Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) solutions cope with two kinds of problems within software ecosystems, namely: keeping a number of application’s data in synchrony or creating new functionality on top of them. ESBs provide the technology required to implement a variety of EAI solutions at sensible costs, but they are still far from negligible. It is not surprising then that many authors ...

Vineyards shape important economic, cultural, and ecological systems in many temperate biomes. Like other agricultural systems, they can be multifunctional landscapes that not only produce grapes, but also for example serve as wildlife habitat, sequester carbon, and are places of rich traditions. However, research and management practices often focus mostly on individual, specific ecosystem ser...

Article history: Received 8 November 2010 Received in revised form 21 November 2010 Accepted 21 November 2010 Available online 17 December 2010 Information Systems (IS) publications that use interviews for data generation tend to provide very little insight into the research process andvery few rely on a carefully chosenandwell-articulated interviewing method. Given the wide variety of intervie...

Some people may be laughing when looking at you reading in your spare time. Some may be admired of you. And some may want be like you who have reading hobby. What about your own feel? Have you felt right? Reading is a need and a hobby at once. This condition is the on that will make you feel that you must read. If you know are looking for the book enPDFd designing web interfaces principles and ...

The subject of this thesis is human-product interaction, particularly interaction with consumer products. From the start of the industrial age consumer products became more and more interactive. But, as electronics became small and sufficiently cheap to be incorporated into consumer products a new type of products emerged. Because of the tiny size of the functional components the products becam...

In this paper, we propose a new method for designing rich internet applications. The design process uses results from an object-oriented analysis and employs interaction spaces as the basic abstraction mechanism. State diagrams are employed as refinements of interaction spaces and task models to specify synchronization events and follow up actions on the client and server side. The notation is ...

Information-rich user interfaces support a user’s information-driven behavior and become increasingly important as computer technologies are used more to "informate" than to automate. The critical aspect of designing such interfaces is to support effective interaction between human and information. In this paper, we develop a theoretical model that considers two components: (1) the cognitive di...

Eastern boundary current systems are among the world's most productive large marine ecosystems. Because upwelling currents transport nutrient-rich but oxygen-depleted water onto shallow seas, large expanses of productive continental shelves can be vulnerable to the risk of extreme low-oxygen events. Here, we report the novel rise of water-column shelf anoxia in the northern California Current s...

The natural world generates a range of valuable goods and services that support human well–being. !ese goods and services, collectively called ecosystem services, are typically provided free of charge and often have characteristics of public goods. Like other public goods, ecosystem services will not be provided optimally by aggregating the decisions of individuals motivated by self–interest. F...