Matzner M (2012)
Publication Language: English
Publication Type: Book chapter / Article in edited volumes
Publication year: 2012
Publisher: Springer
Edited Volumes: Handbook of Service Description
City/Town: New York
Pages Range: 503-519
ISBN: 978-1-4614-1863-4
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-1864-1_20
The USDL has been designed as a means to describe services so that they can be traded via the Internet. The previous parts outlined the status-quo of service description research and practice and highlighted by feature comparison that USDL outstands related approaches in various concerns. However, for evaluating the actual worthiness of a modeling language such as USDL, potential users will consider the fit of the language with the contingent influences their organizations have to deal with. To fill this gap, the purpose of this chapter is to identify requirements for a service description language from potential USDL users. The presented research takes a semiotic theory perspective to the design of modeling languages. Through a Delphi study approach, i.e., an anonymous, written multi-stage survey process, the chapter elaborates a set of requirements. The requirements can be used to ex-post test if the features of the USDL actually address the users' needs and to recheck the underlying assumptions of the USDL design and development process. While finding broad consent with most requirements, we also observed differentiated needs related to the intended use of the USDL.
APA:
Matzner, M. (2012). Requirements for a Service Description Language: Findings from a Delphi Study. In Barros Alistair OD, Oberle Daniel (Eds.), Handbook of Service Description. (pp. 503-519). New York: Springer.
MLA:
Matzner, Martin. "Requirements for a Service Description Language: Findings from a Delphi Study." Handbook of Service Description. Ed. Barros Alistair OD, Oberle Daniel, New York: Springer, 2012. 503-519.
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