Web-based e-service end-user adoption and implementation requires an understanding of consumer contextual factors. This paper examines specific factors which affect end-user experience and perception, motivation, support, control, and usage frequency in the online/offline user task environment and its affect on web-based e-service adoption and implementation. Understanding end-user’s continuous...

Distributed systems such as Grid- and Cloud Computing provision web services to their users in all of the world. One of the most important concerns which service providers encounter is to handle total cost of ownership (TCO). The large part of TCO is related to power consumption due to inefficient resource management. Task scheduling module as a key component can has drastic impact on both user...

Lightweight Mashup service become very prevalent now since there are lots of advantages for them, such as easy use, short development time, and strong scalability. It is a challenge problem how to recommend user-interested, high-quality Mashup services to user with the rapid development of more and more Mashup service. In this paper, we propose CSCF (a Mashup service recommendation approach bas...

Web-based electronic service (e-service) end-user adoption and implementation requires an assessment of consumer contextual factors. This paper investigates factors which affect end-user experience and perception, motivation, support, control, and usage frequency in the online/offline user task environment and its affect on web-based e-service adoption and implementation. Understanding end-user...

Many business models for smart products, like pay-per-use, require that the smart product can digitally verify whether the user has a contract with the smart product and should be granted access to privileged functionality. Traditional means to do so, e.g. password login, are very obtrusive and can thus not be applied for smart product scenarios. In this paper, we present the mechanism of assoc...

The rapid advancement of the internet is changing in the form of knowledge information service. The previous service, which was the provideroriented passive service model that supplies one-content from one device, evolves into the user-oriented active knowledge information service, therefore, the service provider provides the environment for the customers and the users create, distribute and ma...

As the world gets connected, people need to access information anywhere, anytime, whatever the device is (laptop, cellular phone...). They look for situated services that identify and package relevant context sensitive information. Situated services for mobile people must integrate 1) user profile: who the user is; 2) space: where the user is; 3) time: when the user needs the service 4) context...