Building dedicated service creation environments for reuse based production

Abstract

The creation of telecom services is a difficult task, involving many actors, complex technical dependencies and an expensive execution infrastructure. A Service Creation Environment (SCE) should not only support service execution but should also relate to management systems, the service providing organisations, and service marketing. Dedicated SCEs for each service domain and organisation increase efficiency. It is important to have service domain analysis to develop a reuse based service architecture. The SCE supports production based on the service architecture and on a reuse base. An SCE has its own life cycle in parallel to the service domain life cycle, however, and must evolve with the services. Dedicated SCEs can be incrementally built using a spiral model and simple commercial tools at first.

The results presented in this paper are partially based on work performed for a RACE project ref. 2017, Service Creation in an Object Oriented Reuse Environment (SCORE). This paper represents the view of the authors.