Services Computing

This book bridges the gap between Business and IT services. It describes research results in Web services and service-oriented architecture (SOA); business consulting methodology and utilities; and business process modeling, transformation, integration, and management. Major solution architectures, technologies and research methods are discussed in the lifecycle of services innovation research, including business componentization; services modeling, creation, realization, annotation, deployment, discovery, composition and delivery; service-to-service collaboration; and services monitoring, optimization, and management. The book provides readers with new research and solution methods to enable IT services and computing technology to better create and manage business services, which is the goal of Services Computing. As the core technical foundation for the modern services science, Services Computing covers the science, technology and business models of effectively creating and leveraging computing technology to bridge the gap between business and IT services. This book systematically introduces the fundamentals of this new discipline based on the latest research results in web services and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA); business consulting methodology and utilities; business process modeling, transformation, integration, and management; and services as software, software as service, and Web 2.0 for effective services delivery. Major solution architectures, technologies and research methods are discussed in the lifecycle of services innovation research. This book provides readers with new research and solution methods to better create and manage business services, which is the goal of Services Computing. Dr. Liang-Jie Zhang was the Chief Architect of Industrial Standards at IBM Software Group from 2004 to 2005, and is the current leader of an IBM SOA solution design and modeling tool and the co-leader of an IBM-wide SOA Solution Stack project. He is the father of Services Computing. Front Matter....Pages i-xv Front Matter....Pages 1-1 The Principle of Services and Services Computing....Pages 3-19 e-Business Evolution....Pages 20-36 Web Services Modeling....Pages 37-63 Web Services Publishing and Discovery....Pages 64-88 Service-Oriented Architecture....Pages 89-113 Services Relationship Modeling....Pages 114-133 SOA and Web Services Standards....Pages 134-151 Solution-Level Quality of Service in SOA....Pages 152-170 Front Matter....Pages 171-171 Requirements Driven Services Composition....Pages 173-194 Services Value Chain Collaboration....Pages 195-223 Business Process Management and Integration....Pages 224-242 Business Grid....Pages 243-256 Front Matter....Pages 257-257 Enterprise Modeling....Pages 259-274 Project Based Enterprise Performance Management....Pages 275-295 Service-Oriented Business Consulting Methodology....Pages 296-309 End-to-End Services Delivery Platform and Methodology....Pages 310-329 Software as Services and Services as Software....Pages 330-343 Back Matter....Pages 345-349 This book bridges the gap between Business and IT services and proposes an original life-cycle view of the modern service industry. Major solution architectures, technologies and research methods are discussed in the lifecycle of services innovation research. The book provides readers with new research and solution methods to enable IT services and computing technology to better create and manage business services, which is the goal of Services Computing.