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An intention-based service design discipline for the product-service architecture.

Dutra, Diogo De Souza

Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da USP; Universidade de São Paulo; Escola Politécnica 2016-12-20

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  • Título:
    An intention-based service design discipline for the product-service architecture.
  • Autor: Dutra, Diogo De Souza
  • Orientador: Silva, José Reinaldo
  • Assuntos: Design De Serviços; Iestrela; Engenharia De Serviços; Engenharia De Requisitos; Engenharia De Design; Serviços (Sistemas); Design Enginnering; Istar; Requirement Enginnering; Service Design; Service Enginnering
  • Notas: Dissertação (Mestrado)
  • Notas Locais: Programa Engenharia Mecânica
  • Descrição: From the 1990\'s onwards, service science field has experienced a great growth, taking the Marketing academic field as the precursor, next gathering Management and also Engineering academic field. From business tool (i.e., e-commerce), new approaches in service delivery (e.g., IT-based self-service technology such as on-line ticketing and reservation, on-line bank account access, on-line package tracking, and so forth), and new ways of relating to customers (i.e., e-Customer Relationship Management), internet based and IT services prompted researchers to an infusion of Software Engineering concepts and techniques into Service field (MOUSSA; TOUZANI, 2010). The beginning of 2004 was marked by the introduction of the service dominant logic (SDL), advocating a transition from an good-based exchange economy to a service-based one. Also, at the same year, IBM launched a call to action on the Service Science, Management and Engineer (SSME) initiative, pushing service research towards a more formal science field (MAGLIO et al., 2006). Researchers and practitioners are studying and developing ways to consolidate service theories, laws, and principles in order to effectively manage and control service systems in practice. On the other hand, Service Systems are defined as systems with an intense relationship (or collaboration) with the customer. This collaborative relationship characteristic changes the current (good-based) idea of services: from a one way informational channel, to a multiple resource exchange and adaptable process with the costumer. In fact, it changes not only the way service systems are understood, but specially how to design it. In terms of the impact of the service dominant logic on different economic sectors, the impact over manufacturing industry had the attention of several different researchers over the world (AURICH; MANNWEILER; SCHWEITZER, 2010; CAVALIERI; PEZZOTTA, 2012; TOMIYAMA, 2001). The Service Engineering research field then advocate for the incursion of Service Design in manufacturing, changing entirely the current idea of a production chain transformation process from suppliers raw materials inputs until distribution to the final consumer. However, the new perspective on manufacturing services understand services that encompass products, surpassing the notion of a product\'s function design, to reach a receiver\'s state change design. To support adaptation and intense relationship to address customer individual needs, a manufacturing service initiative must be root on technologies that brings more freedom and flexibility into the production process. A production processes for manufacturing services must be formed be a new sophisticated network arrangement supported by internet and combined with intelligent machines. In fact, manufacturing has to be supported to reach the concept of smart (virtual) factories producing smart products. The Product-Service Architecture (or just PSA) was proposed firstly by(SILVA; NOF, 2015) with the objective of answering the needs for a serviceoriented approach to manufacturing industries. As defined by the authors, PSA is a distributed architecture where a service provider is defined as an open set of production unities (which could deliver products, services, or even product/services) that could be independent or commercially connected to the service provider corporation. It is an approach to address the problem of Service Systems from a Design perspective, based on an high-level architecture. The current design approach for PSA is imported from the Service Information Systems, forming a collection of design methods and languages highly connected to object oriented and service-oriented architecture (SOA) approaches. However, to achieve the provider-customer relationship, intense and collaborative, improvements on PSA design approach should be placed in order to allow an internal design that could achieve new solutions that adapt to meet the customer\'s needs. Our main hypothesis is that major problems are on the early phases of the design. Modifying the approaches of the PSA design discipline to approaches more connected to agent-oriented modeling could offer the necessary tools to improve the service design using PSA. Goal-Oriented Requirement Engineering (GORE) emerged as approach very consistent modeling approach strongly based on agent-oriented concepts. Adding the concepts of goals and softgoals to the design process, that could be understood as a high-level stakeholder objectives, it opened a new level of analysis capturing the \"why\" dimensions of the stakeholders(YU, 1997). Following modeling representations to increase agency for the PSA design Discipline, the concept of Intentionality, brought by the GORE method i*, meaning interests and motivation of agents, seems to fit to the objectives of service design. Therefore, we present on this work our proposal for an Intentional PSA Service Design Discipline to support modeling and design for service system that could be even applied to new manufacturing approaches. For the purposes of this work, we understand discipline as a set of rules, involving steps and tools, to achieve a proposed goal. Discipline, as it does not admit a formalism that allows it to be called a method. Therefore, it is a theoretical conceptual proposal that aims practical incursions to demonstrated improvements of the modeling process. Therefore, what we want to demonstrate is that the steps gathered, aligned to a framework improves the quality of the design process. It is not possible to formalize it completely since there is no formal definition of the elements (even for services). It should be noted that the conceptual basis of the intention-based method lies in the preliminary stage of requirements elicitation and analysis, which as we know can not be formalized. We seeks the enrichment of the current PSA design discipline approach with Goal-oriented and Intentional approaches to form a new Service Design Discipline applied for the PSA architecture.
  • DOI: 10.11606/D.3.2017.tde-16032017-105320
  • Editor: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da USP; Universidade de São Paulo; Escola Politécnica
  • Data de criação/publicação: 2016-12-20
  • Formato: Adobe PDF
  • Idioma: Inglês

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