Service Selection Method for Facilitating Life Cycle Options in Environmentally Benign Product and Service Business

Intelligent System Facilitating Service Selection

Decision making rules an intelligent agent is applying for deriving suppliers’ service quality dimensions are investigated in this paper. Key–Words: Decision support system, intelligent agents

Service Selection in Business Service Ecosystem

A world-wide community of service providers has a presence on the web, and people seeking services typically go to the web as an initial place to search for them. Service selection is comprised of two steps: finding service candidates using search engines and selecting those which meet desired service properties best. Within the context of Web Services, the service selection problem has been so...

Life-Cycle Perspectives of Product/Service- Systems: In Design Theory

Manufacturers are moving more and more towards the business approach of Product/Service Systems (PSS) in order to achieve greater revenue. PSS have many benefits such as achieving closer customer connection and generating increased profit from manufactured products. However, in order to achieve a PSS which is adapted for this business approach, the products and services used need to consider a ...

Service components for managing the life-cycle of service compositions

Web services are becoming the prominent paradigm for distributed computing and electronic business. This has raised the opportunity for service providers and application developers to develop value-added services by combining existing web services. However, current web service composition solutions do not address software engineering principles for raising the level of abstraction in web-servic...

A method to improve integrated product service offerings based on life cycle costing