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HICSS
2007
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
Contract as a Source of Trust--Commitment in Successful IT Outsourcing Relationship: An Empirical Study
Existing studies on IT outsourcing have mainly examined partnership factors that influence IT outsourcing effectiveness. This stream of IT outsourcing research has largely ignored...
Jahyun Goo, Kichan Nam
CORR
2010
Springer
108views Education» more  CORR 2010»
13 years 6 months ago
Service Level Agreement (SLA) in Utility Computing Systems
In recent years, extensive research has been conducted in the area of Service Level Agreement (SLA) for utility computing systems. An SLA is a formal contract used to guarantee th...
Linlin Wu, Rajkumar Buyya
EOR
2010
110views more  EOR 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
Pricing surplus server capacity for mean waiting time sensitive customers
Resources including various assets of supply chains, face random demand over time and can be shared by others. We consider an operational setting where a resource is shared by two...
Sudhir K. Sinha, N. Rangaraj, N. Hemachandra
MSV
2004
13 years 8 months ago
Towards Quality of Service Based Resource Management for Cluster-Based Image Database
The main research in the area of image databases addresses the improvement of retrieval quality and the speedup of the query processing. A number of image retrieval systems reache...
Andreas Brüning, Frank Drews, Martin Hoefer, ...
HICSS
2003
IEEE
113views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2003»
14 years 22 days ago
Characteristics of IT Outsourcing Contracts
Once the decision to outsource an activity has been made, managers are faced with issues related to the management of the relationship with their service providers. A critical ele...
Benoit Aubert, Jean-Francois Houde, Michel Patry, ...