SSE Meeting 30

Attendees

Iain Cardow, Andrew Farncombe, Alan Crawford, Sarwar Ahmad, Simon Wright, Filippo Farina(RR), John Davies.

Paper for ASEC 2018

SW had submitted the abstract for ASEC 2018 that had been developed at the April meeting. This has been accepted and a six page paper is to be submitted by 11 June. The meeting agreed to focus on this paper.

Paper format

The ASEC paper format was used and general content for each section identified.

Discussions focussed on deciding:

• The overall message we want to get out
• What is different about the approach being taked
• Why this difference is important
• How we get this across to the referees

How to express the findings

• Four different white-board briefs of our contribution were produced and discussed. It was agreed that considering two views of the system - one service oriented and one system oriented could be used to cover the four different briefs, and provide strong message.
• It was agreed that the major contribution to be expressed in this paper is for the analysis of Services in terms of Context Diagrams, Stakeholder Analysis, Behaviour Analysis, Context Analysis and Structure Analysis are different if you take Service-Centric views against what you get if you take a System-Centric views.
• The difference compared to Architecture Frameworks, that include Service views such as MoDAF, is that AFs are looking at services as system components, whereas we are looking at the enterprise or business from two views - one Service-Centric and one System-Centric.
• Hence for example a Service-Centric Stakeholder Analysis will be similar (and use the same or similar methods) to a System-Centric Stakeholder Analysis but focus on the Service aspects and provide a richer set of outputs.
• Comparison was made with Product Service Systems (Tukker) which deals with a range of Services from Pure Service to Pure Product.
• It was noted that the standard Service Oriented Architecture relating Business Model to Services provided by System Components fits into our wider

Actions

• SW – to develop draft ASEC2018 paper .
• IC to arrange phone in Tuesday 29 May 14-00 Review of draft paper
• IC to arrange phone in Tuesday 5th June 14-00 Review of updated paper

Next Meeting

Monday 16 July 2018, 10-30 to 14-30, Babcock, Keynsham, Bristol.