<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>32</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cardoso, Tiago</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Proactive Services Ecosystem Framework”</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Universidade Nova de Lisboa</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2012</style></year></dates><urls><related-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://docentes.fct.unl.pt/sites/default/files/tomfc/files/cardoso_2012.pdf</style></url></related-urls></urls><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lisboa</style></pub-location><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Collaborative-Networks (CN) have experienced a fast evolution in the last two decades. The&lt;br /&gt;
collaboration among independent entities or professionals supported by Information and&lt;br /&gt;
Communication Technology (ICT) has attracted the research community to establish the&lt;br /&gt;
conceptual basis for this scientific discipline. Service Orientation has been one of the key selected&lt;br /&gt;
paradigms for that conceptual basis. Nevertheless, the service concept itself does not have a&lt;br /&gt;
common understanding in the Business and ICT worlds. In the former, client satisfaction,&lt;br /&gt;
resources management and business process models are some example concerns, whilst the later&lt;br /&gt;
deals with interoperability, remote function calling or communication protocols.&lt;br /&gt;
If for example an enterprise provides some service, it may hire specialists to wrap such&lt;br /&gt;
service into web-services, expecting to reach worldwide potential new clients. In fact, nowadays&lt;br /&gt;
Web Services and Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) are the technological elements most&lt;br /&gt;
commonly used. However, these are passive elements in the sense they do not perform any action&lt;br /&gt;
towards pursuing business interests, which constitute a limiting factor from a business&lt;br /&gt;
perspective. Another approach for the above mentioned enterprise is to follow the Multi-Agent&lt;br /&gt;
Systems (MAS) approach, as the pro-activity is a keyword in such contexts. Nevertheless, as&lt;br /&gt;
MAS approaches are not so commonly used and not so robust yet, the worldwide potential set of&lt;br /&gt;
new clients is reduced; which also constitutes an inhibitor factor from the business perspective.&lt;br /&gt;
This dissertation proposes a Pro-Active Services Ecosystem Framework, gathering&lt;br /&gt;
inspiration from both the SOA and MAS research areas, trying to bridge the business and ICT&lt;br /&gt;
worlds through the base concepts for the creation of a Services’ Ecosystem where business&lt;br /&gt;
services are represented in a pro-active manner towards pursuing business interests, like finding&lt;br /&gt;
collaboration opportunities or improving the chances each CN member has to see its services&lt;br /&gt;
selected among competitors, for example. This work also includes a prototype system applied /&lt;br /&gt;
validated in the area of a Professional Virtual Community of Senior Professionals. &lt;/p&gt;
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