Abstract:The emergence of converged services is driving communication service providers to cut back on software engineering costs, shorten time-to-market and build personalisable services. As illustrated by BT's 21CN architecture initiative, the industry is responding with the vision of next-generation service delivery platforms (SDPs). The move towards SDPs demands a principled approach to achieve reuse, modularity, and evolvability of software artefacts, ranging from business processes to application components. To t… Show more
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