Powerline communication (PLC) provides inexpensive, secure and high speed network connectivity, by leveraging the existing power distribution networks inside the buildings. While PLC technology has the potential to improve connectivity and is considered a key enabler for sensing, control, and automation applications in enterprises, it has been mainly deployed for improving connectivity in homes...

Lapalme describes enterprise architecture as if it implements one of three completely different viewpoints, however Burk at OMB described enterprise architecture as having three different levels. Related, the PMBOK describes three levels of management. Hite at GAO describes a fourth process of managing enterprise architecture itself. This paper presents a unified view, with five total enterpris...

System designers find it difficult to obtain insight into the potential performance, and performance problems, of enterprise applications based on component technologies like Enterprise Java Beans (EJBs) or .NET. One problem is the presence of layered resources, which have complicated effects on bottlenecks. Layered queueing network (LQN) performance models are able to capture these effects, an...

The idea of the enterprise architecture (EA) has been active since 1980-ies. However, enterprise architecture performance attributes analysis still lacks a clear approach and tools for implementing it in practice. The paper presents an approach for the model-driven performance evaluation of the EA models. The suggested approach is based on the Unified profile for MODAF and DoDAF (UPDM), System ...

As Cloud software (Software-as-a-Service) become more and more ubiquitous, the scale and performance expectations become an important factor impacting architectural decisions for security protocol adoption. WS-Trust[6] and WS-Federation[7] are enterprise scale protocols but lacked wide adoption due to complexity. OAuth 1.0 emerged as an industry standard for unifying identity management for maj...

[Abstracts] Workflow logs that record the execution of business processes offer very valuable data resource for real-time enterprise performance measurement. In this paper, we proposed a novel scheme that uses the technology of data warehouse and OLAP to explore workflow logs and create complex analysis reports for enterprise performance measurement. Three key points of this scheme were studied...

As E-commerce is developing in China, using E-commerce becomes more important to small and medium enterprise (SMEs). The small business has several advantages, including low cost and the ability to begin on a part-time basis. E-business technology can strengthen these advantages. In this paper, the authors introduce the ECRM and E-business strategy in enterprise and use VAR model to analyze how...

Middleware database replication is a way to increase performance and tolerate failures of enterprise applications. Middleware architectures distinguish themselves by their performance, scalability and their application interface, on one hand, and the degree to which they guarantee replication consistency, on the other. Both groups of features may conflict since the latter comes with an overhead...

Quality in its contemporary incarnation is commonly referred to as organizational excellence, enterprise excellence, business excellence, or performance excellence. While technology may serve as a key enabler of enterprise excellence, enterprise excellence itself is in large enabled by the human dimension both in terms of ideation and effort. The human dimension manifests in many ways, with peo...

Business contracts are the key governing mechanism for inter-organizational collaboration and they are increasingly taking a central role in e-commerce, e-business and extended enterprise governance related to key process integration, exchange of knowledge and information and as drivers for performance. This research is motivated by the critical problem of stark incompatibility between the cont...