The economic system has created a number of institutions which should, from the transaction cost point of view, assure the most advantageous distribution of needs. Thus the price can become a means of information, indicating the collective situation of supply and demand, according to microeconomic theory. Today’s market places are much more complex, remotely located and supported by mail and te...

Service oriented architecture is employed to cooperate with different software assets as long as they are wrapped up into web services. Under the architecture, the interoperation of telecom services and IT services is no longer an obstacle lying between the two domains. Besides, with the Web services orchestration technology, combining telecom services and IT services to rapidly develop and dep...

conclusions geographic accessibility of pharmacies at night and on holidays has to be addressed by provincial health policymakers. materials and methods the analysis was based on straight-line distance measurements. we considered 150, 300, 450, 600, and 750 m for pedestrians, and 1, 2, and 3 km for driving accessibility as the acceptable distances. we calculated the number and percentage of hou...

Visionary projections of a wide-axea network teeming with intelligent agents describe an environment where end-users and their agents can pick and choose among a great vaxiety of potentially valuable information services. However, neither network capabilities nor users’ time and money axe infinite. Computational markets provide one type of mechanism for ~llocating limited resources in such an e...

The success of the internet has made some dramatic changes in the way scientists and students are supplied with scientific literature. It has started to change into an information market, where the value of a piece of information is determined by the law of supply and demand. The customer in this market is unable to find providers delivering the desired piece of information under the his/her co...

The deregulation of the telecommunication industry is providing the basis for a competitive, open market in telecommunications services. The TINA Consortium is developing a software architecture that aims to support both communication and information services in an open services market. This paper examines the suitability of TINA for use in an open services market based on Internet technology. ...

The information services market, emerging from the convergence of telecommunications, information technology, entertainment and other industries, poses serious challenges for operational support systems. Historical ways of understanding and delivering operational support functions will no longer work. Business management functions will increasingly be a major commercial differentiator in the ne...