Position Statement: Services Computing: Foundational Discipline of the Modern Services Science

摘要

Services now account for more than 70% of the U.S. economy. Services Computing has become a foundational discipline that covers the science and technology of services innovation research that leverages IT and computing technology to model, create, and manage business solutions, scientific applications, as well as modernized services. The underneath technology suite includes Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), business consulting methodology and utilities, business process modeling, transformation and integration, and Web services. Figure 1 illustrates the scope of Services Computing covers the whole lifecycle of services innovation research from computing and software perspectives that include business componentization, services modeling, services creation, services realization, services annotation, services deployment, services discovery, services composition, services delivery, service-to-service collaboration, services monitoring, services optimization, as well as services management.