In order for service-oriented architectures (SOAs) to deliver their true value for the business, e.g. flexibility and transparency, a holistic service management needs to be set up in the enterprise. To perform all the service management tasks efficiently heavy support by automated processes and tools is necessary. This article describes a service description approach that is based on OWL-S (We...

agricultural extension is a client-oriented service the effectiveness and efficiency of which depends on the clientele’s satisfaction. extension agents’ performance is one of the indices of extension services' performance. extension agents’ performance has been assessed in different such ways as: study of their supervisors’ view points, study of agents’ themselves reports and as well study...

A central problem in designing effective models of provider governance in health systems has been to ensure an appropriate balance between the concerns of public sector and/or government decision-makers, on the one hand, and of non-governmental health services actors in civil society and private life, on the other. In tax-funded European health systems up to the 1980s, the state and other publi...

In SOA (Service Oriented Architecture), web service providers use service registries to publish services and requestors use registries to find them. The major current service registry specifications, UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration), has the following drawbacks. First, it replicates all public service publications in all UBR (Universal Business Registry) nodes, which is n...

the article by brenna and spandonaro on interregional mobility for acute hospital care in italy raises important issues concerning social and territorial equity in a healthcare system. based on regions and private providers’ strategic behavior, the hypothesis adopted to explain patient cross-border mobility (cbm), demonstrated by statistical analysis, may be further explored using qualitative m...

ABSTRACT- According to article 44 of the I.R. of Iran Constitution, the Iranian economy consists of three sectors; the state, the cooperative, and the private sectors. The aim of this study was to present a hierarchy of criteria for selecting the best economic sector for agricultural development. Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) was used to calculate the relative importance of either criteria o...

How to discover the Web Services which fit to the requesters’ needs from an increasingly large-scale services registry in a fast and accurately way is a key problem in Web Services research. Applying clustering method to improve service index structure in service registry is a feasible way to this problem. For the existing service clustering methods are time-consuming, only produce static and s...

the type of the applications for which internet is being used has changed over the years. multimedia applications, real-time applications and game playing require quality of service. ieee has proposed ieee 802.11e, a quality of service extension to the wireless lan standard ieee 802.11. in this paper service differentiation ability of 802.11e is evaluated. identical traffic is considered for al...

The price of Internet services is user information, and many pay it without hesitation. While myriad privacy tools exist that thwart the detailed compilation of information about user habits, these tools often assume that reduced functionality is always justified by increased privacy. In contrast, we propose the adoption of functional privacy as a guiding principle in the development of new pri...