XML is being accepted as a standard format for representation and exchange of web data. XML message brokers play a key role as message exchange points for messages sent between producers and consumers. An XML message broker can perform filtering, transformation, and routing of received messages. In certain applications, XML message brokers may need to perform advanced customization (value-addit...

The authors examined 2 forms of customization in a Web-based recruitment context. Hypotheses were tested in a controlled study in which participants viewed multiple Web-based job postings that each included information about multiple fit categories. Results indicated that customization of information regarding person-organization (PO), needs-supplies, and demands-abilities (DA) fit (fit informa...

With the developing technology, production model, which is structured in line with user requests, has become a very popular topic. This expresses individualization, increasingly common. For this reason, it attracts attention of many researchers and company executives. At point, studies are concentrated on concept mass customization, personalized production. Considering related studies, various ...

The customization of Machine Translation systems concentrates, for the most part, on MT dictionaries. In this paper, we focus on the customization of complex lexical entries that involve various types of lexical collocations, such as sub-categorization frames. We describe methods and tools that leverage existing parsers and other MT dictionaries for customization of MT dictionaries. This custom...

This research project investigated the subject of Internet banking activities for a major credit union in California. Community banks have not been the research focus for Internet banking. While large scale banks concentrate on applying information technology to improve their customization, smaller banks have to rely on their mobility, personal touch, and marketing techniques for individual cus...

Cloud computing is growing rapidly, with applications in almost all the areas. SaaS (Software as a Service) is a modern approach to deliver large scalable enterprise software as a service on Internet. Cloud platform provides the scalability, availability and utility computing for services on Internet. There are many technical challenges involved in SaaS development. One of them is multi-tenancy...

The matchmaking is a crucial operation in Web service discovery and selection. The objective of the matchmaking is to discover and select the most appropriate Web service among the different available candidates. Different matchmaking frameworks are now available in the literature but most of them present at least one of the following shortcomings: (i) use of strict syntactic matching; (ii) use...

The software realization of distributed systems is typically achieved as loose coalitions of independently created services. The selection of such services, to act as building blocks of a distributed system, is a critical task that requires discovery and matching activities. This selection task is generally based on simple matching techniques and without any notion of customization. This paper ...

The Internet provides an unprecedented capability for sellers to learn about their customers and offer custom products at special prices. In addition, customization is more feasible today because of advances in manufacturing technologies that have improved sellers’ manufacturing flexibility. We first develop a model of product customization and flexible pricing to incorporate the salient roles ...