With the rise in the availability of scalable network technologies and resources, Application Service Providers (ASPs) have become increasingly more feasible sources for obtaining IS services. ASP research represents an opportunity to integrate previous research on outsourcing, applied in the area of ASP choice. Historically, outsourcing research has adopted many theoretical perspectives, inclu...

Researchers have criticized chance-corrected agreement statistics, particularly the Kappa statistic, as being very sensitive to raters’ classification probabilities (marginal probabilities) and to trait prevalence in the subject population. Consequently, several authors have suggested that marginal probabilities be tested for homogeneity and that any comparison between reliability studies be pr...

As software agents get more sophisticated, it becomes difficult to understand and model such systems. In this paper, we contend that all developers bring to the task of development some implicit or explicit assumptions of the agent communication pattern. This issue is not readily addressed in current literature and represents a gap in knowledge. For this purpose a generic pattern of inter-agent...

Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) is considered a promising approach for Software Product Line (SPL) implementation. In this paper we present the problem of dependency in inter-type method declarations as well a proposal of two new constructs to AspectJ interfaces: introduces and declares. These constructs can be used to declare and check dependency between base code and aspects in such a way t...

Asmat social worlds are permeated with multiple forms of dependency. In this paper, I ask how different modalities dependency inter-relate within the space and time life, is being reshaped by Asmat's increasing incorporation broader structural orders during a period national decentralisation. First, describe relations shape everyday through discussion quotidian food distribution concomitant cla...

This paper presents the graphical user interface InterBaseView for Inter-Base ECD + 92], a multidatabase system processing global applications written in the InterBase Parallel Language (IPL) BCC + 92] and accessing data from heterogeneous database and le systems. The primary design objective of In-terBaseView is to provide users with convenience and conndence in interacting with InterBase. Int...

This is a working paper for the XTraConServe (XTC) Project, which aims to develop concepts and support facilities for a Business Transaction Framework (BTF) that utilizes abstract transactional constructs (ATCs) to provide a generic foundation for support of complex transactional services in contract-driven inter-organizational business interactions that rely on dynamically composed web service...

Electric utilities face many uncertainties in their daily scheduling and inter-utility transaction operations. The effects of these uncertainties can propagate through the time horizon, significantly affecting the economics of schedules and transactions. With deregulation in the utility industry and increasing competition in the electricity market, these uncertainties should be properly managed...

Outsourcing has advanced to an important measure that is applied broadly in operations management. Nowadays, suppliers of manufacturing companies do not only provide direct material like raw material and operational supplements but offer components and advanced modules incurring many value-adding stages. Whereas in the past companies built up local supplier networks, they recently tend to searc...

The popularity of the e-commerce facilitates the tax evasion a lot, and the anti-tax evasion work in the e-commerce area becomes urgent. We introduced a union-bank online payment mode, which can solve many problems of existing mode such as main body status, standardization and inter-bank payment. Besides, it provides a platform for some value added services such as anti-tax evasion, anti-money ...