An evaluation of service frameworks for the management of service ecosystems

Ravi Khadka*, Amir Saeidi, Slinger Jansen, Jurriaan Hage, Remko Helms

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Abstract

A service ecosystem is a marketplace for trading services in which services are developed, published, sold and used. Service ecosystems have changed the way of service delivery and service consumption among actors/parties, who perform specific roles for the operation of the ecosystems. Such actors, being service providers, consumers, mediators and intermediaries, ensure the livelihood of the ecosystem. However, the role of the service infrastructure provider, one of the actors of the service ecosystem, is still not being explored sufficiently. The service infrastructure provider provides service infrastructures/frameworks upon which other actors of the service ecosystem operate. In this paper, an evaluation framework for the service framework is defined, which is based on the features that are required for a service ecosystem to thrive. The evaluation framework is used to evaluate three opensource service frameworks. The evaluation framework facilities the selection process of a service framework among the largely available ones.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of 15th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS 2011)
Publication statusPublished - 2011
Externally publishedYes
Event15th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems: Quality Research in Pacific - Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Duration: 7 Jul 201111 Jul 2011
Conference number: 15

Conference

Conference15th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems: Quality Research in Pacific
Abbreviated titlePACIS 2011
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CityBrisbane, QLD
Period7/07/1111/07/11

Keywords

  • Apaches Axis2 web service framework
  • Petals web service framework
  • Service ecosystem
  • Service frameworks
  • SOA
  • WSO2 web service framework

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