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SecDSIM: A Framework for Secure Data Storage and Identity Management in the Cloud
Cloud storage is a model of networked online storage where data are stored in virtualized pools of storage devices. Cloud storage requires users to host their data on the servers of cloud service providers. Th...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
IT Innovation Squeeze: Propositions and a Methodology for Deciding to Continue or Decommission Legacy Systems
Organizations have been confronted with fast moving developments in the Information Technology (IT) sector over the past decades. Many new technological paradigms have emerged and left a landscape of legacy in...
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Article
Managing license compliance in free and open source software development
License compliance in Free and Open Source Software development is a significant issue today and organizations using free and open source software are predominately focusing on this issue. The non-compliance t...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Integrated Asset Analysis Framework for Model-Driven Development of SOA Based Solutions
In SOA based application development, a plethora of architectural constructs such as processes, services and components need to be built. This requires modeling of the application at different levels of abstra...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Free and Open Source Software Adoption in Emerging Markets: An Empirical Study in the Education Sector
The adoption of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in the education sector in emerging markets holds much promise, but should be accompanied by a well-informed decision to ensure that the potential value is ...
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Chapter
Service System Approaches
Over the last several years, services science has emerged as an effective means to understand services and the socio-technical systems in which they are deployed. This systemic view requires a genuinely interdisc...
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Article
Service licensing: conceptualization, formalization, and expression
Service licensing enables a broader usage of services and a means for designing business strategies and relationships. A service license describes the terms and conditions that permit the use of and access to ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Introduction to the First International Workshop on Services, Energy, and Ecosystem (SEE 2010)
The first international workshop on Services, Energy, and Ecosystem (SEE 2010) focused on creating sustainable (green) energy-efficient services and fostering the growth towards a new eco-friendly world of ser...
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Chapter
Service Level Agreements in Cloud Computing: Perspectives of Private Consumers and Small-to-Medium Enterprises
Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are the means through which the provision of infrastructure, platform, and software services in Cloud Computing is regulated, along with functional and non-functional specificat...
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Article
BHive: A reference framework for business-driven service design and management
For business-driven service design and management, this paper outlines a reference framework called BHive that incorporates service, service contract, service architecture, and service portfolio life cycles, a...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
First-Step toward Energy-Aware Adaptive Business Processes
Energy saving has been mainly focused on techniques to extend the products longevity or to virtualize physical resources. On the contrary, less attention has been paid on the applications that run on the machi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Introduction: First International Workshop on Enabling Service Business Ecosystems (ESBE 2008)
This part of this volume contains the proceedings of the First International Workshop on Enabling Service Business Ecosystems (ESBE’08), held on December 01, 2008 in Sydney, Australia, in conjunction with the Int...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
LASS – License Aware Service Selection: Methodology and Framework
A service provider defines individual services with corresponding service licenses which consumers should follow. Often, service consumers are interested in selecting a service based on certain licensing claus...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Service License Composition and Compatibility Analysis
Services enable the transformation of the World Wide Web as distributed interoperable systems interacting beyond organizational boundaries. Service licensing enables broader usage of services and a means for d...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Free/Open Services: Conceptualization, Classification, and Commercialization
The concept of Free/Open Services (F/O-Services) emerges by bringing together services with Free/Open Source Software (FOSS). F/O-Services enable the creation of transparent composite services collectively and...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Licensing Services: An “Open” Perspective
Though service orientation is an incipient technology, the inherently infinite potentiality of services makes them to proliferate seamlessly, serving in myriad domains. Licensing of services enables to regulat...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Licensing Services: Formal Analysis and Implementation
The distribution of services spanning across organizational boundaries raises problems related to intellectual value that are less explored in service oriented research. Being a way to manage the rights betwee...
