Product-service system configuration in SOA-based environment

Abstract

Requirements from rapidly developing global markets force companies to develop new paradigms of business, such as product-service systems. Such paradigms, in turn, require new solutions from Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), and modern ICT do make it possible to develop such new approaches. The paper presents an approach based on efficient management of information services in the open information environment oriented to product-service system configuration. The approach is based on the technologies of ontology and context management. The standards of Web-services are used to provide for interoperability between information services. Application of constraints for knowledge representation makes it possible to integrate with existing services. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.