Maritime transportation market relies on a diverse set of stakeholders and it is strongly affected by their cultural and sectoral diversity. The plethora of existing telematic information services suffer from inflexibility in the sense of restricting the types of business models they allow. Thus the providers of such services are forced to assume predefined business models and processes that ar...

Service composition provides a promising solution to integrate service components and business process, enabling cooperation with new partners. It increasingly relies on multiple service providers to fulfill a given complex business goal. Despite significant progress, most approaches of service composition are still impractical and almost unusable, because the current methods of service composi...

Background Iranian single women are deprived of reproductive healthcare services, though the provision of such services to the public has increased. This study aimed to explore the experiences of Iranian single women on their access to reproductive health services.   Methods A qualitative design using a conventional content analysis method was used. Semi-structured interviews were held with 17 ...

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is one of the most promising trends in software engineering, which makes possible development of distributed systems via loosely coupled services. It provides significant efficiency in the development, deployment and execution of the software based on it and therefore could be applied to a wide range of distributed systems such as enterprise applications, emb...

ion layer dimension: target-specific aggregation and filtering of information which allows the selective hiding of company-internal information while offering to expose CBP relevant information to partners Fig. 3: Cross-organisational Business Process (CBP) Framework (Greiner and Jäkel 2007) The modelling level dimension incorporates three modelling levels: The Business level represents the bus...

Service-oriented architectures (SOAs) have provided improved means of serving data in business-to-business (B2B) communications. Usually, however, the flow of data from services is limited by the service provider, and different providers may limit to vastly different rates, leading to different quality of services (QoSs) for each. In some cases, the data from these various providers must be syn...

The technology for anonymous communication has been thoroughly researched. But despite the existence of several protection services, a business model for anonymous web surfing has not emerged as of today. One possibility to stimulate adoption is to facilitate it in a specific subnet. The idea is to identify a promising target group which has a substantial benefit from adopting the technology an...

The convergence of telecommunications industry and the Internet are about to alter the existing business models creating an open market, where a large number of independent application/service providers will offer their services to the users through a limited number of network providers. Furthermore, new concepts such as network reconfigurability and service adaptability require new advanced an...

The community and voluntary sector is a complex web of service and information providers, ranging from government agencies to small, single issue support groups. This presents a number of challenges for those working (and volunteering) in the sector and for citizens looking for a particular service. There is a clearly articulated need amongst both providers and local government to coordinate su...

Changing telecommunications market trends calls for the evolution of service creation and delivery by network operators. They need to maximize on any available form of revenue creation to avoid becoming “bit-pipes” and can achieve this by creating interfaces for 3rd party service and content providers to offer applications and services to their users. Composing and bundling of these services wi...