—In the majority of today’s IT organizations, Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are an important means for underpinning IT service provisioning by clearly defined Quality of Ser...
Search services are now ubiquitously employed in searching for documents on the Internet and on enterprise intranets. This research develops an economic model for comparing search...
Web services are becoming an important enabler of the Semantic Web. Besides the need for a rich description mechanism, Web Service information should be made available in an acces...
Abstract. Web Services is an XML-based technology that has attracted significant attention for building distributed Internet services. There have also been significant efforts tryi...
In this paper we study a warranty servicing policy for a class of multi-state deteriorating and repairable products. The manufacturer's decision to repair or replace a failed...