TY - GEN
T1 - Towards a hybrid simulation modelling framework for service networks
AU - Wang, Y.
AU - van den Heuvel, W.J.A.M.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - The increasingly globalized service-centric economy has brought much attention on the concept of service networks. Scientific disciplines, such as management and service oriented computing, have commenced studying on how to design, develop, manage, and govern service networks. What is really needed for service networks to be developed, provisioned and managed in practice, however, are disciplined methods and tools that are able to take into account, tune and reconcile both technical and business considerations. This paper may be seen as a first, yet critical step in realizing the above vision. In particular, this paper explores a hybrid service network simulation approach that is able to analyze, optimize and tune the performance of service networks and their resources, including software services and human operated services. Our holistic, hybrid simulation framework will be firmly grounded on pre-existing simulation techniques that have been widely used in process modelling and simulation.
AB - The increasingly globalized service-centric economy has brought much attention on the concept of service networks. Scientific disciplines, such as management and service oriented computing, have commenced studying on how to design, develop, manage, and govern service networks. What is really needed for service networks to be developed, provisioned and managed in practice, however, are disciplined methods and tools that are able to take into account, tune and reconcile both technical and business considerations. This paper may be seen as a first, yet critical step in realizing the above vision. In particular, this paper explores a hybrid service network simulation approach that is able to analyze, optimize and tune the performance of service networks and their resources, including software services and human operated services. Our holistic, hybrid simulation framework will be firmly grounded on pre-existing simulation techniques that have been widely used in process modelling and simulation.
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-22760-8_13
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-22760-8_13
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9783642227592
VL - 6569
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
SP - 119
EP - 128
BT - Proceedings of the 3rd ServiceWave Conference Workshops (ServiceWave 2010)
A2 - Cezon, M.
A2 - Wolfsthal, Y.
PB - Springer Verlag
CY - Heidelberg
ER -