Design Principles for B2B Services - An Evaluation of Two Alternative Service Designs

A service-oriented architecture (SOA) promises a more flexible intra- and interorganizational integration of heterogeneous application systems. The central design element of a SOA consists of services which encapsulate existing application logic, and can be dynamically combined to form business processes. This paper aims at contributing to the emerging discipline of “service engineering” by investigating the design principles for B2B services. The authors draw on an analysis of the literature to derive the main design principles for services and evaluate two alternative design proposals for a concrete application scenario in the automotive industry. The results comprise on the one hand statements on the quality of the service design in the concrete case and on the other the outlook for future topics of research in “service engineering”.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: IEEESCC
• Authors: Christine Legner, Tobias Vogel
• Keywords: Applied Computing, Design Principles, Heterogeneous Application Systems, IEEESCC 2007, Service Engineering