Visiting Professor in Service Science.
Research Interests.
The specification, implementation and delivery of service systems; applications and development of concurrency theory; the semantics of simulation systems; design and development of decision support tools and modeling biological systems.
I am currently employed by Service Science organisation concinnitas - spun out by the Service Science research team from Hewlett-Packard’s Laboratories in Bristol.
Service Science Publications
- Enabling the Web of Services - Taylor, Richard; Tofts, Chris, HPL-2008-147
- Service Comprehension - Taylor, Richard; Tofts, Chris, HPL-2008-140
- Taking a RaSP to Enterprise Stakeholder Dissonance - Taylor, Richard; Tofts, Chris, EDOC 2008.
- Model Based Services Discovery and Management - Taylor, Richard; Tofts, Chris, PICMET 2008.
- Services Sciences Education an HPL Perspective, Taylor, Richard; Tofts, Chris, Manchester Service Science, 2008
- Public services innovation through technology, Pym, David; Taylor, Richard; Tofts, Chris, PICMET 2007
- Minding the Abstraction Gap, Taylor, Richard; Tofts, Chris, POMS 2007.
- Services Science, Taylor, Richard; Tofts, Chris, POMS 2007.
- Normann's Crane 2.0 Operationalising Service Systems co-design, Taylor, Richard; Tofts, Chris, HPL-2007-160
- HP Position Statement on Education for Services Innovation, Umeshwar Dayal, Kannan Govindarajan, Harumi Kuno, Martha Lyons, Brian Monahan, David Pym, Richard Taylor, Chris Tofts, Kevin Wilkinson, Mike Yearworth, 2007
- Systems and services sciences: a rationale and a research agenda, Pym, David; Taylor, Richard; Tofts, Chris; Yearworth, Mike; Monahan, Brian; Gittler, Frederic, HPL-2006-112
- Grand Challenges for Systems and Services Sciences, Monahan, Brian; Pym, David; Taylor, Richard; Tofts, Chris; Yearworth, Mike, HPL-2006-99
- Engineering the Polymath Innovation in Systems and Services Education, Monahan, Brian; Pym, David; Taylor, Richard; Tofts, Chris; Yearworth, Mike, HPL-2006-100
- Death by a thousand SLAs a short study of commercial suicide pacts. Richard Taylor and Chris Tofts.HPL-2005-11R1
- Open Analytics Taylor, Richard; Tofts, Chris; Yearworth, Mike, HPL-2004-138
- Modelling, myth vs reality, map vs territory,Taylor, Richard; Tofts, Chris, HPL-2003-246
- Business as a Control System: the essence of an intelligent enterprise,Taylor, Richard; Tofts, Chris, HPL-2003-247
My full publication and patent list can be found here.
Along with my colleague Richard Taylor I delivered a final year undergraduate course on the application of service science.