This paper introduces the Aster distributed con guration-based programming system that is aimed at easing the development of emerging distributed applications having quality of service requirements. Our approach is based on high-level customization: given the speci cation of application requirements using the Aster interconnection language, a distributed runtime system, customized for meeting t...

The healthcare context is characterized with new developments, technologies, ideas and expectations that are continually reshaping the frontline of care delivery. Mannion and Exworthy identify two key factors driving this complexity, ‘standardization’ and ‘customization,’ and their apparent resulting paradox to be negotiated by healthcare professionals, managers and policy makers. However, whil...

Middleware typically provides abstractions for common tasks such as atomicity, synchronization and communication with the intention of isolating the developers of distributed applications from lower-level details of the underlying platforms. Although one would like to develop generic middleware services which can be used in a variety of different applications, efficiency considerations often fo...

Current cloud service offerings, i.e., Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Platform-asa-service (PaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offerings are often provided as monolithic, one-size-fits-all solutions and give little or no room for customization. This limits the ability of Service-based Application (SBA) developers to configure and syndicate offerings from multiple SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS p...

Developing and deploying Service-based Applications (SBAs) using different Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offerings from multiple providers in the cloud is still not possible, since current cloud service offerings are often provided as monolithic, one-size-fits-all solutions and give little or no room for customization. This lim...

Today, many government agencies provide tremendous amount of information and services via the Web, often overwhelming the citizens. Personalization and customization in delivering information and government services remains as a major challenge. In this paper, we present a novel approach for dynamically composing workflows to delivering customized government services to citizens. Such a system ...

0957-4174/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2012.02.042 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +358 40 5301032; fax E-mail addresses: [email protected] (A. Sunik (J. Bragge). 1 Present address: Aalto University IT, PO Box 1110, +358 50 5752989; fax: +358 9 464788. Personalization and customization have numerous definitions that are sometimes used interchangeably in the liter...

With a growing customization, automation and standardisation of IT services a systematic management of data on IT services becomes a pressing issue for researchers and practitioners alike. We propose Service Data Management as a cross-functional data view on services and their delivery. To this end we develop a first draft of an ontological model of common concepts of IT services. For simple IT...

In today’s information age, how to effectively integrate the information resources of tourism and leisure has received widespread attention in the tourism and leisure industry. This article analyzes platform user requirement for the current situation of single function of information service platform, and simple interactive as well as limited contents. The structure and function of hotel inform...