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Web Services Communities: from Intra-Community Coopetition to Inter-Community Competition
E-Business Applications for Product Development and Competitive Growth
  • Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University
  • Philippe Thiran, University of Namur
  • Jamal Bentahar, Concordia University
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
1-1-2011
Abstract

This chapter discusses the structure and management of communities of Web services from two perspectives. The first perspective, called coopetition, shows the simultaneous cooperative and competitive behaviors that Web services exhibit when they reside in the same community. These Web services offer similar functionalities, and hence are competitive, but they can also cooperate as they share the same savoir-faire. The second perspective, called competition, shows the competition that occurs not between Web services but between their communities, which are associated with similar functionalities. To differentiate such communities, a competition model based on a set of metrics is discussed in this chapter.

Publisher
IGI Global
Disciplines
Indexed in Scopus
No
Open Access
No
https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-132-4.ch016
Citation Information
Zakaria Maamar, Philippe Thiran and Jamal Bentahar. "Web Services Communities: from Intra-Community Coopetition to Inter-Community Competition" E-Business Applications for Product Development and Competitive Growth (2011) p. 333 - 343
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/zakaria-maamar/148/