Newly revised data released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics show Indiana’s payroll employment climbed to 2,949,000 in January, a record for any January. That figure was about onetenth of one percent higher than January 2000 and nearly 3% above the January 1999 level. Indiana’s year-over-year gain in nonfarm employment, however, trailed both the region and the nation as a whole (see Figur...

The services and features of the Intelligent Network Capability Set 1 are briefly introduced. The service-feature relationship is analysed and simplified. This leads to the synthesis of a new multi-level relationship between services and features, allowing a more consistent construction of services from their components.

This paper proposes a method for modeling views in Grid databases. Views are understood as independent data transformation services that may be integrated with other Database Grid Services. We show examples of graphical notation and semi-automated query construction. The solution is supported by a minimal metamodel, which also provides reflection capabilities for dynamic services orchestration.

E-business in construction is not just about trading products on-line, as e-commerce was originally defined. It covers all aspects of relationships with clients, contractors, suppliers, and partners within the construction supply chain. It also includes procurement, intra-team collaboration, handling value added services like transportation, warehousing, infrastructure, and multiparty transacti...

The design of software services to support activities in Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) has been largely addressed in the “IT for Construction” research community. Nowadays prospective research efforts focus on Building Information Modelling approach and its capability to significantly improve the working practices in the future. Starting from “day-to-day” practitioners’ requi...

In this paper we look at the problem of composing services that export their behavior in terms of a transition system, characterizing the choices of actions given to a client at each point in time. The composition consists of synthesizing an orchestrator that coordinates the available services so as to mimic the desired target service asked by the client. Specifically, in this paper we study th...