Under the intrusion or abnormal attacks, how to supply system service dependability autonomously, without being degraded, is the essential requirement to network system service. Autonomic Computing can overcome the heterogeneity and complexity of computing system, has been regarded as a novel and effective approach to implementing autonomous systems to address system security issues. To cope wi...

The first contact of TB (tuberculosis) patients with the health system occurs at the front door and is essential to access to diagnosis. The objective of this study was to identify and analyze patients' first contact with the health system for TB diagnosis in Ribeirão Preto. The study was based on an instrument of the Primary Care Assessment Tool, adapted for TB care in Brazil. Structure interv...

Service selection is a central challenge in the context of a Service Oriented Architecture. Once functionally sufficient services have been selected, a further selection based on non-functional properties (NFPs) becomes essential in meeting the user’s requirements and preferences. However, current descriptions of NFPs and approaches to NFPaware selection lack the ability to handle the variabili...

Today, many traditional manufacturing firms are focusing on their service operations, which are often seen as a better source of revenue than the first-time installations. Information and communications technology (ICT) can accelerate this process by offering efficient ways to deliver services to the customers and by allowing companies to transform their traditional product strategies to servic...

AS A RETURN ON INVESTMENT IN TECHNOLOGY T he Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council first described the “IT paradox” in 1994: “Some economic studies have suggested that the large investment in IT by the service sector has not been associated with substantial gains in productivity as measured by national macroeconomic statistics. . . . [Yet] the use of IT ...

Android smartphone is one of the items that really help humans in living life today. A person gets information through an internet connection using whenever and wherever he is. Home Services a vehicle repair service on site. Thus, customers still get without leaving activity. The Service System manual so it gives opportunity to find out about ordering scheduling services. Therefore, researchers...

Higher education has an essential role in the promotion of sustainable development. For this to be possible, use methodologies accordance with principles sustainability must fostered. This article theoretically analyzes characteristics that make service-learning effective tool for In order understand challenges involved its implementation higher education, first all, concepts development and ar...

In this paper we identify the most prominent problems of wireless multimedia networking and present several state-of-the-art solutions with a focus on energy efficiency. Three key problems in networked wireless multimedia systems are 1) the need to maintain a minimum quality of service over time-varying channels, 2) to operate with limited energy resources, and 3) to operate in a heterogeneous ...

For distributed multimedia applications, especially highly interactive applications and those relying on the transfer of continuous media, it is essential that quality of service (QoS) is configurable, predictable and maintainable system-wide, including the distributed systems platform, operating system, end-system devices, communications subsystem and network. Although researchers have address...

In real world, customers commonly take relevant attributes into consideration for the selection of products and services. Further, the attribute assessment of a product or service is often presented by a linguistic data sequence. To partition these linguistic data sequences of customers’ assessment on a product or service, a proper clustering method is essential and proposed in this paper. In t...