Title:
The
Internet of Services: Stakeholders,
Applications and Technology
Abstract: Web Services have
experienced great interest during the last years as they were expected
to act as enablers of seamless application-to-application integration
both within company boundaries and on a global scale. However, a truly
global mesh of interoperable services has not yet become reality due to
various reasons. Novel technologies and design principles are now about
to emerge which shift the Internet towards a major inflection point: It
is envisioned to evolve as a global platform for the retrieval,
combination and utilization of interoperable resources. In this
article, we contrast the Internet as of today and the envisioned
Internet of Services along three major categories: Stakeholders
(resource providers, consumers and intermediaries), Applications
(applications management, types of resources and application
development) and finally Technology (resource interfaces and
composition, messaging protocols and infrastructure). We conclude with
an outlook on the important role this emerging Internet of Services
will play as technological enabler of informationservices
industrialization
Author: Christoph
Schroth