The increasing number of infrastructure services requires the existence of mechanisms to discover and select services and resources, called service broker, based on customer requirements. This mechanism should improve the interoperability among customer-provider and be a backward compatible and light weight approach. The introduction of semantic annotations in service description (both function...

E-services are services that can be invoked over the Internet. One likely use of e-services would be to build business applications that can employ e-services from different service providers. This potential use of composite services in business settings highlights the issues of payment mechanisms, reliability, trust, inter-operability and service guarantees between different service providers....

In today’s global economy context, since companies rely heavily on their information systems to delivery services to their Customers, any downtime can have serious impacts on their business. At the same time, the traditional approach of measuring the availability of only systems and components is no longer sufficient and must give way to a more comprehensive measurement that takes account of th...

VPN services have been available for decades but not widely used until recently. A combination of new VPN technologies, network technologies and business communication requirements is the driving force behind the take-up of VPN services. This paper gives an overview of recent VPN solutions and analyses their scalability and flexibility. VPN solutions are categorized and related to potential cus...

Good usability and user satisfaction are some of the main challenges in future wireless business from the terminal manufacturer and service provider point of view. Technological possibilities of wireless terminals and associated services increases and more emphasis must be put on finding and defining the right product features and feature sets for different customer segments. As this task deals...

Health and Technology, thank you for the invitation to provide testimony regarding the opportunities and challenges for small medical practices seeking to incorporate telehealth into everyday practice. My name is Dr. Karen Rheuban, and I direct the Center for Telehealth at the University of Virginia. I am the Principal Investigator of the federally funded Mid Atlantic Telehealth Resource Center...

OBJECTIVES To determine the need for HIV/AIDS service provision in the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality (CTMM), especially in municipal areas. METHODS The Foundation for Professional Development initiated the Compass Project. Using a questionnaire, data were collected during May - June 2010 from organisations providing HIV/AIDS services in the CTMM (organisational information and typ...

The purpose of this paper is to describe the work in progress related to the customisation, the trial and the evaluation of an innovative e-learning platform for manager upgrade in Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) in the framework of an EC funded project named InTraServ and its forthcoming re-engineering process aimed to the adoption of distributed services in the framework of another EC fund...

Virtual worlds (often referred to as 3D3C for 3D visualization & navigation and the 3C’s of Community, Creation and Commerce) integrate existing and emerging (media) technologies (e.g. instant messaging, video, 3D, VR, AI, chat, voice, etc.) that allow for the support of existing and the development of new kinds of networked services. The emergence of virtual worlds as platforms for networked s...