A Survey of Cost Accounting in Service-Oriented Computing

Nowadays, companies are increasingly offering their business services through computational services on the Internet in order to attract more customers and increase their revenues. However, these services have financial costs that need to be managed in order to maximize profit. Several models and te...

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Published in:Proceedings (IEEE World Congress on Services) pp. 77 - 84
Main Authors: Albuquerque de Medeiros, Robson Wagner, Rosa, Nelson Souto, Campos, Glaucia Melissa Medeiros, Ferreira Pires, Luis
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: IEEE 01.06.2014
Subjects:
Algebra
Business Process Management
Companies
Computational modeling
Cost accounting
Monitoring
Planning
Service costs
Service-oriented Service lifecycle
ISSN:2378-3818
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Summary:Nowadays, companies are increasingly offering their business services through computational services on the Internet in order to attract more customers and increase their revenues. However, these services have financial costs that need to be managed in order to maximize profit. Several models and techniques have been recently reported that aim at managing, controlling and reducing service costs. However, each of these contributions covers a specific cost aspect subject to certain constraints, while in practice more comprehensive solutions are necessary. This paper presents a survey of models and techniques to handle service costs throughout the phases of the service lifecycle. Based on this survey, we identified a number of opportunities for future research, which should eventually yield comprehensive cost solutions.
ISSN:2378-3818
DOI:10.1109/SERVICES.2014.23