From January 2003 to December 2011, over 50,000 service members were medically evacuated from the Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF)/Operation New Dawn (OND) theater of combat operations to a medical treatment facility outside of theater. During the period, the numbers and underlying causes of medical evacuations sharply varied in relation to the numbers of deployed service members and the natures o...

It is a difficult issue to support interactive image processing software in grid environment, which requires special mapping methods over grid architecture. Interactive service packaging, mapping of interactive interface mechanism are reviewed in heterogeneous grid architecture. Grid Service Automated Packaging and Generating System (GS-APGS) for image processing software is designed to provide...

The importance of services and product service systems is constantly rising. Internationalization makes it especially for small companies increasingly difficult to meet the service requirements of their customers. Cooperation by combining various competences of all involved partners into a service-network is an option for a flexible solution for this problem. This paper answers some of the conc...

Incentive scheme for stimulating service provision in Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANET) has been under intensive investigation due to its significance to the operation of MANET. This paper applies distributed algorithmic mechanism design and utilizes Vickrey auction for service allocation in mobile ad hoc networks. We show that our method stimulates service provision and achieves desired system-wi...

Abstract This paper proposes the methods of the operation-oriented software availability measurement and assessment. Considering the difference of the software failure-occurrence phenomena and the restoration characteristics between the testing and the operation phases, we first introduce the environmental factors into the existing Markovian software availability model. Next we discuss the stoc...

This paper proposed a digital municipal management platform based on service-oriented architecture. It aims to realize data sharing and system integration between the municipal enterprises. This platform adopts spatial information knowledge, network and database techniques, which includes hardware and software background layer, data layer, basic management layer, operation service layer and app...

In this position paper we propose a framework for proactive SLA negotiation that integrates this process with dynamic service discovery and, hence, can provide integrated runtime support for both these key activities which are necessary in order to achieve the runtime operation of service based systems with minimised interruptions. More specifically, our framework discovers candidate constituen...

Introduction: The increasing need for support services and the fragmented nature of the service system challenge us to develop services for children and their families. Child and family services are provided by the public, private and third sectors, which according to research have little or no reciprocal co-operation. As many practices have moved towards family-centrality, the need for personn...

An efficient conference service facilitates the implementation and run-time control of conference applications. Beside key features of a conference service like conference management, multipoint communication support, and application state synchronization, the reconfiguration of such environments is crucial for the scalability and availability of the service. The paper proposes a reconfiguratio...