Contracting out government services, especially IT services, has accelerated in recent years in the United States. Based on literature in privatization and contracting out, the au...
The web service model provides fundamental advantages compared to the classical software usage model. But transactions in the web service market have by far not reached the expect...
Economic incentives are a powerful way of shaping consumer behavior towards more commercially efficient and environmentally sustainable patterns. In this paper, we explore the id...
: The ongoing trend towards a global services economy creates considerable market opportunities and challenges for providers of Software-as-aService (SaaS). For meeting customer ex...
Several challenges about computational grid exist in integrating, coordinating and managing of resources and scheduling of applications, due to distributed resources at various le...