This paper describes and discusses a Plackett-Burman experiment aimed at increasing supermarket sales of a top-selling national magazine. The experiment involved 10 factors relating to in-store advertising and the location of the magazine within the store. We discuss issues including choice of factors, alternative designs, sample-size determination (number of test stores and the length of the t...

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is emerging to be the predominant architectural style of choice for many organizations due to the promised agility, flexibility and resilience benefits. However, there are currently few SOA metrics designed to evaluate complexity, effort estimates and health status of SOA solutions. This paper therefore proposes a SOA metrics framework which includes both ser...

The paper proposes a metric based framework for evaluating service oriented architecture. Different models and metrics have been proposed in different perspective for evaluating service oriented architecture, but it has been recognized that the available models and metrics are insufficient. This paper gives a software standard based way to identify measurable attributes to propose metrics. This...

Service-oriented architectures (SOA) offer a conceptual and technical solution for many problems. However, the realization and even more the management of a SOA often remains a very hard task. A continuous evaluation of existing services and service candidates is necessary to implement, maintain and enhance a SOA. This is far from being trivial because of the semantic gap between requirements a...

Investigation into the causes for low ITproject success rateshasdominatedboth the ITproject managementliteratureandthefocusofITprojectmanagementprofessionalsfordecades.Manyfactors, includingavarietyofhardskillsandsoftskills,havebeenproposedtohaveaneffectonITproject success.Thisstudypresented142suchfactors,collectedfromtheITprojectmana...

This paper compares the hierarchical structure between SOA and integration information service platform in rural informatization, analyse the main problems in the macro level of rural information and gives some strategy advices in service-oriented integration information service platform on rural informatization. Through the implementation of pilot projects, it is proved that the SOA architectu...

Genomics research presents technical, computational, and analytical challenges that are well recognized. Less recognized are the complex sociological, psychological, cultural, and political challenges that arise when genomics research takes place within a large, decentralized academic institution. In this paper, we describe a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)—MaPSeq—that was conceptualized an...

In this paper we analyse the applicability of our ontology based context modelling approach, considering a range of use cases. After wrapping up the model and the Context Ontology Language (CoOL) derived from it, we introduce some interesting applications of the language, based on a scenario showing the challenges in context aware service interactions. We focus on two submodels of our model for...

Serious Games (SGs) have a lot of potential in education, possibly making learning more engaging and satisfying. Adaptive Games strive to keep the challenges presented by the game balanced with the player’s abilities, as to keep the player in the “flow” state. We have used a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) approach to develop a simple adaptive SG for teaching basic elements of probability t...