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Service contracts function as interfaces which bridge IT implementation, business modeling, and economical analysis among stakeholder. We report a review of recent research/practice(to be completed) with focus on contract content and contract management. Dimensions of { Quality of data(QoD), Quality of service(QoS), Legal issue, Context, Business term } and { Description of contract, Monitor/Control,...
Currently the market for service robots is expanding very fast. Special attention is given to robots designed to assist elderly persons with degenerative mental and physical abilities, technology which has arisen from the demand associated with recent demographic changes. Therefore, several mobility aids equipped with assistance functions such as obstacle avoidance were developed in recent years to...
Corruption or graft which is ubiquitous is a problem that affects many nations around the world. It is a quandary of both developed and developing nations that could bring about economic, social-cultural and political implications. Most countries, including Malaysia is currently outlining initiatives in stamping out corruption in the country. Drawn from an ongoing research, this paper aims to highlight...
Islamic banking and finance have gained popularity all over the world. However, differences of opinions and understandings could trigger potential disputes and misunderstandings, even for the area of Islamic banking and finance. Some of the disputes as settled by resorting to litigation, while others are resorted to out-of-court settlements. Drawn from an ongoing research, this paper aims to highlight...
Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) is a term that covers a variety of different ways of facilitating the resolution of disputes without recourse to the courts. It can involve different processes and can be triggered by different events in different countries. There are various ADR mechanisms available, including mediation, conciliation, adjudication, expert determination, early neutral evaluation...
Privacy is one of the challenges in Cooperative Distributed Systems (CDSs) in open environments where entities can desirably work collaboratively. One way of dealing with this challenge is to evaluate the negative risk of operations on shared information in a collaborative setting. In this paper, we propose a Hierarchical Fuzzy Inference System (HFIS) to assess risk of privacy violation during the...
Today's rising quantity of business collaborations increases the relevance of business contracting between companies. This leads at the same time to more complex and incomprehensible business contracts. We state a need for new approaches to handle this complexity. Business process modeling is a well established methodology of business process management (BPM) that can be used to handle complexity...
A contract is a legally binding agreement between real-world business entities whom we treat as providing services to one another. We focus on business rather than technical services. We think of a business contract as specifying the functional and nonfunctional behaviors of and interactions among the services. In current practice, contracts are produced as text documents. Thus the relevant service...
This paper emphasizes the role of contextual information and legal rules in publishing services, formulating contracts, discovering services, and their impact on ranking and adaptability. We use Configured Service concept, which is a package that bundles together service functionality, service contract, and service provision context. Service providers only publish Configured Services in a service...
"ROSCA" is the non-governmental financing mutual aid organization form with oriental tradition. As a folk custom it has a long history and practice in China. However, the current legal system doesn't establish the legal status of ROSCA in China, leading to in different regions and periods, although ROSCA as the financing way in rural areas and small and medium-sized enterprises becomes increasingly...
In the Internet economy, more and more transactions are carryoing out by means of conclusion of the electronic contracts which result in all kinds of special risks in electronic contracts, and which need to be controlled by the law. Preservation notarization builds security barrier for electronic contracts through its legal power and notarization technology, effectively reducing the legal risks of...
According to the existing laws and articles in China, and for the reason that teachers are not equal to normal laborers, the labor relation of the teachers in independent colleges is the relationship of employment. They should sign the contract of employment, instead of the contract of labor. So the labor relation of the teachers in independent colleges is not interpreted under Labor Law or Labor...
As is well known, scientific technology is growing rapidly in modern society, with an overall development in computer science, information technology, telecommunication technology and other cutting-edge techniques. Among the various subjects, electrical business is developing widely around the world currently. Its appearance has greatly changed the trading model of the community. And in multiple ways,...
This thesis is focused on player's actions and strategies under irrational institution and procedure which lead to the institutional and intended falsehood. So the behavioral falsehood and falsehood led by human being's limited rationality are excluded. Firstly, this thesis introduce the conception which related on the distortion of accounting information; secondly, we analyze the cause of accounting...
"Labor Contractor" as a non-enterprise legal person, it has experienced a long historical period. For development of the construction industry in China, "Labor Contractor" played its historical role, but also buried potential problems for the healthy development of the construction industry. In this paper, it proposed solutions to "contractors" in response by analyzing...
Risk is a concern for any project whereas infrastructure energy projects are considered more sensitive. The complication of such projects is deepened by great deal of required capital, lots of interfaces and diversified stakeholders. While capital is of the essence, its provision could be done through 'project finance' or 'traditional finance'. The two streams of lending are elaborated while the prominence...
R&D Alliance is an effective way for SMEs(small and medium enterprises) independent innovation. In order to realize cooperation across the organization and border-crossing, SMEs R&D Alliance must consider how to reduce cost, improve cooperative effect cooperation, and meanwhile guarantee the flexibility of SMEs. The essence of SMEs R&D Alliances cooperation and cooperation is closely linked...
With the SWOT analytical tool, the paper has analyzed the strengths and weaknesses in PFI mode and the opportunities and threats in the implementation of PFI financing in our urban infrastructures. The author puts forward a variety of countermeasures to promote PFI mode in our country and the achievement of this paper can be used for reference on how to introduce PFI to the construction of urban infrastructure.
This paper analyzed the basis of construction and management of government investment projects theoretic, and summarized from developed countries and regions in their construction and management of government investment projects mature approach. Furthermore, on the basic of China's government investment projects in construction management for the pilot, proposed three basic management modes that suitable...
Large-scale rural population flow which is accompanied by industrialization and urbanization in China is one of the inevitable social phenomenons. Since the founding of New China, rural land policy and rural population flow has a great relevance. Sound agricultural policies can promote the rural population flow reasonably and timely, whereas the opposite In the paper, based on the investigation of...
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