Yannis Zorgios

Dr Yannis Zorgios holds a PhD from the University of Manchester Institute of Science & Technology (UMIST), U.K. In 1998 joined CLMS (UK) LIMITED where he is the main architect and the product manager of the CLMS Enterprise Systems Management Server, a service oriented platform that combines the latest research developments in systems engineering, model driven development and business process management. His research interests focus on the provision of Contemporary Learning Management Systems and ontological frameworks that support large, complex and dynamic enterprise systems and empower the learning capability of individuals and organizations.

Publications

Towards an ICT Platform for the European Freight Transport Community
Towards an ICT Platform for the European Freight Transport Community
Bill Karakostas, Takis Katsoulakos, Yannis Zorgios. © 2012. 6 pages.
The paper identifies requirements for an Information and Communication (ICT) platform for the European freight transport sector- an e-Freight Platform. The e-Freight Platform can...
Model-Driven Engineering of Composite Service Oriented Applications
Model-Driven Engineering of Composite Service Oriented Applications
Bill Karakostas, Yannis Zorgios. © 2012. 15 pages.
Composite applications integrate web services with other business applications and components to implement business processes. Model-driven approaches tackle the complexity of...
Model-Driven Engineering of Composite Service Oriented Applications
Model-Driven Engineering of Composite Service Oriented Applications
Bill Karakostas, Yannis Zorgios. © 2011. 15 pages.
Composite applications integrate web services with other business applications and components to implement business processes. Model-driven approaches tackle the complexity of...
Engineering Service Oriented Systems: A Model Driven Approach
Engineering Service Oriented Systems: A Model Driven Approach
Bill Karakostas, Yannis Zorgios. © 2008. 420 pages.
Despite pressures of economic slowdown and the e-commerce bubble burst, moving towards e-services is a compelling necessity for today's organizations. Companies that are...
Introduction to Services
Introduction to Services
Bill Karakostas, Yannis Zorgios. © 2008. 17 pages.
Over the past few decades, organizations have witnessed dramatic changes in their environment. The globalisation of the economy with the emergence of Asia’s new economic...
Service Concepts
Service Concepts
Bill Karakostas, Yannis Zorgios. © 2008. 28 pages.
Services are something we routinely experience in everyday life as consumers. Also, depending on our profession, we may deal with services as providers. School teachers...
Standards for Web Services
Standards for Web Services
Bill Karakostas, Yannis Zorgios. © 2008. 40 pages.
Chapter II presented the main concepts underlying business services. Ultimately, as this book proposes, business services need to be decomposed into networks of executable Web...
Service Coordination
Service Coordination
Bill Karakostas, Yannis Zorgios. © 2008. 27 pages.
Chapter III introduced standards for Web service specification, such as WSDL and SOAP. With the use of such standards, Web service designers can model the functionality of a...
Model-Driven Service Engineering
Model-Driven Service Engineering
Bill Karakostas, Yannis Zorgios. © 2008. 39 pages.
This chapter argues that modeling is at the core of every service engineering method. Modeling not only allows us to understand business services but, what is equally important...
Ontologies for Model-Driven Service Engineering
Ontologies for Model-Driven Service Engineering
Bill Karakostas, Yannis Zorgios. © 2008. 40 pages.
In Chapter II we discussed the fundamental properties and concepts of a service. Concepts like interface, contract, service provider and service consumer are universal (i.e....
A Methodology for Model-Driven Service Engineering Based on IDEF
A Methodology for Model-Driven Service Engineering Based on IDEF
Bill Karakostas, Yannis Zorgios. © 2008. 46 pages.
Chapter II introduced universal service concepts (i.e. concepts that apply to any type of organization and service). In that chapter, we argued that services are so ubiquitous...
Service Deployment Execution and Management
Service Deployment Execution and Management
Bill Karakostas, Yannis Zorgios. © 2008. 46 pages.
This chapter is concerned with concepts, technologies, and standards for deploying, executing, and managing services. In previous chapters, we have argued that the design of the...
A Platform for Model-Driven Service Engineering
A Platform for Model-Driven Service Engineering
Bill Karakostas, Yannis Zorgios. © 2008. 28 pages.
This chapter introduces a service.engineering.platform (CLMS) that caters for all the phases of the service engineering life cycle. Although complete coverage of the service life...
A Case Study of Business Service Realization: Account Receivables—Account Payables
A Case Study of Business Service Realization: Account Receivables—Account Payables
Bill Karakostas, Yannis Zorgios. © 2008. 60 pages.
Having discussed a method for service realization in Chapter VII, the service methodology that was first outlined in the Introduction of this book is now complete. We have...
An Overview and Summary
An Overview and Summary
Bill Karakostas, Yannis Zorgios. © 2008. 14 pages.
This book has introduced a model-driven approach for identifying, designing, deploying, and managing business services in software. The concept of e-service is an extension of...