TY - GEN
T1 - Achieving flexibility via service-centric community source
T2 - 13th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2007)
AU - Liu, Manlu
AU - Wang, Harry J.
AU - Leon Zhao, J.
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Service-centric application development has become one of the most important paradigms in software engineering, and collaborative open source development has emerged as a new way for organizations to develop new applications that are either not available or too expensive to acquire. A most recent trend is to combine service centricity with open source development collaborated by multiple organizations to develop scalable and flexible information systems. However, service centricity and open source collaboration involve innovative concepts and practices that are very new to many. As such, there are a lot of confusion among both researchers and practitioners in this area. In this paper, we investigate several important concepts surrounding service-centric open source development via the case of Kuali including service-oriented architecture, workflow technology, and technology flexibility as well as the relationships among those concepts. In particular, we concentrate on understanding the relationships between technology flexibility and emerging technologies. One important contribution of this paper is the introduction of community source as a unique open source concept to the MIS community. Finally, we report several research findings and outline a number of research directions in the related areas.
AB - Service-centric application development has become one of the most important paradigms in software engineering, and collaborative open source development has emerged as a new way for organizations to develop new applications that are either not available or too expensive to acquire. A most recent trend is to combine service centricity with open source development collaborated by multiple organizations to develop scalable and flexible information systems. However, service centricity and open source collaboration involve innovative concepts and practices that are very new to many. As such, there are a lot of confusion among both researchers and practitioners in this area. In this paper, we investigate several important concepts surrounding service-centric open source development via the case of Kuali including service-oriented architecture, workflow technology, and technology flexibility as well as the relationships among those concepts. In particular, we concentrate on understanding the relationships between technology flexibility and emerging technologies. One important contribution of this paper is the introduction of community source as a unique open source concept to the MIS community. Finally, we report several research findings and outline a number of research directions in the related areas.
KW - Business process management
KW - Community source
KW - Open source
KW - Service centricity
KW - Service-centric development
KW - Service-oriented architecture
KW - Technology flexibility
KW - Workflow technology
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M3 - RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication)
SN - 9781604233810
VL - 3
SP - 1522
EP - 1532
BT - Association for Information Systems - 13th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2007: Reaching New Heights
Y2 - 10 August 2007 through 12 August 2007
ER -