The Virtual Business Services Fabric: An Integrated Abstraction of Services and Computing Infrastructure

This paper introduces (i) the concept of business services as a fabric that is a network of networks consisting of service components; (ii) proposes partitioning and composition schemes for creating a virtualized services fabric; and (iii) an agent based infrastructure services fabric to implement knowledge based policies and business workflows. The proposed VBSF - a model for heterogeneous virtualization and abstraction of services, applications, policies, capabilities, resources, infrastructure and, even, people - allows dynamic allocation of resources and dynamic assembly (composition) of business workflows. This model is applicable to services and infrastructural environments that transcend public and private clouds, services, applications and infrastructures.