Pervasive Service Computing for Elderly applies service composition and pervasive computing into assisting elderly Activities of Daily Life. Taking advantages of context-awareness and service-oriented computing, Pervasive Service Computing expects to bring brilliant opportunities for pursuing global successful ageing. This paper proposes a Pervasive Service Computing for Elderly (PSC4E) framewo...

Chloride attack is one of the most critical deterioration due to rapid corrosion initiation and propagation which can cause structural safety problem. Extended service life through repairing is very important for determination of maintenance strategy. Conventionally adopted models for estimation of life cycle cost have shown step-shaped elevation of cost, however the extension of service life i...

Ability to offer a citizen-centric view of government model is the key to a successful e-government service. Life-event model is the most widely adopted paradigm supporting the idea of composing a single complex egovernment service that corresponds to an event in a citizen’s life. Elementary building blocks of Life-event are based on atomic services offered from multiple government agencies. Th...

Reinforced concrete (RC) Structures constructed over six decades ago are now approaching the end of their service life and showing serious level of deterioration and therefore, prediction of service life of structural materials and components has gained significance. With the increased efforts of researchers, development in computer knowledge and advancement in building materials science, it is...

Section 3: The Service Revolution 10 3.1 Service visions and ambitions 10 3.2 Service developments 11 3.3 Transition to total service providers 14 3.4 Factors affecting transition 17 3.4.1 Communicating the through-life service vision 18 3.4.2 The level of business conducted under through-life-type contracts 18 3.4.3 Maturity of lean implementation 19 3.5 The increased strategic importance of C...

Most of today’s organizations are still far from profiting from the full potential of web service technology. Organizations invoke each other’s web services, but do hardly synchronize the life cycles of individual web services with each other. When realizing an integrated service this might cause failures and requires a governance method for synchronizing the life cycles among organizations. In...