Abstract--Commercial services for provisioning software components and virtual infrastructure in the cloud are emerging. For customers, this creates a multitude of possibilities fo...
Immanuel Trummer, Frank Leymann, Ralph Mietzner, W...
Service Oriented Computing is a paradigm for developing software systems as the composition of a number of services. Services are loosely coupled entities, can be dynamically publi...
Laura Bocchi, Stephen Gorton, Stephan Reiff-Margan...
The promise of E-Government (and its more recent spin-offs of EDemocracy, E-Participation, E-Procurement, and a range of other "E-`s") is to engage citizenry in governme...
John Carlo Bertot, Paul T. Jaeger, Charles R. McCl...
In the business Grid environment, the business relationship between a customer and a service provider should be clearly defined. The responsibility of each partner can be stated in...
More and more businesses are selling products and providing services through multiple channels. 3D virtual worlds are emerging to be one of the channels for companies to communica...