On power-law relationships of the Internet topology
Proceedings of the conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
Digital Capital: Harnessing the Power of Business Webs
Digital Capital: Harnessing the Power of Business Webs
A Peer-to-Peer Approach to Web Service Discovery
World Wide Web
Formation and Early Growth of Business Webs: Modular Product Systems in Network Markets (Information Age Economy)
Distributed task allocation in social networks
Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Towards p2p-based semantic web service discovery with qos support
BPM'05 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Business Process Management
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The provisioning of complex services requires tight collaboration between diverse service providers and their customers harmonizing supply and demand chains to a highly flexible, dynamic and decentralized service value network. Peers in such a network autonomously delegate (sub-)tasks which cannot be done efficiently by themselves to other more suitable peers in their community. In this paper, we propose an architecture for such service communities that features decentralized service provisioning based on current Web technologies. In this context, we present an algorithm for efficient service value network formation and show by means of a simulation that sufficiently sized service networks can fulfill practically all customer requests. When compared to the optimal (central) case, there is a modest price increase for the customers but the overall welfare decreases only insignificantly.