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Towards a conceptual foundation of service composition

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Service Orientation is a computing paradigm that fundamentally differs from previous paradigms. Advocated by Software Industry, it lacks from theoretical foundation and a systematic build-up. In this paper we suggest concepts and ideas for a theoretical foundation and a systematic build-up of a key part of SOC, namely service composition.

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Acknowledgements

I owe Frank Leyman a lot of criticism that led to fundamental changes of this paper—to the better, hopefully. In particular Frank suggested to discuss the quest for commutativity as in Sect. 3.3, and the problem of more involved composition operator as in Sect. 3.4.

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    Wolfgang Reisig

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Reisig, W. Towards a conceptual foundation of service composition. Comput Sci Res Dev 33, 281–289 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00450-017-0383-2

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