Enterprise Service Computing: From Concept to Deployment

Significant research and development advancement has been achieved in enterprise computing, integration, and management. The results of this advancement stimulate the creation of a new class of mission-critical infrastructures, a new category of integration methods and software tools, and a new group of business platforms for cost-effectively exploiting, integrating, and managing business operations across enterprises. Enterprise Service Computing: From Concept To Deployment presents the emerging service computing, or service-enabled computing, technologies currently preferably used in integrating enterprise-wide and cross-enterprise applications. The topics covered range from concept development, system design, modeling, and development technologies, to the final deployment, providing both theoretical research results and practical applications.

Robin G. Qiu is an Assistant Professor of Information Science at the Pennsylvania State University, and University Endowed Professor at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China. His research interests include services operations and informatics, component business modeling and computing, business transformation and services innovations, automatic information retrievals (auto-IR), and control and management of manufacturing systems. He has been published 90 publications including over 30 journal publications, and 2 book-chapters, and also founded the Services Science Global to promote the research on Services Science, Management and Engineering worldwide. He holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and a Ph.D. (minor) in Computer Science and Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University.