The concept of sustainable development has become an important objective of policy makers in the software industry. The most used definition of sustainability refers to dimensions of economic sustainability to ensure that software services can create economic value; technical sustainability that their technical assets actually enable the software services to cope with changes and evolution; env...

The development of organizational capabilities takes time and resources, and they are difficult to change once they have been created. Recently, also non-software companies – so-called industrial companies – have started to sell software and related services. So far it has been unclear which capabilities are needed in, and whether they differ for, different types of software business in industr...

The most important factor of High performance computing (HPC) systems nowadays is to limit or decrease the power consumption while preserving a high utilization. And with the availability of alternative energy, which powers such systems, there is a need to maximize the usage of alternative energy over brown power. For now, the usage of alternative energy is varying in time due to different fact...

Purpose: Despite the keen interest in radical and incremental innovation, few studies have tested the varying impact of firm-level factors in service sectors. This paper analyses how collaboration with existing and prospective users, and investments in knowledge management (KM) practices can be adapted to maximise the outputs of radical and incremental process innovation in a KnowledgeIntensive...

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The Cloud Computing Interoperability (CCI) is a hot research topic and has been addressed by many scientists, architects, groups etc. A lot of different approaches and possible solutions are published, but there is no accepted standard or model yet. This paper is a survey of the most influential published CCI models and discusses their possibilities and challenges. The accent in this paper is s...

Lab Service Wiki is a Semantic MediaWiki implementation for the management of a production laboratory. Here we describe its implementation on a protein service lab. Users of the service enter information about a sample and the desired analysis to be performed by using a semantic-enabled form built on top of a wiki page. After submitting, a workflow is created, and the manager of the service can...

This paper assesses the effect of attitude towards SMS technology and SMS based reminders on blood donation behaviour through a survey using a self-administered questionnaire. Specifically, the study assesses the attitude towards SMS technology and content of SMS based reminders among blood donors of the Malawi Blood Transfusion Service. Furthermore, the paper assesses the relationship between ...

As cloud computing becomes increasingly popular among enterprises, organizations, and developers, it is time to consider how Software as a Service solutions can be built rapidly and cost-effectively. This paper presents the possibility of using a service-based architecture operating within the framework of the public cloud computing model and implementing Software as a Service. It also describe...