Preface ....................................................... vii
Section I:
Business Aspects of Enterprise Service Computing
Chapter I
Information Technology as a Service ............................. 1
Robin G. Qiu, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Chapter II
Aligning Business Processes with Enterprise Service Computing
Infrastructure ................................................. 25
Wei Zhao, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Jun-Jang Jeng, IBM T.J. Watson Research, USA
Lianjun An, IBM T.J. Watson Research, USA FeiCao, University
of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Barret R. Bryant, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Rainer Hauser, IBM Zurich Research,
Switzerland
Tao Tao, IBM T.J. Watson Research, USA
Chapter III
Service Portfolio Measurement (SPM): Assessing Finanacial
Performance of Service-Oriented Information Systems ............ 58
Jan vom Brocke, European Reseach Center for Information
Systems (ERCIS), University of Münster, Germany
Enterprise Service Computing: Requirements
Chapter IV
Requirements Engineering for Integrating the Enterprise ........ 92
Raghvinder S. Sangwan, Perm State Great Valley, USA
Chapter V
Mobile Workforce Management in a Service-Oriented
Enterprise: Capturing Concepts and Requirements in
a Multi-Agent Infrastructure .................................. 105
Dickson K.W. Chiu, Dickson Computer Systems, Hong Kong
S.C. Cheung, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,
Hong Kong
Ho-fung Leung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Section III
Enterprise Service Computing: Modeling
Chapter VI
Designing Enterprise Applications Using Model-Driven
Service-Oriented Architectures ................................ 132
Marten van Sinderen, University of Twente, The Netherlands
João Paulo Andrade Almeida, Telematica Instituut, The Netherlands
Luís Ferreira Pires, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Dick Quartel, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Chapter VII
A Composite Application Model for Building Enterprise
Information Systems in a Connected World ...................... 156
Jean-Jacques Dubray, SAP Labs, USA
Chapter VIII
Three-Point Service-Oriented Design and Modeling
Methodology for Web Services Composition ...................... 176
Xiang Gao, Supercom Canada, Canada
Jen-Yao Chung, IBM T.J. Watson Research, USA
Section IV
Enterprise Service Computing: Technologies
Chapter IX
Data Replication Strategies in Wide-Area Distributed
Systems ....................................................... 211
Sushant Goel, University of Melbourne Australia
Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia
Chapter X
Web Services vs. ebXML: An Evaluation of Web Services and
ebXML for E-Business Applications ............................. 242
Yuhong Yan, Canada National Research Council, Canada
Matthias Klein, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Chapter XI
Leveraging Pervasive and Ubiquitous Service Computing ......... 261
Zhijun Zhang, University of Phoenix, USA
Section V
Enterprise Service Computing: Formal Modeling
Chapter XII
A Petri Net-Based Specification Model Towards Verifiable
Service Computing ............................................. 285
Jia Zhang, Northern Illinois University, USA
Carl К. Chang, Iowa State University, USA
Seong W. Kim, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Korea
Chapter XIII
Service Computing for Design and Reconfiguration of
Integrated E-Supply Chains .................................... 322
Mariagrazia Dotoli, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Maria Pia Fanti, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Carlo Meloni, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Mengchu Zhou, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Section VI:
Enterprise Service Computing: Best Practices and
Deployment
Chapter XIV
Best Practice in Leveraging E-Business Technologies to
Achieve Business Agility ...................................... 356
Ehap H. Sabri, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Chapter XV
Concepts and Operations of Two Research Projects on Web
Services and Context at Zayed University ...................... 388
Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE
About the Authors ............................................. 408
Index ......................................................... 418
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