One of the hottest challenges in the digital government arena is the capability of providing good quality services to citizens. The critical issue is that for a given service a citizen usually interacts with a single provider, even if service supply and management requires coordination and cooperation among many autonomous organizations. This means that a single user request spreads in the unde...

Changes in the telecommunications industry are now allowing support for cooperative provisioning of multimedia tele-services. This can provide a useful model for educational organizations to handle the inherent complexity of providing tele-educational courses while leaving them time to concentrate on pedagogical issues. The Prospect project is examining the provision and management of tele-educ...

Inter-organisational applications require improved support from middleware services. This paper analyses the management requirements of multidomain applications, covering both technological domains and organisations (administrative business domains). The analysis leads to a suggested middleware solution for these needs, presenting a group of cooperative, pervasive management services that use a...

The Open Services Gateway Initiative (OSGi) Specification defines a service-oriented cooperative framework between home and outer home. It uses the OSGi-gateways to deliver products and services to endusers, such as home security control and intelligent home equipments. The paper studies the QOS problem of OSGi technology, and puts forward the QOS problems and other limitations. And it uses Rea...

This paper focuses on context-aware data management services in grids with the aim of constructing self-adaptive middleware. The contribution is twofold. First it proposes a framework to facilitate the development of context management services. The reason is that, even a context management service, is context specific. The creation of adhoc context managers is crucial. Second, this papers intr...

In the next generation Internet, the network should not only be considered as a communication medium, but also as an endless source of services available to the end-systems. These services (i.e. Overlay Applications) would be composed of multiple cooperative distributed software elements that dynamically build an ad hoc communication mesh (i.e. an Overlay Association). In this paper we propose ...

In this demonstration we introduce Gelee, our online platform for the hosted specification and cooperative execution of lifecycles of artifacts of any kind. With Gelee we aim at filling two lacks we identify in current cooperative software systems when it comes to unstructured, artifact-based works (e.g., the writing of a project deliverable): the lack of state and the complete lack of automate...

We take a differential game approach to study the dynamic market interaction between two Internet Service Providers (ISP) offering services characterized by different quality levels. Web congestion is accounted for, consisting in the fact that for a given network capacity, i.e. for given amount of resources to be shared, the quality of services decreases with the number of customers. ISP firms,...

Published by the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (CTAHR) and issued in furtherance of Cooperative Extension work, Acts of May 8 and June 30, 1914, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, under the Director/Dean, Cooperative Extension Service/CTAHR, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96822. Copyright 2014, University of Hawai‘i. For reproduction...

The progress of the cooperative business is influenced by management pattern, type business, capital, activity its members, and others. Therefore, a needs to know whether implemented good pattern produces performance, meets expectations members. This Community Service (PkM) socialization results survey on service performance Cooperative Harapan Sejahtera-19 towards residents RW 19 Graha Housing...