Nowadays, Value Added Web Services (VAWS) are becoming a hot spot for web services providers. Quality of Service (QoS) support in VAWS is an important issue. The need for providing and assuring an acceptable level of QoS is the objective of most of service providers. Service providers compete in satisfying requirements of potential clients by providing QoS support of VAWS. In this work, we prop...

When measuring the importance of the energy sector in a country’s nonfinancial business economy total (Graph 1), and among the 21 Member States with data available, Slovakia was the most specialised – in terms of both value added and employment – with the industry representing 14.8 % and 3.4% respectively of its non-financial business economy. By contrast, in terms of value added, the least spe...

The Effect of Educational Expenditures on Added Value in Industrial Sector K. Shahbaazi, Ph.D. M. Hassani, Ph.D. N. Shahbaazi Since 78% of the work force in Iranian industries consists of those holding a high school diploma or less, any investment in increasing this level of education could lead to an increase in the added value in the industrial sector. Analyses of the availabl...

In this paper we describe an application based on a general approach towards modelling practical reasoning through defeasible argumentation. The purpose of the paper is to show how the incorporation of an argumentation component can add value to a collection of existing information agents. The example application is a system for reasoning about the treatment of a patient. An agent, called the D...

Producer Alliances and Value-Added Business Ventures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Soybean Production: Competitive Positions of the United States, Brazil, and Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Weather and Taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Farmland Lease Law Update . . . . . . 12 he food industry is undergoing significant structural changes, as the industrialization of agriculture con...

Fuel cells are on the verge of market entry aiming at replacing long established conventional electricity generation and propulsion technologies. Upon entrance to the /rst markets the necessarily higher costs will need to be o0set by added value to the consumer. Examples, discussed here, indicate that generally speaking the highest additional cost margins will be achievable through lifestyle or...

Given the transaction as a basic unit of analysis, a comprehensive model of value added roles can be distilled from the synthesis of network design and business process models. Any given implementation may be seen as a cluster of roles that add value for the buyer and produce revenue for the seller. The general representation of the model suggests that there are four common classes of roles fro...

The MIT Faculty has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters. Abstract Microorganisms have evolved different systems for storing carbon during times of stress. In the cell's natural environment, the stored carbon can then be utilized for growth when other nutrients are in better supply. Storage of carbon and other nutrients is ubiquitous ...