Handbook of Service Description : USDL and Its Methods

Intro -- Handbook of Service escription -- Preface -- The Positioning of Services -- The Need for Explicit Service Descriptions -- About USDL -- About the Book -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Chapter 1 The Internet of Services and USDL -- 1.1 Services Sector: Key Driver of Developed Economies -- 1.2 Intense Research During the Past Years -- 1.3 The Internet of Services - Basic Concepts -- 1.3.1 The Digital Footprint of Services -- 1.3.2 Complementing the Service-Oriented Architecture paradigm -- 1.3.3 Software Applications and Services -- 1.3.4 Applying the Internet Economy to the Services Sector -- 1.4 The Uni ed Service Description Language -- 1.5 Strategic Implications -- References -- Part I State of the Art -- Chapter 2 Product-Service System Approaches A Business Perspective on Service Modeling -- 2.1 The Need for Conceptual Modeling of Services -- 2.1.1 The Trend Towards Service -- 2.1.2 Beyond Goods and Services: Customer Solutions as Value Offers -- 2.1.3 Product-Service Systems -- 2.1.4 Analysis of Conceptual Modeling Approaches for Services -- 2.2 The Interdisciplinary Study of PSS Conceptual Modeling: Extracting Concepts -- 2.2.1 Conceptual Modeling and Languages -- 2.2.2 Extracting Concepts from PSS Research Disciplines -- 2.3 A Review of the Status-quo of PSS Conceptual Modeling and Perspectives to Service Description -- 2.3.1 Identifying Relevant Modeling Languages -- 2.3.2 Review of PSS Modeling Languages -- Molecular Model / Service Blueprinting -- SeeMe -- SADT -- ARIS / Model-based Service System Engineering -- Coloured Petri Nets for Service Simulation (CPN) -- Method for systematic development of product-oriented services -- STEP / EXPRESS-G -- 2.4 Discussion, Limitation and Outlook -- References -- Chapter 3 Service Network Approaches -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Comparison Framework.