Appearance of new services in facility management is possible only due to efficient usage of informational potential present in modern buildings. Such services (knowledge-based services) use information that is already present among the general data. Efficient usage of this information requires a close connection between the building automation and building management. This connection is carrie...

This paper describes core processes, components, and insights gained from a research internship offered through the University of Ottawa, Canada. The growing demand for high quality nursing research requires the development and implementation of strategies for enhanced research capacity. A three-month intensive internship was developed as a main feature of a nursing chair held by the first auth...

The paper addresses the problem of designing and realizing manageable multimedia services. We introduce a generic object model which includes a set of cooperating objects that can be customized for a particular service and management requirements. These objects define the interaction between the service delivery and the service management systems and cover the aspects of instantiation of a serv...

In SIP-based networks, there is a need to provide basic network media services. Such services include network announcements, user interaction, and conferencing services. These services are basic building blocks, from which one can construct interesting applications. In order to have interoperability between servers offering these building blocks (also known as Media Servers) and application dev...

The Grid has developed standards based infrastructures andservices and platforms relevant to data mining. For example, the EuropeanData Grid (EDG) provides a Relational Grid Monitoring Architecture (R-GMA) for distributed resources that expose a relational model with SQLsupport to provide static as well as dynamic information about Gridresources and for use within applicatio...

There exists a growing class of distributed applications that require adaptive middleware services, i.e., services that are able to monitor changes in the execution environment, and in the user requirements, reacting to these changes by adapting their behaviour. This paper presents a framework that supports the definition, implementation, and execution of reconfigurable service compositions, an...

Essentially all distributed systems applications and services at some level boil down to the problem of man aging distributed shared state Unfortunately while the problem of managing distributed shared state is shared by many applications there is no common means of managing the data every application devises its own solution We have developed Khazana a distributed service exporting the abstrac...

Web service architectures have gained popularity in recent years within the scientific grid research community. One reason for this is that web services allow software and services from various organizations to be combined easily to provide integrated and distributed applications. However, most applications developed and used by scientific communities are not web-service-oriented, and there is ...