Service Computing: Concept, Method and Technology

Service Computing: Concept, Method and Technology

Author: Zhaohui Wu

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2014-12-06

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 0128025972

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Service computing is a cross-disciplinary field that covers science and technology, and represents a promising direction for distributed computing and software development methodologies. It aims to bridge the gap between business services and IT services by supporting the whole lifecycle of services innovation. Over the last ten years applications in industry and academic research have produced considerable progress and success Service Computing: Concept, Method and Technology presents the concept of service computing and a proposed reference architecture for service computing research before proceeding to introduce two underlying technologies: Web services and service-oriented architecture. It also presents the authors' latest research findings on hot topics such as service discovery, recommendation, composition, verification, service trust, dynamic configuration and big data service. Some new models and methods are proposed including three service discovery methods based on semantics and skyline technologies, two service recommendation methods using graph mining and QoS prediction, two service composition methods with graph planning and one service verification method using p calculus and so on. Moreover, this book introduces JTang, an underlying platform supporting service computing, which is a product of the authors' last ten years of research and development. - Systematically reviews all the research on service computing - Introduces state-of-art research works on service computing and provides a road map for future directions - Bridges the gap between service computing theory and practice - Provides guidance for both industry and academia


Convergence in Crossover Service

Convergence in Crossover Service

Author: Jianwei Yin

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-03-24

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 9811988447

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Convergence in crossover service explores the crossover phenomenon, crossover services and the convergence issues that arise in typical crossover scenarios. Unlike traditional service integration, crossover services need to realize multidimensional convergence of pattern, design, run-time environment, quality, and value. This book creatively proposes a framework of crossover service pattern modeling, simulation, evaluation, and convergence to achieve quantitative calculation and analysis of crossover service patterns. Also, this book provides a requirements convergence modeling and analysis framework to support crossover services requirements analysis and design. In the meantime, authors develop a new crossover service network architecture to achieve efficient governance of large-scale crossover services and construct an evaluation and optimization system for service quality and value. In the case of the rural Taobao scenario, the theory and engineering methods presented in this book can provide better solutions for crossover convergence. This book is of great interest to researchers and academics wishing to see what crossover services are, how they are implemented, and what benefits they bring.


Service-Oriented Computing – ICSOC 2018 Workshops

Service-Oriented Computing – ICSOC 2018 Workshops

Author: Xiao Liu

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-04-09

Total Pages: 502

ISBN-13: 3030176428

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This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the scientific satellite events that were held in conjunction with the 16th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2018, held in Hangzhou, China, in November 2018. The ICSOC 2018 workshop track consisted of six workshops on a wide range of topics that fall into the general area of service computing. A special focus this year was on Internet of Things, Data Analytics, and Smart Services: First International Workshop on Data-Driven Business Services (DDBS)First International Workshop on Networked Learning Systems for Secured IoT Services and Its Applications (NLS4IoT)8th International Workshop on Context-Aware and IoT Services (CIoTS)Third International Workshop on Adaptive Service-oriented and Cloud Applications (ASOCA2018)Third International Workshop on IoT Systems for Context-aware Computing (ISyCC)First International Workshop on AI and Data Mining for Services (ADMS)


Survival Analysis

Survival Analysis

Author: Xian Liu

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2012-06-13

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 1118307674

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Survival analysis concerns sequential occurrences of events governed by probabilistic laws. Recent decades have witnessed many applications of survival analysis in various disciplines. This book introduces both classic survival models and theories along with newly developed techniques. Readers will learn how to perform analysis of survival data by following numerous empirical illustrations in SAS. Survival Analysis: Models and Applications: Presents basic techniques before leading onto some of the most advanced topics in survival analysis. Assumes only a minimal knowledge of SAS whilst enabling more experienced users to learn new techniques of data input and manipulation. Provides numerous examples of SAS code to illustrate each of the methods, along with step-by-step instructions to perform each technique. Highlights the strengths and limitations of each technique covered. Covering a wide scope of survival techniques and methods, from the introductory to the advanced, this book can be used as a useful reference book for planners, researchers, and professors who are working in settings involving various lifetime events. Scientists interested in survival analysis should find it a useful guidebook for the incorporation of survival data and methods into their projects.


Cloud Computing and Services Science

Cloud Computing and Services Science

Author: Donald Ferguson

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-06-03

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 3030494322

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This book constitutes extended, revised and selected papers from the 9th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science, CLOSER 2019, held in Heraklion, Greece, in May 2019.The 11 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 102 submissions. CLOSER 2019 focuses on the emerging area of Cloud Computing, inspired by some latest advances that concern the infrastructure, operations, and available servicesthrough the global network.


Consumer Behavior and Culture

Consumer Behavior and Culture

Author: Marieke de Mooij

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 2010-09-29

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 1412979900

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The Second Edition of this popular text brings up-to-date Marieke de Mooij’s important analysis of the impact of culture on consumer behavior worldwide. The author shows how it is increasingly vital for marketing students—tomorrow’s marketing professionals—to understand the limits of consistent brand identities and universal advertising campaigns. Consumer behavior is not converging across countries, and therefore it is of even greater importance to understand, and be able to respond to, differences in behavior. This edition offers a new chapter, Chapter 7, on culture, communication, and media behavior that extends the prior edition’s discussion on communication theories and advertising styles to cover differences in media usage worldwide, particularly the use of the Internet.


Consumer Behavior and Culture

Consumer Behavior and Culture

Author: Marieke K. de Mooij

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 0761926690

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De Mooij argues that differences in consumer behaviour across countries are not decreasing, but increasing. This book provides empirical evidence that the need to understand culture to explian differences in consumer behaviour is greater than ever.


Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing

Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing

Author: Honghao Gao

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-01-21

Total Pages: 697

ISBN-13: 3030675378

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This two-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications, and Worksharing, CollaborateCom 2020, held in Shanghai, China, in October 2020. The 61 full papers and 16 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 211 submissions. The papers reflect the conference sessions as follows: Collaborative Applications for Network and E-Commerce; Optimization for Collaborate System; Cloud and Edge Computing; Artificial Intelligence; AI Application and Optimization; Classification and Recommendation; Internet of Things; Collaborative Robotics and Autonomous Systems; Smart Transportation.


Knowledge and Technology Integration in Production and Services

Knowledge and Technology Integration in Production and Services

Author: Vladimír Marík

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-06-05

Total Pages: 545

ISBN-13: 0387356134

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Knowledge and Technology Integration in Production and Services presents novel application scenarios for balanced distributed and integrated systems based on knowledge and up-to-date technology and provides a great opportunity for discussion of concepts, models, methodologies, technological developments, case studies, new research ideas, and other results among specialists. It comprises the proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Information Technology for BALANCED AUTOMATION SYSTEMS in Manufacturing and Services (BASYS'02), which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and held in September 2002 in Cancun, Mexico.


Solving a Bus Driver Scheduling Problem: A Genetic Algorithm Approach (UUM Press)

Solving a Bus Driver Scheduling Problem: A Genetic Algorithm Approach (UUM Press)

Author: Razamin Ramli

Publisher: UUM Press

Published: 2013-01-16

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 9670474310

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Many transport companies face problems in regulating their transport services due to various challenges and issues. These problems affect the quality of the services provided especially in a university campus environment, where students heavily depend on the university transport services for their daily commuting.What are the problems faced by the management of the campus transport company? What are the issues raised by the drivers operating the on-campus buses? Hence, in assisting the management of the transport company the authors have identified the inefficiency of their bus driver scheduling system as one of the main problems, which needed to be tackled. For that reason, the authors developed an efficient bus driver scheduling model based on the Genetic Algorithm (GA) approach. The GA model is able to provide some resolutions and insight in relation to these inquiries: What are the constraints being considered in this bus driver scheduling problem? - How were the drivers’ break times being distributed in this GA approach? - How was the time taken to generate an efficient schedule? - For more information please visit: http://uumpress.uum.edu.my/