Challenges of the Internet of Services
Towards the Internet of Services: The THESEUS Research Program, Springer, Berlin, (2014)DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-06755-1_2
Abstract
The past decade was marked by a profound change in the business world. Globalization was already taking off in the 1990s, but it reached a new quality when people and companies got used to web-based collaboration across the globe. Started as a well-defined technical infrastructure, the Internet has become the world's encompassing communication infrastructure. Year by year, the network grew, more and more nodes were added, humans, machines, and businesses were linked, and finally the Internet boomed. It emerged into the world's business backbone.
