Enterprises increasingly jointly participate in service value webs. They do so because enterprises can then offer services they could not offer on their own. In earlier work, we have developed the e 3 value methodology to conceptually model such networks, as a design task. This paper proposes an approach to semi-automatically generate such service value networks based on service profiles and a stated consumer need. To this end, we apply skeleton design and hierarchical configuration techniques.

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... The configuration process is illustrated by a case study in the field of intellectual property right clearing. 3 http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl20 4 Software tool support can be obtained from value web consisting of concrete actors, exchanging concrete things (e.g. services and money) of economic value with each other. The generation process uses an hierarchical configuration approach, plus a service profile of each actor involved. The rest of this paper is structured as follows. Sect. 2 presents the IPR case study in more detail. In Sect. 3, we briefly introduce the e 3 value methodology. Sect. 4 presents the e 3 value skeleton for the IPR case. Sect. 5 introduces the notion of service profiles. Sect. 6 presents the hierarchical configuration process. Sect. 7 discusses tool support for the configuration process at hand. Sect. 8 discusses related work, and in Sect. 9 our conclusions are presented.