SSE Meeting 31

Attendees

Andrew Farncombe, Alan Crawford, Simon Wright, John Davies, Neil Hunter.

Paper submitted following review and updates. Acceptance not yet confirmed. Expect minor changes may be needed, but feel overall paper is good.

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

Discussions focussed on deciding:

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

Monday 24 September 2018, 10-30 to 14-30, Rolls Royce, Filton, Bristol.