Service domains

• Published in: IBM systems journal Vol. 43; no. 4; pp. 734 - 755
• Main Authors: Tan, Y.-S., Vellanki, V., Xing, J., Topol, B., Dudley, G.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Armonk International Business Machines Corporation 01.01.2004
• Subjects: Customer services; Distributed processing; Interfaces; Internet service providers; Inventory control; Knowledge management; Logic; Network topologies; Portfolio management; Quality of service; Software; Studies; Web services; United States > US

In this paper we introduce the concept of service domain, to be used as a major building block for implementing service-oriented architectures in large computing grids in which tens or hundreds of services are offered to customers. A service domain maps a collection of comparable or related services...