The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) framework was modified with a special focus on ecosystem service values. A case study of a typical low-carbon industrial park in Beijing was conducted to assess the ecological and economic benefits. The total economic value of this industrial park per year is estimated to be 1.37 × 10(8) RMB yuan, where the accommodating and social cultural services are ...

As part of the construction of a Europe-wide Digital Business Ecosystem, in this paper we begin to ask several questions about how small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), their business processes, and the services they rely upon can be modelled. For the purposes of this paper we focus more on the subset of SMEs that can be loosely described as software producers. The Digital Business Ecosyst...

Service-oriented computing promotes the construction of applications by composing distributed services that are advertised in an open service market. In such an environment, individual services may change and evolve dynamically, requiring composite services to adapt to such changes. The prevailing strategy is to react on failures and replace the defective component of the composite service. How...

The problems related to the consumption of alcohol vary along a gravity continuum. Such a characteristic requests the construction of treatment services that assist to the needs in each one of these situations. Besides, the economical and cultural context of a given community covers the patient of particularities that need to be considered by the service of treatment. This way, the organization...

As a model for knowledge description and formalization, ontologies are widely used to represent user profiles in personalized web information gathering. However, when representing user profiles, many models have utilized only knowledge from either a global knowledge base or user local information. Ontologies have become the de-facto modeling tool of choice, employed in many applications and pro...

The Web has become a ubiquitous environment for application delivery. The originally intended idea, as a distributed system for knowledgeinterchange, has given way to organizations offering their products and services using the Web as a global point of sale. The centralized delivery-mechanism enables the construction of E-Commerce applications personalized for each user by using behavior analys...

Service-Oriented architectures and Service-Oriented Computing are the most recent approaches aiming at facilitating the design and development of applications on distributed systems. The primary goal of this paper is to investigate how the construction of mobile services can benefit from the Service-Oriented paradigm. The paper provides an elucidation of the ServiceOriented architecture. A gene...

Growth in the mobile internet services industry has seen a marked increase in the number of mobile internet services provided, and this has made proper structuring and organization of the services difficult. Present methods of service provision have proven insufficient to guide users efficiently to the services they need. To solve this problem, a task-oriented menu, which enables users to searc...

Integrating Geospatial Web Services into the enterprise business system seamlessly has become one of the major tasks in the enterprise information construction projects. The authors design a services integration system based on Bayesian Network and Service Intelligent Agents which provides an effective way for the enterprise to integrate Geospatial Web Services into the existing business system...

This paper presents our results in the field of Model Driven Design (MDD) gained in dependable, distributed application development communicating over ad-hoc mobile networks. The context of the discussion is the Highly Dependable IP-based Networks and Services (Hidenets) research project. Our efforts involve (i) construction of the platform’s UML model, (ii) construction of a metamodel illustra...