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...

Service-oriented computing is an emerging IT innovation. Among its manifestations is service-oriented architecture (SOA), an architectural approach to designing and implementing IT solutions. Academic empirical research on SOA adoption is scarce, with many studies focussing on qualitative analysis. The purpose of this study is to explore SOA adoption using a quantitative approach. This study in...

AbstrAct In this chapter, a few software architectures and platforms are discussed in relation with their ability to cope with business integration problems in large, geographically dispersed companies. Of these ar-chitectures, the three-tier architecture has reached maturity and proved its usefulness in solving these problems. As an illustration of its usefulness, two successful applications o...

Recently, service-oriented paradigm is emerging as a new pattern following process-oriented and object-oriented ones in systems analysis and software development. Service-oriented High Level Architecture (SOHLA) refers to the high level architecture (HLA) enabled by Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web Services etc. techniques which supports distributed interoperating services. The detai...

Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) is a new computing paradigm that utilizes services as the primitive computing unit to support development and composition of larger-granularity services in heterogeneous environments. The specification and execution of services in such environments is meant to support agility in application structures, flexibility for business processes and development of applic...

Service-oriented computing is becoming an increasingly popular paradigm for modelling and building distributed systems in open and heterogeneous environments. However, proposed service-oriented architectures are typically based on centralised components, such as service registries or service brokers, that introduce reliability, management, and performance issues. This paper describes an approac...