A unified description language for human to automated services
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30/06/2012
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Through the rise of cloud computing, on-demand applications, and business networks, services are increasingly being exposed and delivered on the Internet and through mobile communications. So far, services have mainly been described through technical interface descriptions. The description of business details, such as pricing, service-level, or licensing, has been neglected and is therefore hard to automatically process by service consumers. Also, third-party intermediaries, such as brokers, cloud providers, or channel partners, are interested in the business details in order to extend services and their delivery and, thus, further monetize services. In this paper, the constructivist design of the UnifiedServiceDescriptionLanguage (USDL), aimed at describing services across the human-to-automation continuum, is presented. The proposal of USDL follows well-defined requirements which are expressed against a common service discourse and synthesized from currently available servicedescription efforts. USDL's concepts and modules are evaluated for their support of the different requirements and use cases. |
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Pergamon - Elsevier Ltd |
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DOI:10.1016/j.is.2012.06.004 Oberle, Daniel, Barros, Alistair P., Kylau, Uwe, & Heinzl, Steffen (2012) A unified description language for human to automated services. Information Systems: databases: their creation, management and utilization. |
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Copyright 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. |
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School of Information Systems; Science & Engineering Faculty |
Palavras-Chave | #080600 INFORMATION SYSTEMS #Service #Service description language #Business networks #Service networks |
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Journal Article |