Industry white papers are increasingly being used to explain the philosophy and operation of a product in marketplace or technology context. This explanation is used by senior managers for strategic planning in an organization. This research explores the effectiveness of white papers and...

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Data management for linked (or coupled) simulationmodels can be a challenging task when deploying togrid environments. In cases where the linked models conformto a standard interface for data input and output, generalpurposedata providers can be used to supply data to themodels from online...

The web services paradigm provides organizations with an environment to enhance B2B communications. The aim is to create modularized services supporting the business processes within their organization and also those external entities participating in these same business processes. Current web...

This exploratory research study contributes to answering two related research questions. First it identifies the key influences that seem to be driving and constraining the adoption of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and XML/Web Services and secondly it adduces some evidence to confirm that...

Web Services can be seen from two views ? one that it is a purelytechnological advance and the other that it is a capability that anorganisation can deploy to meet a business objective. Much has beensaid about the first view but not much has been said about the secondview. The underlying premise...

Although SOA development and service identification are widely discussed among academics and practitioners alike, little is known about how they are performed in practice. Thus, this paper investigates how SOA development and service identification work in real-life projects. An explorative...

In practice the ability to find the right Web service decides between a functionality being implemented anew and at least the possibility of executing it via a service. This report evaluates existing public portals for Web service discovery with respect to their characteristics and their...