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Web Services Communities: From Intra-Community Coopetition to Inter-Community Competition

Web Services Communities: From Intra-Community Coopetition to Inter-Community Competition
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Author(s): Zakaria Maamar (Zayed University, UAE), Philippe Thiran (University of Namur, Belgium)and Jamal Bentahar (Concordia University, Canada)
Copyright: 2011
Pages: 11
Source title: E-Business Applications for Product Development and Competitive Growth: Emerging Technologies
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): In Lee (Western Illinois University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-132-4.ch016

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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.

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