Web services have been developed in recent years as a fundamental technique for the new generation of business-to-business (B2B) or enterprise application integration (EAI) applications. As perceived, the current development research about them is focusing on their underlying infrastructures such as SOAP, UDDI, WSDL, WSCL, BPEL, BPML, and among others. However, once such technical issues get ma...

The landscape of services in the enterprise has changed significantly for both service providers and service clients over the last few years. In the IT services domain, the mega IT outsourcing service deals with a sole provider are diminishing fast. A typical service client is now consuming multiple IT services, from specialized providers, and services contracts has become smaller in size and d...

Prosumerization is the enabling of users to act as producers. Prosumerization of content for the mobile internet, in which users are consumers and producers of content, is a recent trend. However, user-generated mobile services are the next big step for mobile service provision emerging from the prosumerization of content. Benefits for platform and telecommunication providers can be significant...

The connectivity generated by the Internet is opening unprecedented opportunities of automating business-to-business collaborations. As a result, organisations of all sizes are forming online alliances in order to deliver integrated value-added services. Unfortunately, due to a lack of tools and methodologies offering an adequate level of abstraction, the development of these integrated service...

background & aim: prenatal care is a key strategy for achieving public health goals, primary healthcare objectives, and the millennium development goals. the aim of this study was to investigate the factors influencing the use of prenatal care services in order to design suitable interventions and promote the use of these services. methods:in this systematic quantitative literature review, stud...

Steffen Higel, Dave Lewis, Vincent Wade Department of Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin The Challenges of the Information Society/ Information technology and Systems Working Paper ABSTRACT As businesses increasingly strive to offer 'service portals' on the web, their business processes are being encapsulated within web-services or offered via web services. Initially, this has been partic...

Economic theory defines services as customisable, interactive processes that providers have the potential to carry out together with clients that benefit from their effects. It is understood that service transactions are best organised by means of virtual collaborative networks, where ICT allows configuring multiple providers and processes on a per-request basis. Existing conceptual models for ...

Financial services providers are exposed to a highly turbulent environment that is characterized by an intense competition for the development of new financial products and the attraction of customers. Against this background, Grid technology assimilation can be assumed to be a potential strategic response to address fast changing market demands and to enhance the operational agility of busines...

The trend towards Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based distributed applications for all kind of business applications lead to a corresponding change in the Grid community. This move away from proprietary solutions and protocols for Grid applications utilizing also Web Services specifications following the SOA paradigm requires also a change of the underlying collaboration model. This model...