The future of service-centric environments suggests that organizations will dynamically discover and utilize web services for new business processes particularly those that span m...
M. Brian Blake, Michael F. Nowlan, Ajay Bansal, Sr...
This paper describes an exploratory field study on the adoption of Application Service Provisioning (ASP) in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). Rooted in Merton’s Motiva...
Grids, like other heterogeneous systems, have reached the level of maturity where they are addressing the Quality of Service (QoS) provision aspect as a fundamental part of their ...
Customers of complex IT-services increasingly demand integrated value bundles that fit their individual needs. At the same time, IT service providers are facing commoditization of...
Henrik Brocke, Thorsten Hau, Alexander Vogedes, Be...
The goal of this paper is to report our ndings as to which CORBA services are ready to support distributed system software in a heterogeneous environment. In particular, we implem...
Alpay Duman, Debra A. Hensgen, David St. John, Tay...