ISSD Fall 2009 School of Information, UC Berkeley

Computational services are “pure” information services that are typically carried out entirely by automated services without any human involvement or physical actions. These services are designed using principles and techniques of “document engineering,” “web services,” or “service-oriented architecture”.   These design perspectives view the service system abstractly as a set of cooperating services that interact by exchanging information through well-defined interfaces that specify the inputs and outputs of each service.