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Recently, flexible networks contain various services designed and implemented by different vendors to accomplish specific tasks. Trust to security systems of such services is a significant challenge. In this paper, we propose a framework to assess trust to security systems of web services based on security policy specifications and security mechanisms running on flexible networks. The framework may...
This paper deals with home batteries and their economic viability under a service in which a prosumer possessing a roof-top PV system can purchase a battery system with the special price from an electricity provider and obtains annual fees for assumed time period. It is done in exchange for sharing some part of battery capacity with the entity. The aim of this study is to check whether it is economically...
IT is a major driver of business model innovation and servitization. Representations of business models are widely used tools for analyzing instances of these developments as well as for the ideation of novel services and service business models. However, current representations of business models fail to capture essential aspects of service, such as co-creation. In response to these shortcomings,...
Business models are a widely used concept to analyze existing and design new offerings. Applied in service environments, however, existing business model approaches are reaching their limits. Service specific aspects, like co-creation, are not taken into account. Based on the Business Model Ontology by Osterwalder, this paper discusses the impact of co-creation on business models and suggests requirements...
This paper provides a model for internet of things (IoT) establishment. Today and for the coming decades we see rising interest in interconnecting ‘Things’ as we did in the past two decades when we interconnected PCs and servers to build the called Internet. Smart things interconnection is more general and complex due to different challenges: heterogeneity of devices, diversity of protocols, variety...
This paper discusses the price discrimination in wireless service allocation on the basis of game theory. The wireless service providers can supply the service with different prices. Two service price discrimination models are proposed. The first one is one wireless service provider with n types of wireless users. Each type has different preference parameter. The wireless users are proved to be individual...
Brand development in a company which functions in some particular economic sector involves a range of specific measures on branding. In particular, the specifity of working with a freight-forwarding company brand is caused by the fact that such companies belong among the following groups of organizations: 1) operating in service-business, 2) operating mainly in B2B-area, 3) operating in transport...
This empirical study is obviously to identify what knowledge should be included in the curriculum so that accounting students would be adequately prepared for future roles in the profession. The respondents for this study are from accounting practitioners such as business enterprise, government sector and chartered public accountant firm whilst academics from Malaysian public universities. The objective...
In 2008, ice and snow disaster had made a great influence on control services to every power station, so in order to improve the ability of electric power communication net to cope large-area ice and snow such as in 2008, it is necessary to consider emergency channel of control signal as stand-by channel. Security and stability service is an important guarantee to grid running. This paper reveals...
The Internet of Things is a rapidly growing concept in recent years. It refers to the idea that every physical thing in this world can be also connected to the Internet as well as computers. As the development of embedded systems, computing, and networking, the growing number of physical objects in our daily life become addressable through a network, however, more and more resources along with privacy...
Cloud computing is the future trend for enterprise software solutions, which means a lot of legacy systems will need to be either adapted to fit the requirement of cloud computing or to be purged and redesigned from scratch. However, enterprise software is far too complex for any human being to understand as a whole. This paper proposes a novel approach to reengineering enterprise software for cloud...
Enterprise as a sociotechnical system consisting of interacting human and man-made agents is analysed using agent-oriented models. Two fundamental types of enterprises are distinguished based on their sales and planning processes. The categorization and analysis can be used for automation by software agents or robots.
Enterprise Architecture is an important basis for aligning enterprise strategy with resources. Using a new perspective on economic exchange - the so-called Service Dominant logic - DYNSEA a dynamic enterprise architecture consisting of interacting service systems is developed. Central to DYNSEA is the co-creation of value with an actively involved customer, called prosumer. In DYNSEA service systems...
Accurate estimation of quality of online services is both an important and difficult problem, since a service has many interdependent quality attributes influenced by several contextual factors. It is even more challenging as quality ratings come from sources with unknown reliability, each source may rate a service on different quality aspects. Although several solutions have been proposed, there...
The purpose of this study is to review the characteristics of Web portal quality from the end-users' perspective and to propose a Web portal quality model. In this study, the quality of web portals consists of three basic components: the information content (e.g., accuracy and applicability), the physical medium (e.g., timeliness and speed), and the service (e.g., reliability and responsiveness of...
In the course of constructing service government, service concept should be formed and service quality should be improved. On the basis of customer satisfaction theory, this paper researches on enterprises' satisfaction to the economy and trade board in Yiliang County by developing a questionnaire. At the first, this paper reviews literature about customer satisfaction. Secondly, it designs index...
Marketing competitiveness is the core of enterprise competitiveness. How to measure and evaluate marketing competitiveness is the important issue that facing enterprises marketing. This study explores the measurement of marketing competitiveness. The authors put forward with a framework for measuring marketing competitiveness including five facets as product, distribution, service, personnel and industry,...
The provision of additional services to accompany the sale of products is increasingly central to the business strategies of companies in manufacturing and engineering, often referred to as aftermarket services (AMS). The purpose of this paper is to explore the experience of expanding AMS in the context of a leading organization in the engineering sector. The paper explores the meaning of - and rationale...
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