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Meta‐service support for the business process life cycle
Author(s) -
Schmidt Rainer
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of software: evolution and process
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.371
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 2047-7481
pISSN - 2047-7473
DOI - 10.1002/smr.552
Subject(s) - provisioning , computer science , services computing , process management , service (business) , process (computing) , business process , industrialization of services business model , web service , business process modeling , world wide web , business , telecommunications , work in process , marketing , operating system
SUMMARY Business processes more and more use services. Therefore, during the business process, life cycle services have to be managed. They have to be defined, deployed, operated, and evaluated. Meta‐services are an approach to systematically and homogenously manage services during the business process life cycle. The idea of meta‐services is to capture the functionality to manage the services during the life cycle in turn as services. Meta‐services provide a symmetrical management approach to services. Using meta‐services provides a uniform interface for service provisioning and management and thus avoids redundant structures. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.