Purpose – Within an IT outsourcing relationship, transition represents a critical and complex phase that starts immediately after contract signing. Transition involves handing over outsourced activities from client firm to service provider firm and accompanies a new way of operating. The purpose of this paper is to determine and detail factors influencing the performance of transition phase wit...

PURPOSE To describe, within a state-wide transition framework, the pathway to improved health support services for adults with spina bifida. Our aim was to achieve adult care that addressed adult health issues, despite significant budgetary restraints and competition for the public health dollar. METHOD A pilot clinical service project in one of the Area Health Services and a transition workf...

Research in this thesis is motivated by product transitions, historically first from physical products to virtual products and lately from virtual products to services. The recorded music industry was focused on understanding the dynamics of transitions from one generation of use to another. The recorded music industry was selected to study as it is one of the most dynamic and rapidly changing ...

Despite their importance, Web service business protocols are not always published with service interfaces, which hinders automatic management. A solution is to extract them from past executions. One of the raised issues is the discovery of temporal constraints called timed transitions, which are not explicitly recorded. In this paper we present our approach for discovering such transitions. We ...

Web services are software entities which provide a set of functionalities that can be accessed over the Web. In general, the valuations of variables appearing in various functions provided by the service are not known before execution. Consequently, to analyze the behavior of a service, all possible valuations need to be considered, making the whole system infinite-state. Against this backgroun...

In this paper we propose I O state transition diagrams for service descrip tion In contrast to other techniques like for example Statecharts we allow to model non atomic services by sequences of transitions This is especially important in a distributed system where concurrent service invocation cannot be prohibited We give a mathematical model of object behaviour based on concurrent and sequent...

IPv6 is a new version of the internetworking protocol designed to address the scalability and service shortcomings of the current standard, IPv4. Unfortunately, IPv4 and IPv6 are not directly compatible, so programs and systems designed to one standard can not communicate with those designed to the other. IPv4 systems, however, are ubiquitous and are not about to go away “over night” as the IPv...