Dynamic Quality Management for Cloud Labor Services
Dynamic Quality Management for Cloud Labor Services

Author: Robert Kern

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-09-06

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 3319097768

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How can a scalable and efficient quality management mechanism for cloud labor services be designed in a way that it delivers results with a well-defined level of quality to the requester? Cloud labor services are a specific form of crowdsourcing: A coordination platform serves as an interface between requesters who need to get work done and a large crowd of workers who want to perform work. An early example of such a platform is Amazon’s Web marketplace Mturk, on which service requesters can publish open calls for so-called human intelligence tasks (HITs). Robert Kern’s work makes a considerable contribution toward solving the quality problem for scalable human work. On the basis of a comprehensive framework of cloud labor, he develops a set of methods to conceptually measure and aggregate the quality of human work results, implements a platform to put those methods to work, and evaluates their application in a number of very compelling, real-world scenarios successfully combining concepts from statistics, information technology, and management. Reading this book will be beneficial to novices in cloud labor services looking for orientation in this new field as well as to advanced researchers and practitioners developing cloud quality concepts.

Labour in the 21st Century
Labour in the 21st Century

Author: Emanuele Dagnino

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2017-06-23

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 1443873845

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Several major transformations have characterized the world of work in recent years. Those transformations follow different patterns in different countries, yet their dynamics are so interrelated that it is often hard, if not impossible, to distinguish the causal relationships among them. Technological advances, globalization, old and new media, demographic changes, and new production and economic systems are all key factors acting on this ongoing transformation which is impacting both the world of work and society as a whole. In the spirit of Karl Polanyi, the well-known scholar who described the rise of market-based societies, we are led to wonder if we are witnessing a new “Great Transformation of Work”, on such a scale that it might change the very meaning of work in our society, and even its anthropological connotations. Accordingly, this volume investigates and discusses the different aspects of this transformation from a comparative perspective. In order to propose better solutions to cope with these changes, it is necessary to analyze their ongoing dynamics. Lawmakers, unions, scholars and practitioners are all called to do their part in order to achieve the goals of sustainability and fairness of our economic systems.

IoT as a Service
IoT as a Service

Author: Walayat Hussain

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-07-07

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 3030959872

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This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th International Conference on IoT as a Service, IoTaaS 2021, which took place in Sydney, Australia, in December 2021. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually. The 17 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 129 submissions. The papers are divided in content-related tracks: Intelligent IoT communication solutions; Social Internet of Things: security, management; Machine learning prediction and recommendation in IoT.

Collaborative Systems for Smart Networked Environments
Collaborative Systems for Smart Networked Environments

Author: Luis M. Camarinha-Matos

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-10-01

Total Pages: 740

ISBN-13: 3662447452

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th IFIP WG 5.5 Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises, PRO-VE 2014, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in October 2014. The 73 revised papers were carefully selected from 190 submissions. They provide a comprehensive overview of identified challenges and recent advances in various collaborative network (CN) domains and their applications, with a particular focus on the following areas in support of smart networked environments: behavior and coordination; product-service systems; service orientation in collaborative networks; engineering and implementation of collaborative networks; cyber-physical systems; business strategies alignment; innovation networks; sustainability and trust; reference and conceptual models; collaboration platforms; virtual reality and simulation; interoperability and integration; performance management frameworks; performance management systems; risk analysis; optimization in collaborative networks; knowledge management in networks; health and care networks; and mobility and logistics.

Integration of Services into Workflow Applications
Integration of Services into Workflow Applications

Author: Pawel Czarnul

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2015-06-10

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1498706479

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Describing state-of-the-art solutions in distributed system architectures, Integration of Services into Workflow Applications presents a concise approach to the integration of loosely coupled services into workflow applications. It discusses key challenges related to the integration of distributed systems and proposes solutions, both in terms of th

Risk Thinking for Cloud-Based Application Services
Risk Thinking for Cloud-Based Application Services

Author: Eric Bauer

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2017-04-07

Total Pages: 487

ISBN-13: 1351977237

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Many enterprises are moving their applications and IT services to the cloud. Better risk management results in fewer operational surprises and failures, greater stakeholder confidence and reduced regulatory concerns; proactive risk management maximizes the likelihood that an enterprise’s objectives will be achieved, thereby enabling organizational success. This work methodically considers the risks and opportunities that an enterprise taking their applications or services onto the cloud must consider to obtain the cost reductions and service velocity improvements they desire without suffering the consequences of unacceptable user service quality.

Transforming Enterprise Cloud Services
Transforming Enterprise Cloud Services

Author: William Y Chang

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-11-15

Total Pages: 447

ISBN-13: 9048198461

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The broad scope of Cloud Computing is creating a technology, business, sociolo- cal, and economic renaissance. It delivers the promise of making services available quickly with rather little effort. Cloud Computing allows almost anyone, anywhere, at anytime to interact with these service offerings. Cloud Computing creates a unique opportunity for its users that allows anyone with an idea to have a chance to deliver it to a mass market base. As Cloud Computing continues to evolve and penetrate different industries, it is inevitable that the scope and definition of Cloud Computing becomes very subjective, based on providers’ and customers’ persp- tive of applications. For instance, Information Technology (IT) professionals p- ceive a Cloud as an unlimited, on-demand, flexible computing fabric that is always available to support their needs. Cloud users experience Cloud services as virtual, off-premise applications provided by Cloud service providers. To an end user, a p- vider offering a set of services or applications in the Cloud can manage these off- ings remotely. Despite these discrepancies, there is a general consensus that Cloud Computing includes technology that uses the Internet and collaborated servers to integrate data, applications, and computing resources. With proper Cloud access, such technology allows consumers and businesses to access their personal files on any computer without having to install special tools. Cloud Computing facilitates efficient operations and management of comp- ing technologies by federating storage, memory, processing, and bandwidth.

Service-Oriented Computing
Service-Oriented Computing

Author: Samik Basu

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-11-27

Total Pages: 728

ISBN-13: 3642450059

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2012, held in Berlin, Germany, in December 2013. The 29 full papers and 27 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 205 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on service engineering, service operations and management; services in the cloud; and service applications and implementations.

Advances in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing
Advances in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing

Author: Carlos Canal

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-12-13

Total Pages: 397

ISBN-13: 3642453643

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This book contains the proceedings of the five high-quality workshops organized at the Second European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, ESOCC 2013, held in Malaga, Spain, in September 2013. The workshops are: Cloud for IoT (CLIoT 2013), CLOUd Storage Optimization (CLOUSO 2013), 12th International Workshop on Foundations of Coordination Languages and Self-Adaptive Systems (FOCLASA 2013), First Workshop on Mobile Cloud and Social Perspectives (MoCSoP 2013), and the 3rd International Workshop on Adaptive Services for the Future Internet (WAS4FI 2013). The 29 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 51 submissions. They focus on specific topics in service-oriented and cloud computing domains: cloud environments, smart connectivity, context-aware computation, cloud for IoT, storage clouds, coordination languages, formal approaches to modeling and reasoning, self-systems, services for mobile devices, wireless sensor networks.

Cloud Computing
Cloud Computing

Author: Nick Antonopoulos

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-06-02

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 3319546457

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This practically-focused reference presents a comprehensive overview of the state of the art in Cloud Computing, and examines the potential for future Cloud and Cloud-related technologies to address specific industrial and research challenges. This new edition explores both established and emergent principles, techniques, protocols and algorithms involved with the design, development, and management of Cloud-based systems. The text reviews a range of applications and methods for linking Clouds, undertaking data management and scientific data analysis, and addressing requirements both of data analysis and of management of large scale and complex systems. This new edition also extends into the emergent next generation of mobile telecommunications, relating network function virtualization and mobile edge Cloud Computing, as supports Smart Grids and Smart Cities. As with the first edition, emphasis is placed on the four quality-of-service cornerstones of efficiency, scalability, robustness, and security.