Abstract. Achievements and experiences in projects with focus on resource management have shown that the goals and needs of High Performance Computing service providers have not or only inadequately been taken into account in Grid research and development. Mapping real-life business behaviour and workflows within the service provider domain to the electronic level implies focusing on the busine...

there are different approaches to business model categorization. [5] in a point of view, the e-business model patterns can be categorized to content provider, direct to customer (d2c), full-service provider, intermediary, shared infrastructure, value net integrator, virtual community, and whole of enterprise.

In this paper, we introduce an analytical model for maximizing social welfare, which can be used for finding the optimal offering of a set of software services. The analytical model also explains the impact of service flexibility on customer’s selection of business services and on the revenue of service providers. The analytical model is based on a utility model and a cost model. The cost model...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Epilepsy is the most prevalent neurological disease and is characterized by recurrent seizures. Here, we investigate (i) the anticonvulsant profiles of cannabis-derived botanical drug substances (BDSs) rich in cannabidivarin (CBDV) and containing cannabidiol (CBD) in acute in vivo seizure models and (ii) the binding of CBDV BDSs and their components at cannabinoid CB1 rec...

This paper uses the term “service” for a service instance, and the term “agent” for an agent who provides or consumes a service. We consider real-life or business services (e.g., business process outsourcing, software development service involving human experts). We distinguish business from computational (e.g., Web or grid) services based on the fact that business services lack the typical inp...

The trend towards Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based distributed applications for all kind of business applications lead to a corresponding change in the Grid community. This move away from proprietary solutions and protocols for Grid applications utilizing also Web Services specifications following the SOA paradigm requires also a change of the underlying collaboration model. This model...

The O2O is a fast-growing emerging business model, the O2O business model framework is established and the most basic 7 major elements are identified in our research with Value Net theory as follow: customer, telecom operator, content provider, service provider, software provider, third-party payment platform and offline business entity. Then, we apply the Delphi method to identify 8 secondary ...