The communications development requires interaction between converging heterogeneous technology environment, with quality and continuity of services to remain competitive. The full implementation of the Future Internet concept implies in the necessity to operate among heterogeneous technology platforms with continuity of QoS (Quality of Service), what leads to the necessity of an innovative bus...

The extended use of services for cross enterprise collaboration rely on that the use and provisioning of services are simple, and yet that the provided services follows a coherent set of rules for their behaviour and interaction. This balance between simplicity and regulation is crucial for the stepwise evolution of both business and software services. In this paper we present the concept of a ...

From a business perspective, Web services represent a new channel for the offer as well as the acquisition of business capabilities. The full automation of the interaction process between providers and consumers is a peculiarity of the Web service channel. Beyond electronic data transfer, automation extends to all aspects of business interaction. The negotiation of terms and conditions for serv...

AbstrAct Services provided through the Internet serve a dual purpose. They are used by consumers and by technical systems to access business functionality, which is provided remotely by business partners. The semantics of services, multi-relational networked data and knowledge discovery in multi-relational service communities (e.g., service providers, service consumers, and service brokers, etc...

In the vision of an Internet of Services (Janiesch et al. 2008, S. 71-75), services will become tradable similar to manufactured goods. Organizations dynamically interact as service consumers and service providers making use of a service marketplace to design, offer and consume services. With the emergence of such service ecosystems (Barros and Dumas 2006, S. 31-37), the simplified consumption ...

Providing e-services and composite e-services on the Internet is an important trend of e-business. Composite e-services are complex processes which consist of various e-services provided by different e-service providers. In such complex environments, the flexibility and success of e-business depend on effective knowledge supports to access related information and resources of composite e-servic...

In New Zealand schools there is rising concern regarding pupil enrolment and absenteeism. MUSAC, a business unit of Massey University, has worked with two other service providers to devise an end-to-end tracking system for pupil attendance. The process begins with teachers entering attendance information by mobile phone and ends when the database is automatically updated with information return...

SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) is becoming a leading paradigm for the development of information systems and application integration. Web services [1] and Semantic Web [2] are emerging technologies that promote service-oriented architecture and service-oriented ebusiness systems. With open and standard application interfaces and technologies, Web services implement SOA’s features to suppor...

purpose: with the entrance of information and communication technologies (ict) in the context of libraries and with the development of electronic services, the evaluation of these kinds of services has become more important. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the quality of electronic services at the libraries of ferdowsi university of mashhad (fum) form the point of view of librarians –...

Service-oriented computing changes the face of modern software by decomposing its application logic. Now business systems can be assembled from loosely-coupled service components developed by various organizations and spread across the world. Service-Oriented Systems (SOSs) incorporate services running on different platforms and hosted by service providers outside of enterprise boundaries. This...