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defined in a different way. The way of thinking that some specialists of SOA would
like to impose, is dogmatic because it shuts the door to discovering new scientific
fields.
IS appears to be the provider of information, which are used by services, even if
services can also produce information. Two visions are possible (perhaps more): one
is to consider that services are upon IS; the second is to consider that in the future
IS will be composed only of services. But, one question will still emerge: how to
integrate a new service into an existing IS [ 5, 6] ?
This is a rather short and incomplete presentation of the concept of service, com-
ing from the IS domain. Numerous disciplines will be interested by this concept,
which can be defined more broadly, for instance: “the application of competences
for the benefit of another, meaning that service is a kind of action, performance or
promise that is exchanged for value between provider and client” [ 32] .
5 Conclusion
This chapter gives an overview of the emergence and the development of the
domain of information systems during these last decades. Nowadays, the IS domain
becomes a real strategic domain for the development of firms but also of the Society.
The aim of this chapter is to recognise all the efforts that the colleagues of the CAiSE
community and also the Inforsid French community did in the past and continue to
do in the domain of IS.
Colette Rolland played a major role in the emergence of this domain: in partic-
ular, she initiated very fruitful breakthroughs, as we mentioned along this chapter.
She received the grade of Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Geneva (2007).
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