In real-world scenarios, massive demands mi ght be simultaneously raised by massive customers. Mass customization (MC) of services is a cost-effective approach to deal with this scenario by offering a cus tomizabl e composite service that satisfies as many personalized requirements as possible. In this paper, Service Network (SN) is employed to repres ent a customizable composite service, so th...

Quality of service (QoS) is increasingly being used to describe a broad collection of attributes, ranging from the performance-centric metrics used in the networking community to other metrics related to reliability, timeliness, and security. Moreover, QoS is also being applied to guarantees provided by a wider variety of services, ranging from communication services to higher level middleware ...

Abstract Background In recent years, there has been a growing interest in health care personalization and customization (i.e. personalized medicine patient-centered care). While some positive impacts of these approaches have reported, dearth research on how are implemented combined for delivery systems. The present study undertakes scoping review articles customized to describe which patient ch...

In the ICEBERG project at U. C. Berkeley, we are developing an Internet-based integration of telephony and data services spanning diverse access networks. Our primary goals are extensibility, scalability, robustness and personalized communication. We leverage the Internet’s low cost of entry for service creation, provision, deployment, and integration. In this article, we present our solutions ...

The establishment of service orientation in industry determines the need for efficient engineering technologies that properly support the whole life cycle of service provision and consumption. A central challenge is adequate support for the efficient employment of complex services in their individual application context. This becomes particularly important for large-scale enterprise technologie...

This paper describes the deployment of speech technologies in STARHome, a fully functional smart home prototype. We make use of speech and speaker recognition technologies to provide three voice services, namely, voice command for controlling home appliances, voice biometric for entrancedoor access control, and service customization (speaker-loaded command control). Several ergonomic constraint...

Modularity in services has emerged as a promising design approach that offers a sound balance between cost-efficiency in service production and customization. However, the existing literature draws on a narrow scope of service design that considers certain characteristics of service as constraints to the successful adoption of the concept, i.e. service modularization. The growing importance of ...

As Web service becomes pervasive, the importance of scripting capability for connecting distributed components leads to a new XML technology, SOAP. Although SOAP is ready to use in B2B situations, some underlying infrastructure should resolve two issues; exploring parallelism and script customization. We adopt both the SOAP and mobile agent technologies and test the idea with Apache SOAP server.