By Linda Terlouw | October 19, 2008

A Business-Oriented Specification for Services

This is the abstract of my article for the CIAO workshop at the CAISE conference. Please let me know if you would like to read the complete article (published by Springer).

By far the best known standard for registering and searching for services is the UDDI. A great weakness of this standard is its technology-driven way of specifying services; it is still inadequate for specifying the majority of aspects that are relevant from a business point of view. This stands in sharp contrast to the main premises of SOA, i.e. increased flexibility by the reuse of services and better business/IT-alignment by speaking the same language. A more comprehensive approach to specifying services is the business component specification framework. One of the aspects that needs to be specified according to this framework are the business tasks. The framework, however, does not define precisely what a task is and how a task should be identified. In this paper we propose taking the enterprise ontology as a starting point for specifying these tasks. Furthermore, we demonstrate our approach using a life insurance company case.

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  1. Peter Jaspers Focks - 02/4/2009 at 4:44 pm

    Vandaag contact gehad met Eric Jan Malotaux, die ons attendeerde op de site.

    Alvast bedankt voor de moeite,

    Peter

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Linda Terlouw works as an IT Architect in the field of SOA for Icris BV . She advises large corporations about the gradual migration towards a service-oriented way of thinking and the use of ESB technology for its technical implementation. Before starting Icris, Linda worked for several large companies like IBM and Ordina. Linda holds both an MSc in Computer Science and an MSc in Business Information Technology from the University of Twente. Currently she is pursuing a PhD in Computer Science at the Delft University of Technology. The focus of this research is the specification of services working from DEMO models. The research is part of the CIAO! Program.

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