Conceptualisation of Hybrid Service Models: An Open Models Approach

Engineering of services using a model-driven approach became a prominent field in the research and commercial world in recent years. Looking at Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) related publications, the term "Service modeling" has a multitude of perspectives and aspects. In order to make the results tangible a grouping of observation from literature has been performed allowing the identification of research challenges for a Hybrid Service Modeling framework. As a realization proposal the Hybrid Modeling Approach for Services is introduced. The approach builds upon metamodelling concepts resulting in six axioms for combining modeling perspectives/aspects in an open environment.