This study analyzes characteristics determining member’s willingness to invest in cooperatives using ordered logit model. The data were collected in a field survey among 122 cooperative members in north-central China. The descriptive analysis of survey evidence suggests that cooperatives in China generally having poor ability to deliver the processing services related to product package, gradin...

In e-Business scenarios, an evaluation of the quality of exchanged data is essential for developing service-based applications and correctly performing cooperative activities. Data of low quality can spread all over the cooperative system, but at the same time, improvement can be based on comparing data, correcting them and disseminating high quality data. In this paper, an XML-based broker ser...

Situation dependent services are services that significantly depend on the user’s context. Considering the indiv idual needs, such services are regarded to be more beneficial to the customer than non-individual services. In this paper we present a conceptual framework and characterise a service platform for the cooperative development of situation dependent services. The framework pays attentio...

Distributed software systems would benefit from autonomous fault management capabilities, but current practice is only based on handling exceptions without attempts at identifying causes for them. This paper is a step toward Web Services with autonomous diagnostic capabilities. It provides a novel context of application for modelbased diagnosis, a context which motivates a decentralized approac...

This paper proposes a new collaboration protocol for procuring travel services within tight deadlines, where personal assistant agents, loaded onto travelers’ mobile phones, collaborate with each other to procure services available at particular time slots, such as hotel rooms, flights and concerts. A simulation model of a travel services marketplace has been built to test if the new protocol i...

A new class of systems that should appear in a next future should enable several users to lead synchronous cooperative activity by way of their computing systems. These cooperative systems should be able to operate in heterogeneous environments involved by the operating and communication environment of the user. In order to build such cooperative system it is needed to have open cooperative sys...

the performance of women agribusiness cooperatives in oyo state, nigeria was assessed in this study. the study employed a multi-stage sampling technique to select 6 women cooperative groups (aggregating to 175 individuals); 36 individual women; and 4 institutions across 6 lgas in two agricultural zones of the state. findings show that majority (55.6%) of the respondents belong to processing org...