A Service Pattern-Oriented Computing Architecture for Service Ecosystems

Jianwei Yin, Meng Xi, Shuiguang Deng, Siwei Tan, Jintao Chen, Yongna Wei, Zhaohui Wu, Schahram Dustdar

Abstract: A service ecosystem is an increasingly popular service organization form, where participants, services, data, resources, and capital of different domains are integrated. It can empower business systems to consider the exchanged values and creations in a certain context. How to manage the participants’ cooperation and arrange the elements in the service ecosystem, namely service pattern, have become an important factor to influence the competitiveness of enterprises. However, at present, most of the relevant researches stay in the description of business model and qualitative analysis stage. The design and application of service pattern is still blind and risky. In this article, a service pattern-oriented computing architecture is proposed. It can systematically design and innovate new service patterns and comprehensively assess and simulate them.