Design, manage and execute services based on Open Service Models

The Internet evolved to a generic platform and became a fully pervasive infrastructure providing services anywhere and anytime. The development of the cloud allows the assumption that every needed service has already been implemented. The authors argue that this technical viewpoint needs to be enlarged by service science aspects, where technology is only one perspective beside others like new business models, legal and security aspects, social as well as community influence. Hence the Internet of Service is seen as a paradigm-shift in the way business is provided to future customers in a virtualised world. It can be observed that service models widely used, hence in order to enable a holistic view on a service all models need to be integrated via a hyprid approach. This hyprid approach enables the use of different service models, for a different context with different tools but share common aspects of the service. Such a hyprid approach can be realised with meta models as a concept. The Open Model Initiative applies the same principles on models like the Open Source community does for software. This paper introduces the idea of the Open Models paradigm applied for service models, aims to motivate to openly share services models on this platform and introduces the sample of an IT-Socket for business and IT alignment that is currently developed in the EU-Project plugIT.