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The paper describes a new business model of a cloud voting service changing from selling specialized equipments and installation to providing Internet services through personal mobile devices. This incremental innovation requires only existing technologies such as general Internet service facility and web/mobile system development. The new cloud voting service releases the limitations of specialized...
Single professionals and small companies come together and form virtual communities to compete with global players. In these collaboration networks, the actual business partners are discovered and alliances formed on demand. However, it is impossible for single members to keep track of the dynamics in large-scale networks. With the wide adoption of service-oriented architectures (SOA), interactions...
Interoperability is a collaborative and multifaceted task to overcome the problems of incompatibilities among organizations, structures, data, architecture, services, and business rules. To achieve interoperability, the aspect for interoperability and requirements for applications and services must be known. SC3 provides Ubiquitous Life Care (u-Life care) for robust healthcare services, service suggestions,...
We believe that a market-based resource allocation will be effective in a cloud computing environment where resources are virtualized and delivered to users as services. We propose such a market mechanism to allocate services to participants efficiently. The mechanism enables users (1) to order a combination of services for workflows and co-allocations and (2) to reserve future/current services in...
Recently, ubiquitous environments have been extensively studied, and hardware environments (e.g., network or small devices) will be available soon. When the hardware environments become available, problems related to service provisioning will still remain. Device (resource) conflict or service conflict will occur in multi-user actual ubiquitous environments. The methods to solve these problems, which...
Recent use of web services has spread over a wide variety of application areas. Users are requested to disclose private information for the use of web services. Such a disclosure is facing the risk of leaking private information. Privacy leakage is becoming one of the serious social problems. For the better use of web services, it is necessary to provide a reliable scheme for privacy management. There...
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