Liang-Jie Zhang, Jia Zhang, Hong Cai, Services Computing, Springer and Tsinghua University Press, June 2007
As the core technical foundation for the modern services science, Services Computing covers the science, technology and business models of effectively creating and leveraging computing technology to bridge the gap between Business and IT services.
This book systematically introduces the fundamentals of this new discipline based on the latest research results in Web services and service-oriented architecture (SOA); business consulting methodology and utilities; business process modeling, transformation, integration, and management; and Services as Software, Software as A Service, and Web 2.0 for effective services delivery. Major solution architectures, technologies and research methods are discussed in the lifecycle of services innovation research, including business componentization; services modeling, creation, realization, annotation, deployment, discovery, composition and delivery; service-to-service collaboration; and services monitoring, optimization, and management. This book provides readers with new research and solution methods to enable IT services and computing technology to better create and manage business services, which is the goal of Services Computing.
