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This chapter motivates for the importance of the research field of services for society. While various streams of scientific developments have been previously conducted, it introduces the concept of white-box service system modeling as an approach to model the internal aspects or elements of service systems. The end of the chapter provides an explanation for the structure and content of this book, which is self-contained and comprehensive.

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    Gross Domestic Product.

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    http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl.

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    http://www.foaf-project.org/.

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    http://www.ebxml.org/.

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    World Wide Web Consortium: http://www.w3.org.

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    Resource Description Framework.

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  1. Department of Informatics Engineering, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Jorge Cardoso

  2. University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Ricardo Lopes

  3. Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

    Geert Poels

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Cardoso, J., Lopes, R., Poels, G. (2014). White-Box Service Systems. In: Service Systems. SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10813-1_1

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