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A Unified Description Language for the Internet of Services

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Abstract

In order to enable communication and trade between providers and consumers of services, the Internet of Services requires a standard that creates a “commercial envelope” around a service. Therefore, research in Texo centered around a description language for arbitrary services, such as human or platform services. Consequently, the Unified Service Description Language (USDL) is a major outcome of Texo and allows a normative and balanced unification of service information. The unified description established by USDL is machine-processable, and considers technical and business aspects of a service as well as functional and non-functional attributes. USDL has been built according to the design science approach, whose major research questions are answered in this article.

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Fußnoten
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2PL – A second-party logistics provider is an asset-based carrier, which owns the means of transportation, e.g., shipping lines, airlines, truck, or rail companies.
 
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3PL – A third-party logistics provider is a firm that provides a one-stop shop service to its customers of outsourced logistics services for part or all of their supply chain management functions.
 
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4PL – A fourth-party logistics provider or lead logistics provider is a consulting firm specializing in logistics, transportation, and supply chain management.
 
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The following description is taken from Oberle et al. (2013). Note that the Technical and Foundation modules are not discussed due to space limitations.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
A Unified Description Language for the Internet of Services
verfasst von
Daniel Oberle
Copyright-Jahr
2014
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06755-1_34

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