Bill Karakostas

The aim of this chapter is to showcase the potential of new, Cloud-based, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) platforms for transport logistics chain management. The...

This chapter discusses existing service customization projects in the health sector. It first defines e-health and compiles a list of personal health management applications that...

The aim of this chapter is to showcase the potential of new, Cloud-based, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) platforms for transport logistics chain management. The...

The Internet gives the consumer almost unlimited choice in products. At the same time, it causes a globalization of consumer habits and tastes. One important question that arises...

The paper identifies requirements for an Information and Communication (ICT) platform for the European freight transport sector- an e-Freight Platform. The e-Freight Platform can...

Composite applications integrate web services with other business applications and components to implement business processes. Model-driven approaches tackle the complexity of...

Virtual communities are groups of people with similar interests who meet online and together act as a learning environment, place for social support, or as bodies for influencing...

Virtual communities are groups of people with similar interests who meet online and together act as a learning environment, place for social support, or as bodies for influencing...

Composite applications integrate web services with other business applications and components to implement business processes. Model-driven approaches tackle the complexity of...

Strategic Information Systems Planning (SISP) has been a continuing top concern for IS/IT management, since the mid 1980’s. Responding to the increasing interest in SISP...

Virtual communities are groups of people with similar interests who meet online and together act as a learning environment, place for social support, or as bodies for influencing...

Among different approaches in business processes modelling procedure are those in virtual and dynamic organizational environments. In this paper, a conceptual framework for...

Strategic Information Systems Planning (SISP) has been a continuing top concern for IS/IT management, since the mid 1980’s. Responding to the increasing interest in SISP...

Despite pressures of economic slowdown and the e-commerce bubble burst, moving towards e-services is a compelling necessity for today's organizations. Companies that are...

Among different approaches in business processes modelling procedure are those in virtual and dynamic organizational environments. In this paper, a conceptual framework for...

Although it is difficult to measure the e-commerce economy precisely, its size is estimated to be relatively small (some $26 billion United States) at present, but it is expected...

Over the past few decades, organizations have witnessed dramatic changes in their environment. The globalisation of the economy with the emergence of Asia’s new economic...

Services are something we routinely experience in everyday life as consumers. Also, depending on our profession, we may deal with services as providers. School teachers...

Chapter II presented the main concepts underlying business services. Ultimately, as this book proposes, business services need to be decomposed into networks of executable Web...

Chapter III introduced standards for Web service specification, such as WSDL and SOAP. With the use of such standards, Web service designers can model the functionality of a...

This chapter argues that modeling is at the core of every service engineering method. Modeling not only allows us to understand business services but, what is equally important...

In Chapter II we discussed the fundamental properties and concepts of a service. Concepts like interface, contract, service provider and service consumer are universal (i.e....

Chapter II introduced universal service concepts (i.e. concepts that apply to any type of organization and service). In that chapter, we argued that services are so ubiquitous...

This chapter is concerned with concepts, technologies, and standards for deploying, executing, and managing services. In previous chapters, we have argued that the design of the...

This chapter introduces a service.engineering.platform (CLMS) that caters for all the phases of the service engineering life cycle. Although complete coverage of the service life...

Having discussed a method for service realization in Chapter VII, the service methodology that was first outlined in the Introduction of this book is now complete. We have...

This book has introduced a model-driven approach for identifying, designing, deploying, and managing business services in software. The concept of e-service is an extension of...

Although it is difficult to measure the e-commerce economy precisely, its size is estimated to be relatively small (some $26 billion United States) at present, but it is expected...

EAI (enterprise application integration) refers to the plans, methods, and tools aimed at modernizing, consolidating, and coordinating the computer applications in an enterprise....

This chapter is concerned with Application-to-Application (A2A) integration, in dynamic heterogeneous environments, where applications are not aware of each other in advance and...