Abstract
The past decade was marked by a profound change in the business world. Globalization was already taking off in the 1990s, but it reached a new quality when people and companies got used to web-based collaboration across the globe. Started as a well-defined technical infrastructure, the Internet has become the world’s encompassing communication infrastructure. Year by year, the network grew, more and more nodes were added, humans, machines, and businesses were linked, and finally the Internet boomed. It emerged into the world’s business backbone.
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This is the Internet of Services vision that lies behind the THESEUS research program and the Texo use case that developed an integrated platform for providing, managing and combining Internet-based services; see http://www.theseus-program.de/en/about.php
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Most recently stated by Google’s co-founder Sergej Brin who blamed Facebook for inhibiting innovation due to its closed networks (Katz 2012).
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Some authors use the term Societal Operation Platform (Couturier et al. 2011).
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This tradition is still followed by larger research programs working on advancements of the Future Internet.
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The THESEUS research program in Germany, the Smart Services CRC in Australia and parts of the Future Internet research on European level are all based on the notion of a Service Science.
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See Couturier et al. (2011) for an account of the even broader term Future Internet.
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The following is adapted from Sikka (2012).
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Fischer, S. (2014). Challenges of the Internet of Services. In: Wahlster, W., Grallert, HJ., Wess, S., Friedrich, H., Widenka, T. (eds) Towards the Internet of Services: The THESEUS Research Program. Cognitive Technologies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06755-1_2
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