patient satisfaction is one of the sensitive indicators in determining the effectiveness of service rendered in hospitals. the study focus on comparing the health care services of  two cardiology based corporate hospitals in hyderabad, andhra pradesh, india. the data for the study was collected through a questionnaire consisting of two sections. an attempt has been made to elicit the informatio...

• We propose a process for the adaptation of service-oriented applications. • It is based on an optimization method. • It is based on trade-offs between functional and extra-functional requirements. • It uses metaheuristic search techniques and functional/extra-functional patterns. a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Service-oriented applications may require adaptation to tackle changing user...

The main topic of this thesis includes a large section of the Web service paradigm and its application in todays distributed systems. The main focus lies on the very specific issues of searching and discovering those services. The arising problems are of various nature. On the one hand, there is no universal approach or established method for discovering existing services to date. On the other ...

The prevalence of smart devices allows people to record their spacetime status. This paper focuses on exploiting user space-time status and the related semantic information for service recommendation. Firstly, event DAG is employed to organize the space-time information generated based on the service invocation history. Generation algorithm of the event DAG is then proposed. Secondly, a novel c...

Spacecraft applications that interact with on-board sensors, effectors, and major components have traditionally used private interfaces which are tightly bound to the interface details of the data links connecting these sub-systems. The latest spacecraft, which often include several powerful processors running real time operating systems, highspeed on-board networks, and intelligent peripherals...