oriented infrastructure that provides secure service delivery, monitoring and continuous adaptation and enhancement.Introduction to Services
Service Concepts
Standards for Web Services
Service Coordination
Model-Driven Service Engineering
Ontologies for Model-Driven Service Engineering
A Methodology for Model-Driven Service Engineering Based on IDEF
Service Deployment Execution and Management
A Platform for Model-Driven Service Engineering
A Case Study of Business Service Realization: Account Receivables—Account Payables
An Overview and Summary