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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">109</journal-id>
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        <journal-title xml:lang="en">JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title xml:lang="en">jucs</abbrev-journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="ppub">0948-695X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">0948-6968</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Journal of Universal Computer Science</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3217/jucs-016-13-1668</article-id>
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          <subject>Research Article</subject>
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          <subject>D.2.9 - Management</subject>
          <subject>H.1 - MODELS AND PRINCIPLES</subject>
          <subject>H.3.5 - Online Information Services</subject>
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        <article-title>Service Networks Modelling: An SOA &amp; BPM Standpoint</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Danylevych</surname>
            <given-names>Olha</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:type="simple">olha.danylevych@iaas.uni-stuttgart.de</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Karastoyanova</surname>
            <given-names>Dimka</given-names>
          </name>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Leymann</surname>
            <given-names>Frank</given-names>
          </name>
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      <aff id="A1">
        <label>1</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany</addr-line>
        <institution>University of Stuttgart</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Stuttgart</addr-line>
        <country>Germany</country>
      </aff>
      <author-notes>
        <fn fn-type="corresp">
          <p>Corresponding author: Olha Danylevych (<email xlink:type="simple">olha.danylevych@iaas.uni-stuttgart.de</email>).</p>
        </fn>
        <fn fn-type="edited-by">
          <p>Academic editor: </p>
        </fn>
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      <pub-date pub-type="collection">
        <year>2010</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>01</day>
        <month>07</month>
        <year>2010</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>16</volume>
      <issue>13</issue>
      <fpage>1668</fpage>
      <lpage>1693</lpage>
      <uri content-type="arpha" xlink:href="http://openbiodiv.net/77DFEC9F-D5AE-52EF-9216-5957BAF5CD35">77DFEC9F-D5AE-52EF-9216-5957BAF5CD35</uri>
      <uri content-type="zenodo_dep_id" xlink:href="https://zenodo.org/record/7001287">7001287</uri>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>Olha Danylevych, Dimka Karastoyanova, Frank Leymann</copyright-statement>
        <license license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="" xlink:type="simple">
          <license-p>This article is freely available under the J.UCS Open Content License.</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <label>Abstract</label>
        <p>Services are quintessential in the current economical landscape. Enterprises and businesses at large rely on the consumption and providing of services to ensure their operations and to realize their business offers. That is, nowadays businesses all over the world are interconnected with each other by complex service-centric webs called service networks. The ubiquity and pervasiveness of service networks call for models, methods, mechanisms and tools to understand them and harness their potential. This paper investigates the modelling of the service networks with a focus on business relationships and exchanges of software services among the involved parties. The contribution of this work is threefold. Firstly, we provide an overview of what service networks modelling can offer in combination with Business Process Management (BPM) and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) technologies. Secondly, we propose a formalism to model service networks that depicts them as aggregations of participants - e.g. enterprises or individuals - that offer, request, consume and provide services to each other. With the goal of providing a foundation for the alignment between service network- and business process models, we finally map the constructs of our service networks modelling formalism to the ones of the Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN).</p>
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