Advanced service creation using distributed object technology

Abstract

Rapid technological developments are taking place in computing and telecommunications that provide a wide range of opportunities for the delivery of new advanced multimedia services (telematic services). In this context information networking has a central role, and telecommunications service engineering emerges as an important new scientific discipline. This article examines important issues that underpin the creation of telematic services in a highly competitive environment of service provisioning. The starting point is the proposal of a telecommunications service engineering framework consisting of a service development methodology, a service creation environment, and a service support environment, that considers telematic services as distributed object-oriented applications operating on distributed object platforms. Then the article focuses on the presentation and examination of a complete methodology for the development of telematic services, that "covers" in a systematic and structured manner the entire service creation process. Finally, the proposed methodology is validated by applying it to the design and development of a complex representative telematic service.

Automatic service derivation from business process model repositories via semantic technology

“…For instance, Adamopoulos et al [3] as well as Chang and Kim [4] propose methods to employ a general analysis of service requirements as starting point for service derivation. Similarly, Arsanjani and Allam [38] propose a three-step approach for deriving service candidates from different business capabilities.…”

“…Among others, these approaches leverage requirements documents [3,4], different types of conceptual models [5,6,7], and source code [8,9,10]. Due to their general availability, particularly process models have turned out as a valuable source for identifying services.…”

Integrated service creation environment for open network services

“…7. Supporting full service creation process: As described in Section 2, service creation has three phases at minimum-the service design phase, the service implementation phase, and the service validation phase [17]. Our SCE support all phases, while some existing SCE do not cover all.…”

A Transversal Alignment between Measurements and Enterprise Architecture for Early Verification of Telecom Service Design

“…Their approach doesn't have support for structural elements representation while limited to the behavioral ones. Their approach seems to depend on one abstraction level of measuring capability, while we use probes to obtain data from different layers of EA; -The work presented in [6] addresses the same scope of service creation activity. They propose a methodology that takes into consideration the customer and service provider requirements.…”

“…The aim of the verification activity is to "check that the software meets its stated functional and non-functional requirements" [21]. The Service Creation Environment (SCE) [6] is a collection of software tools that rely on reuse infrastructure used according to the service development methodology, to assist the service developer(s) by automating and simplifying the Service Creation process.…”