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World economies have effectively moved to a service economy where at least 75% of the GDP of most western countries is in the service sector. A large percentage of the service economy is in the government and commerce sectors. For instance, advances in e-government and e-commerce technologies have opened up new markets to provide client-centric services which usually require, in many instances, new and novel models of collaborations for service providers.
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Bouguettaya, A. (2008). Service Computing for the Service Economy. In: Hartmann, S., Zhou, X., Kirchberg, M. (eds) Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2008 Workshops. WISE 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5176. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85200-1_2
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