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The LSS-USDL Model

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In Chap. 2, we studied four theories that provided a comprehensive view of service. This chapter starts by complementing the study made by looking into business model conceptualizations to create an evaluation

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Notes

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    KISS is an acronym and design principle for “Keep it simple, stupid” and was introduced by the U.S. Navy in 1960.

  2. 2.

    Jena TDB http://jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html.

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    AllegroGraph http://www.franz.com/agraph/allegrograph/.

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    Protégé ontology editor and knowledge-base framework http://protege.stanford.edu.

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    http://www.rdfabout.com/demo/validator/.

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    http://www.w3.org/RDF/Validator/.

  7. 7.

    See IEEE RFC2616 at http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616 for details.

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    Linked Data—Design Issues http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.

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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). The LSS-USDL Model. In: Service Systems. SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10813-1_3

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