Quality of Service (QoS) is one of the most important and active research topics within Grid technology. But the emerging transformation from a product oriented economy to a service oriented economy establishes a new scenario where actual QoS mechanisms need to be enforced and new QoS mechanisms needed. Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are considered the cornerstone born to fulfill those require...

The emerging transformation from a product oriented economy to a service oriented economy based on Cloud environments envisions new scenarios where actual QoS (Quality of Service) mechanisms need to be redesigned. In such scenarios new models to negotiate and manage Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are necessary. An SLA is a formal contract which defines acceptable service levels to be provided ...

Software as a service and cloud computing are new buzzwords in the Internet-based economy. Their idea is to provide software, computing and storage capacity in large, but yet unknown numbers. The legal basis of offering such services is provided by service level agreements (SLAs). In a global economy, these SLAs are often made between companies based in different countries, thus between individ...

In her article, “Kazuo Ishiguro and the Service Economy,” Kate Montague argues that Kazuo Ishiguro’s novels enact a poetics of work for present moment—not just at level narrative but also in kind language used to describe service economies his characters are doomed inhabit. best-known novels, clinical, bureaucratic, even glorifying lexicon “donations,” “completions,” “substitutions,” “lifting” ...

This study extends Baumol’s (1967) two-sector (manufacturing and services) unbalanced growth model to analyze a situation in which, first, services are used for both final consumption and intermediate inputs into manufacturing production, and second, the productivities of the manufacturing and services sectors endogenously evolve. By using this model, we examine the conditions under which the e...

Evidence is presented that the reciprocal exchange of social services among chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) rests on cognitive abilities that allow current behavior to be contingent upon a history of interaction. Food sharing within a captive colony of chimpanzees was studied by means of 200 food trials, conducted on separate days over a 3-year period, in which 6,972 approaches occurred among the...

Digital technologies are essential tools that Service-based firms can integrate into their business to transform operations. However, in the emerging countries’ perspective, research on application of digital orientation among is less researched. This poses questions scholars why adoption quite low developing economies. The purpose this article examine impediments and countries. Inspired by a r...