An Application Of Multiperspective Service Management In Virtual Power Plants

Within the energy domain, the manifold term service gains more and more momentum. The term is used in different contexts and on various abstraction layers, so that many perspectives on services exist. This chapter introduces multiperspective service management (MPSM) and its application in virtual power plants (VPPs). A VPP combines numerous decentralized generating units and consumers by a smart ICT-infrastructure, and thus creates a need for service-oriented architecture management. Service management has to address several views from different stakeholders from certain viewpoints. MPSM allows both the annotation of metadata to single services to support context-free analyses and modeling the entire enterprise for holistic and context-aware service management. This approach is based on Enterprise Architecture Management knowledge, and it shows how to manage complex systems like VPPs by considering different perspectives on services and domain-specific requirements. To demonstrate the benefits of the approach, exemplary analyses are provided as use cases.