Performance-based contracting in business markets

Policy based contracting in semantic web service markets

Web services generalize the idea of the Web beyond the exchange of simple Web pages in order to enable the provision of a broad range of different services. By composing Web services, cross-organizational and collaborative business processes can be realized in a highly dynamic and flexible way, which is particularly important if services have to be automatically procured at runtime. However, ac...

Condition-based maintenance under performance-based contracting

Performance-based contracting in the construction sector

Construction procurement is complex and there is a very wide range of options available to procurers. Inappropriate choices about how to procure may limit practical opportunities for innovation. In particular, traditional approaches to construction procurement set up many obstacles for technology suppliers to provide innovative solutions. This is because they are often employed as sub-contracto...

Markets and Contracting in Health Care

Performance-based contracting: emerging issues and considerations.

involves proactively identifying and assessing those at risk of developing disease, pre-emptively managing those with chronic disease and implementing broad-based interventions in early stages of disease to avoid or reduce cost and improve health. This approach requires broadening the scope, environments and capabilities in which health care organizations must operate. It also involves developi...