Wireless Internet services such as mobile Web applications promise an enormous market potential. The field is characterized by extreme time-to-market pressure and insufficient knowledge about development procedures and technical constraints. This results in insufficient guidance for project managers and software developers on selecting appropriate development processes, techniques, methods and ...

That's it, a book to wait for in this month. Even you have wanted for long time for releasing this book assessing reference and user services in a digital age; you may not be able to get in some stress. Should you go around and seek fro the book until you really get it? Are you sure? Are you that free? This condition will force you to always end up to get a book. But now, we are coming to give ...

Nowadays, lots of service providers offer predictive services that show in advance a condition or occurrence about the future. As a consequence, it becomes necessary for service customers to select the predictive service that best satisfies their needs. The QuPreSS reference model provides a standard solution for the selection of predictive services based on the quality of their predictions. Qu...

Anthony S. Chow is Associate Professor in the Department of Library and Information Studies of the School of Education at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro; e-mail: [email protected]. Rebecca A. Croxton is a Doctoral Student and Instructor at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro; e-mail: [email protected]. © 2014 Anthony S. Chow and Rebecca A. Croxton, Attribution-NonCommer...

THISARTICLE WILL EXPLORE THE ROLE OF THE LIBRARIAN arid of the service perspective in the digital library environment. The focus of the article will be limited to the topic of librarian/user collaboration where the librarian and user are not co-located. The role of the librarian will be explored as outlined in the literature on digital libraries, some studies will be examined that attempt to pu...

The National Archives of Singapore (NAS) is a Singapore government organization tasked with the preservation of national records. The NAS offers a reference service where NAS staff respond to public enquiries on archival resource matters. Over time, it was noticed that certain enquiries were being asked more frequently than others. Hence, physical folders were maintained to hold information on ...

Decentralized security models and distributed infrastructures of scenarios based on Service Oriented Architectures make the enforcement of security policies a key challenge – all the more so for business processes spanning over multiple enterprises. The current practice to implement security functionality exclusively at the endpoint places a significant processing burden on the endpoint, render...