Benchmarks provide repeatable workloads for testing and comparison. An ideal file service benchmark would be easy to use, be highly configurable to emulate arbitrary workloads, and scale to extreme load levels and data set sizes. This paper introduces Fstress, a synthetic, flexible, self-scaling file service benchmark. We identify and support twelve workload-description parameters, enabling a w...

Leveraging service oriented programming paradigm would significantly affect the way people build software systems. However, to achieve this goal a solid software design methodology should be grounded on proper mathematical foundations, specific service-oriented principles, concepts and patterns. This paper contributes to the above goal proposing a lightweight, but complete, mathematical framewo...

As the Cloud computing appears to be part of the mainstream computing in a few years, the number of the services it provides, its users, and the requests of these services will be on the rise accordingly. To deliver satisfactory experience to Cloud users, it is essential that highly scalable techniques for service discovery should be available. We embarked on a preliminary study, in Cloud envir...

This presentation will demonstrate how public mental health systems can deliver accessible, effective and clientcentred eating disorder treatment. It will provide an overview of service development over time aimed at increasing workforce capacity, responsiveness of service provision, improved access and better integration of all essential elements of care. The presentations will describe and di...

certain advantages of service-oriented architecture have led to the spread of this type of architecture around the world. however, some special features of this type of architecture have led to more compromise between the security in the information system and other information systems. the purpose of this paper is to identify and examine the impact of factors and dimensions of the information ...

The first WHO essential drugs list, published in 1977, was described as a peaceful revolution in international public health. The list helped to establish the principle that some medicines were more useful than others and that essential medicines were often inaccessible to many populations. Since then, the essential medicines list (EML) has increased in size; defining an essential medicine has ...

ion and Stepwise Refinement The specifications described above must embody the key concept of Abstraction if they are to be successful. To be abstract, a specification must include the essential requirements that an object must satisfy and omit the unessential. A service specification is abstract primarily in the sense that it a specification must include the essential requirements that an obje...

Accessible and efficient service are vital features of well-utilized public transit systems. Modeling approaches to support the evaluation of transit operations for management and planning are essential for continued improvement. A hybrid coverage model is developed in this paper for simultaneously expanding service access and increasing accessibility. This paper discusses the use and integrati...

While John Dewey’s learning theory has been widely credited as the essential theoretical underpinning of service learning, lesser attention has been paid to his concept of moral imagination regarding its immense potentials in nurturing college students’ moral growth in service learning. Th is article explores Dewey’s framework of moral imagination and its implications for moral education in col...

Evidence exists that service quality delivery through Web sites is an essential strategy to success, possibly more important than low price andWeb presence. To deliver superior service quality, managers of companies with Web presences must first understand how customers perceive and evaluate online customer service. Information on this topic is beginning to emerge fromboth academic and practiti...