Services computing as the foundation of enterprise agility: Overview of recent advances and introduction to the special issue

Information Systems Frontiers

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-8

  Zhao, J Leon ^a   Tanniru, Mohan ^a   Zhang, Liang Jie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Agile enterprises; Service science, management and engineering (SSME); Service oriented architecture; Service oriented computing; Services computing; Services science; Web services

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

BUSINESS COMPONENT MODELING; ENTERPRISE AGILITY; SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE; SERVICE ORIENTED COMPUTING; SERVICES SCIENCE;

WEB SERVICES;

EID: 33847715100     PISSN: 13873326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10796-007-9023-x     Document Type: Article

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