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The Service-Bond Paradigm—Potentials for a Sustainable, ICT-enabled Future

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  • @ARTICLE{10.4108/eai.18-7-2016.151625,
    author={Reza Farrahi Moghaddam and Yves Lemieux and Mohamed Cheriet},
    title={The Service-Bond Paradigm---Potentials for a Sustainable, ICT-enabled Future},
    journal={EAI Endorsed Transactions on Smart Cities},
    volume={1},
    number={1},
    publisher={EAI},
    journal_a={SC},
    year={2016},
    month={7},
    keywords={Service, Sustainability, Service-Bond, ICT, Smart City, Smart House},
    doi={10.4108/eai.18-7-2016.151625}
}
  • Reza Farrahi Moghaddam
    Yves Lemieux
    Mohamed Cheriet
    Year: 2016
    The Service-Bond Paradigm—Potentials for a Sustainable, ICT-enabled Future
    SC
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.18-7-2016.151625
Reza Farrahi Moghaddam1,2,*, Yves Lemieux2, Mohamed Cheriet3
  • 1: Lab and CIRROD, ETS (University of Quebec), Montreal, QC, Canada H3C 1K3
  • 2: Ericsson Research - Cloud Technology, Ericsson Canada Inc., Montreal, QC, Canada H4P 2N2
  • 3: Synchromedia Lab and CIRROD, ETS (University of Quebec), Montreal, QC, Canada H3C 1K3
*Contact email: imriss@ieee.org

Abstract

The service paradigm has gone through a long journey of evolution and improvement. A service-oriented vision to activities in general could serve as a platform for the global transition to a sustainable future. However, the services themselves are required to move beyond their traditional definition in order to prevent any secondary side effect. Here, a new paradigm is proposed based on bonding between entities involved in a service interaction, service chaining, or service orchestration. It is purposed to serve as a vehicle to approach sustainability at the global level in a manner that is thoughtful, collaborative, and incremental. The service bonds are then simply generalized toward representing bonding among more than two entities. Finally, a practical application of ICT agents in enabling the service bonds is presented in a use case related to smart houses along with some ICT-based agents (federal regulars, among other ICT agents).

Keywords
Service, Sustainability, Service-Bond, ICT, Smart City, Smart House
Received
2015-09-21
Accepted
2016-07-07
Published
2016-07-20
Publisher
EAI
http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/eai.18-7-2016.151625

Copyright © 2016 Reza Farrahi Moghaddam et al., licensed to EAI. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unlimited use, distribution and reproduction in any medium so long as the original work is properly cited.