API Terms and Conditions as a Service

Vuković, Maja; Laredo, Jim; Rajagopal, Sriram

doi:10.1109/scc.2014.58

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“…For one such domain, the presented work can be very useful in business negotiation scenarios like contracts management or using software where multiple parties are involved and can have different vantage points (mental models) for discussion. There has been some work on analyzing contracts for identifying gaps (Desai et al, 2008) and terms of conditions for software services (Vukovic et al, 2014) but they do not consider parties' mental models. Finally, we aim to further enhance and refine the CPF such that it can be used to capture and reason about more complex domains than the presented blocks world, such as described in Barker-Plummer et al (2017); Johnson et al (2016) and how agents may interact with them.…”

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Toward Cognitive and Immersive Systems: Experiments in a Cognitive Microworld

Peveler,

Govindarajulu,

Bringsjord

et al. 2017

Preprint

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As computational power has continued to increase, and sensors have become more accurate, the corresponding advent of systems that are at once cognitive and immersive has arrived. These cognitive and immersive systems (CAISs) fall squarely into the intersection of AI with HCI/HRI: such systems interact with and assist the human agents that enter them, in no small part because such systems are infused with AI able to understand and reason about these humans and their knowledge, beliefs, goals, communications, plans, etc. We herein explain our approach to engineering CAISs. We emphasize the capacity of a CAIS to develop and reason over a "theory of the mind" of its human partners. This capacity entails that the AI in question has a sophisticated model of the beliefs, knowledge, goals, desires, emotions, etc. of these humans. To accomplish this engineering, a formal framework of very high expressivity is needed. In our case, this framework is a cognitive event calculus, a particular kind of quantified multi-operator modal logic, and a matching high-expressivity automated reasoner and planner. To explain, advance, and to a degree validate our approach, we show that a calculus of this type satisfies a set of formal requirements, and can enable a CAIS to understand a psychologically tricky scenario couched in what we call the cognitive polysolid framework (CPF). We also formally show that a room that satisfies these requirements can have a useful property we term expectation of usefulness. CPF, a sub-class of cognitive microworlds, includes machinery able to represent and plan over not merely blocks and actions (such as seen in the primitive "blocks worlds" of old), but also over agents and their mental attitudes about both other agents and inanimate objects.

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Toward Cognitive and Immersive Systems: Experiments in a Cognitive Microworld

Peveler,

Govindarajulu,

Bringsjord

et al. 2017

Preprint

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“…It stores temporal information about when entities and relationships were created and possibly deleted, allowing insights into the evolution of API ecosystems. On the other hand, in [22] they present a data model for API terms of service that captures a set of non-functional properties of APIs and allows for terms and conditions to be automatically assessed and composed. Later, in [23] they define a formal representation of service license description that facilitates automated license generation and composition.…”

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An Analysis of RESTful APIs Offerings in the Industry

Gamez-Diaz

Fernández

Ruiz–Cortés

2017

Service-Oriented Computing

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As distribution models of information systems are moving to XaaS paradigms, microservices architectures are rapidly emerging, having the RESTful principles as the API model of choice. In this context, the term of API Economy is being used to describe the increasing movement of the industries in order to take advantage of exposing their APIs as part of their service offering and expand its business model. Currently, the industry is adopting standard specifications such as Ope-nAPI to model the APIs in a standard way following the RESTful principles; this shift has supported the proliferation of API execution platforms (API Gateways) that allow the XaaS to optimize their costs. However, from a business point of view, modeling offering plans of those APIs is mainly done ad-hoc (or in a platform-dependent way) since no standard model has been proposed. This lack of standardization hinders the creation of API governance tools in order to provide and automate the management of business models in the XaaS industry. This work presents a systematic analysis of 69 XaaS in the industry that offer RESTful APIs as part of their business model. Specifically, we review in detail the plans that are part of the XaaS offerings that could be used as a first step to identify the requirements for the creation of an expressive governance model of realistic RESTful APIs. Additionally, we provide an open dataset in order to enable further analysis in this research line.

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“…We identify that there is a gap of the refinement from the strategic business planning to ubiquitous services 18 implementation especially in the API (Application Program Interface) 31 economy trend.…”

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Refinement on Data, Information and Knowledge Lifecycles towards Service Economics Planning to Services Implementation

Duan¹,

Hu²,

Sun³

et al. 2016

IJNDC

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Service Economics has been successfully proposed and implemented for promoting the macro service market especially in Global value chains which however don't provide guidance to and integrate directly with the IT side implementation to achieve coherent information coordination and robust adaptability which indicts maximization of business profitability. Therefore there leaves a gap of the refinement from the strategic business planning to ubiquitous services implementation in the API (Application Program Interface) economy. Recently Gio Wiederhold attributed this gap to the knowledge difference between economists and the IT professionals and proposed that IT professionals should act to fill the gap since they have irreplaceable data, information and knowledge concerning the specific implementation. As an instance of this guidance in the practice of Value Driven Design, we proposed a systemic formalization from the value calculation to the design quality measurement which binds the modification and change on the design artifacts with the business value strategy through a framework of managed quality properties in a service design process covering data, information and knowledge assets.

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API Terms and Conditions as a Service

Cited by 11 publications

References 7 publications

Toward Cognitive and Immersive Systems: Experiments in a Cognitive Microworld

Toward Cognitive and Immersive Systems: Experiments in a Cognitive Microworld

An Analysis of RESTful APIs Offerings in the Industry

Refinement on Data, Information and Knowledge Lifecycles towards Service Economics Planning to Services Implementation

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