Service modularity and architecture - an overview and research agenda

Services are highly important in a world economy which has increasingly become service-driven. There is a growing need to better understand the possibilities for, and requirements of, designing modular service architectures. The aim of this paper is to elaborate on the roots of the emerging research stream on service modularity, provide a concise overview of existing work on the subject, and outline an agenda for future research on service modularity and architecture. The articles in the special issue offer four diverse sets of research on service modularity and architecture