Human capital is of paramount importance in the ICT industry. This paper analyses one of the elements which underlies effective management of human assets: performance assessment. This analysis uses the development of a common standard based on the tasks and processes outlined in People CMM, the standard in human resource management designed by the Software Engineering Institute. This framework...

Human capital is of paramount importance in the ICT industry. This paper analyses one of the elements which underlies effective management of human assets: performance assessment. This analysis uses the development of a common standard based on the tasks and processes outlined in People CMM, the standard in human resource management designed by the Software Engineering Institute. This framework...

SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE ADOPTION IN E-EDUCATION SYSTEM

The introduction of a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) can affect performance in a negative way. This exacerbates the application of SOA to systems for bulk data processing. This paper describes specific aspects of Service-Oriented Architectures that impact performance particularly. It discusses several approaches to these issues that are currently established and motivates the need for a fr...

Service-oriented computing, which offers more flexible means for application development, is gaining popularity. Service-oriented grid applications are constructed by selecting and composing appropriate services. They are one kind of promising applications in grid environments. However, the dynamism and autonomy of environments make the issues of dynamically adapting a service-oriented grid app...

We present a systematic means of designing serviceoriented systems. Because services are developed independently, with no prior knowledge about each other, there is only a limited possibility that such services use similar message templates, initiate calls to any other service, or generate messages to support desired architecture configurations. As a result, construction of service-oriented sys...

Service-oriented computing is playing an important role in several domains. Today the biggest shift in mainstream design and programming is toward serviceoriented applications. However, the service paradigm raises a bundle of problems that did not exist in traditional component-based development where abstraction, encapsulation, and modularity were the only main concerns. Due to their distribut...

We propose a composable, loosely coupled Service-Oriented Architecture for middleware-independent Grid job management. The architecture is designed for use in federated Grid environments and aims to decouple Grid applications from Grid middlewares and other infrastructure components. The notion of an ecosystem of Grid infrastructure components is extended, and Grid job management software desig...

Outsourcing is a strategic option which complements IT services provided internally in organizations. The maturity model for IT service outsourcing (henceforth MM2GES) is a new holistic maturity model based on standards ISO/IEC 20000 and ISO/IEC 38500, and the frameworks and best practices of ITIL and COBIT, with a specific focus on IT outsourcing. MM-2GES allows independent validation, practic...

Alireza Poorebrahimi Department of Information Technology Management, Islamic Azad University, Science & Research Branch of Tehran, Iran Email: [email protected] Firouzeh Razavi Department of Information Technology Management, Islamic Azad University, Science & Research Branch of Tehran, Iran Email: [email protected] Fatemeh SoleimaniRoozbahani Razavi Department of Information Techno...