nowadays, new technologies have changed the methods of serving customers in many service organizations. service in the banking industry has been influenced by international communication technology (ict) developments in essential ways. nowadays the importance of websites and their unique features in provision of services to customers is increasing. however, traditional methods of banking with d...

background: different kinds and models of personal dosimeters are used in individual monitoring by workers.  performance testing as part of approval procedures is carried out to demonstrate that the essential performance specifications are routinely maintained. there are four service providers in iran which use different luminescence techniques (i. e. tld and rpl) with various kinds of dosimete...

Joins between data sources are an essential ingredient of multidomain queries, as they exploit connection patterns defined between service marts or between service interfaces. This chapter moves from the definition of a query language over service interfaces, sketching how queries can be directly expressed over service marts and how these can be translated over service interfaces. The fundament...

Service processes are becoming increasingly essential in modern economies as traditional, production-oriented industries decline. When comparing service processes to standard business processes, a major distinction is that the quality of their result, i.e., the service produced, cannot be measured in advance. Therefore, the compliance of the service process with quality standards plays an impor...

The effective governance of organizational capabilities in the areas of Service Management and Service-oriented Architectures (SOA) has been broadly recognized as an essential success factor for service-oriented enterprises. Organizations that target the adoption of an adequate Service Governance approach face the difficulty of selecting from a variety of related frameworks with differing scope...

The service-oriented paradigm plays an increasingly significant role in designing and governing IT architectures in organizations. The identification of services belongs to the most important parts of the service management lifecycle and is essential for the successful implementation of service-oriented architectures (SOA). However, existing methods for service identification mostly ignore situ...

As service-oriented networks are essential in our lives, service location, access and provisioning over wired or wireless networks govern users’ satisfaction. While they are well understood over cellular networks, it is not clear for ad hoc networks. We therefore present several approaches on service location in such networks: distributed broadcast query, query via service coordinators, and a h...

The high cost of attracting new customers on the Internet and the relative difficulty in retaining them make customer loyalty an essential asset for many online vendors. In the non-Internet marketplace, customer loyalty is primarily the product of superior service quality and the trust that such service entails. This study examines whether the same applies with online vendors even though their ...

This meta-analysis assessed the effect of community service on adolescent development and the moderation of this effect by reflection, community service, and adolescent characteristics to explicate the mechanisms underlying community service effects. Random effects analyses, based on 49 studies (24,477 participants, 12-20 years old), revealed that community service had positive effects on acade...

Service composition, which enables users to construct complex services from atomic services, is an essential feature for the usability of Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs). Service composition in MANETs should be fault-tolerant and distributed. Efforts in this area are rare and sounds not meet the requirements very well. In this paper, we present a distributed Fault-Tolerant Service Composition P...