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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...
The Application Service Provider (ASP) is a pivotal point in the organization of information systems, since it brings up a new paradigm: “make, buy or rent”. An ASP is a compa...
The Application Service Hosting Platform (ASHP) has recently received tremendous attention from both industry and academia. An ASHP provides a shared highperformance infrastructur...
This paper proposes a novel approach for managing IP-based services and applications, reflecting the authors’ experience with the IBM Global Network. It describes how one can e...
We believe that the next evolutionary step in supporting wide-area application and services delivery to customers is a network framework that provides for collocation of applicati...
David J. Korsmeyer, Edward T. Chow, Michael P. Con...
The Grid is realizing the vision of providing computation as utility: computation jobs can be scheduled on-demand in Grid hosts based on available computation capacity. In this pa...
A prominent trend in the software industry in the late 1990s was the development of the application service providing business model. Application service providers (ASP)1 offer th...