This study examines the relationship between operation-level agility and firm performance in service industries. The study is augmented by investigating the role of IT resources and competence to achieve this specific type of agility. As of to date, most of the published literature in this stream of research has focused on manufacturing industry. This research is an early attempt to examine the...

Dynamic Web service composition is a process of building a new value added service using available services to satisfy the requester’s complex functional need. In this paper we propose the broker based architecture for dynamic Web service composition. The broker plays a major role in effective and efficient discovery of Web services for the individual tasks of the complex need. The broker maint...

Service Oriented Computing is meant to support loose relationships between organisations. Such relationships constitute co-operation procedures that translates to interaction processes via Webservices. Service composition deals with the specification and automated enforcement of such interaction processes and its predominant approach is orchestration, where a workflow management system (WFMS) i...

Order insertion often occurs in the scheduling process of logistics service supply chain (LSSC), which disturbs normal time scheduling especially in the environment of mass customization logistics service. This study analyses order similarity coefficient and order insertion operation process and then establishes an order insertion scheduling model of LSSC with service capacity and time factors ...

Service orientation has become a buzzword in research and practice during the last years. Enterprises consider investing in service-oriented architectures to increase the reuse of their existing software and to decrease development time and costs. On the one hand, standardization committees have advanced to define many layers of technical standards that are to become the technical backbone of a...

Water is an essential element of life. The government of Ethiopia in collaboration with development allies’ attempts to increase pure water supply. Even though the coverage boosted dramatically still there is critical challenges in maximizing equipment’s reliability, improving service quality, maximizing capacity utilization, minimizing life cycle costs of water production mach...