The Internet of Services is a vision of the Internet of the Future where organisations and individuals can find software as services on the Internet, combine them, and easily adapt them to their specific context. Users should be able to use software services that do exactly what they need. The Internet of Services will consist of virtualisation technology that will make network, storage and computing resources available. Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand access to a shared pool of these configurable computing resources and services. Services use these resources and will be built using SOA (service oriented architectures) principles.
(Source: Cordis)
Internet of Services is addressed in the ICT work programme 2011/12 (p.16) under the following challenges/objectives:
> Challenge 1:Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Objective ICT-2011.1.2 Cloud Computing, Internet of Services and Advanced Software Engineering
b) Internet of Services
- Service engineering principles, methods and tools supporting development for the Internet of Services, including languages and tools to model parallelism.
- Services enabled by technologies for seamless integration of real and virtual worlds, through the convergence with Internet of Things and Internet of Contents.
- Massive scalability, self-management, verification, validation and fault localisation for software-based services.
- Methods and tools to manage life cycle of secure and resilient Internet-scale applications from requirements to run-time and their adaptive evolution over time.
