Due to the multiplicity of standards and complex rules; maintenance, repair and servicing of machinery could be done only by the fully qualified and proficient experts. Since the knowledge of such experts is not available all times, using expert systems can help to improve the maintenance process. To address this need and the uncertainty of the maintenance process indicators, this research prop...

in recent years, supply chain management has developed into one of the most critical strategies for achieving competitive advantage in different industries and the supplier selection process has increasingly been distinguished as an important and vital decision in supply chain management of manufacturing and service industries. on the other hand, with so many suppliers having different capabili...

As we know daily thousands of new service providers register their services in the UDDI. The number of service providers providing the same functionality increases day by day. So it is very difficult for the service requester to choose the best service provider for their requirements from the UDDI. Hence web service selection plays a huge role in providing the best web services to the service r...

Cloud computing is a recent computing paradigm that represents a fundamental change of information commu- nication technology (ICT) services and Cloud services continue to grow rapidly with increasing functionality and more users. As a result of this growth, it is a critical issue to select a suitable Cloud service which meets all the business strategies and the objectives of firms. This paper ...

In general, Policy-based approaches play an important role in the management of web services, for instance, in the choice of semantic web service and quality of services (QoS) in particular. The present research work illustrates a procedure for the web service selection among functionality similar web services based on WS-Policy semantic matching. In this study, the procedure of WS-Policy publi...

The introduction of cloud computing techniques revolutionized the current of information processing and storing. Cloud computing as a competitive edge provides easy and automated access to the vast ocean of resources through standard network mechanisms to businesses and organizations. Due to the vast diversity of service providers and their respective variety of available services with differen...

Cloud computing is a recent computing paradigm that represents a fundamental change of information commu- nication technology (ICT) services and Cloud services continue to grow rapidly with increasing functionality and more users. As a result of this growth, it is a critical issue to select a suitable Cloud service which meets all the business strategies and the objectives of firms. This paper ...