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Towards a reusable and executable pricing model in the internet of services

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The Internet of Services envisions the trading of services where pricing information is an important aspect to enable cost comparisons. So far, there is a lack of a comprehensive pricing model that can be reused in different settings. XML-based electronic product catalogs are not comprehensive enough and established enterprise applications or billing engines bury their pricing model in the source code. Therefore, we present a directly applicable pricing model in the form of an ontology. We also contribute a runtime environment that determines the price on the basis of a context-aware declarative service description.

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iiWAS '10: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services
November 2010
895 pages
ISBN:9781450304214
DOI:10.1145/1967486
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  1. internet of services
  2. price plan
  3. pricing
  4. pricing model
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