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By far the best known standard for registering and searching for services is the UDDI. A great weakness of this standard is its technology-driven way of specifying services; it is still inadequate for specifying the majority of aspects that are relevant from a business point of view. This stands in sharp contrast to the main premises of SOA, i.e. increased flexibility by the reuse of services and better business/IT-alignment by speaking the same language. A more comprehensive approach to specifying services is the business component specification framework. One of the aspects that needs to be specified according to this framework are the business tasks. The framework, however, does not define precisely what a task is and how a task should be identified. In this paper we propose taking the enterprise ontology as a starting point for specifying these tasks. Furthermore, we demonstrate our approach using a life insurance company case.
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Terlouw, L. (2008). Towards a Business-Oriented Specification for Services. In: Dietz, J.L.G., Albani, A., Barjis, J. (eds) Advances in Enterprise Engineering I. CIAO! EOMAS 2008 2008. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 10. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68644-6_9
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