A Flexible Platform Architecture for the Dynamic Composition of Third-Party-Services

Abstract

The increasing availability of IP-based services and the rise of the platform economy in several industrial branches allow vendors to conquer new sales markets and develop new business models. Technical interoperability among services available on platforms is a desirable feature, but also a major challenge. Typically, service providers need to implement APIs of other services directly - an expensive, cumbersome, and often error-prone task. We present a platform architecture that allows to define, publish, and implement third-pary APIs to ease dynamic service composition.