Business Grid Services

Grid services have come to represent the synthesis of web services and grid computing paradigms. Web services provide the means to modularize software, enabling loosely coupled and novel synthesis. Grid computing removes the binding between functional software components and specific hosting hardware, enabling software to be deployed dynamically over a network (e.g. intra-, extra- or inter-net). Applying the constructs of grid computing to the service orientation of enterprise software will allow business service networks to utilize more specialized services. An upper service ontology that enables business grid services to be described and then related to the grid hosting platform is presented. Explicit knowledge is required for enterprise software, hosting servers and the domain that can then be utilized by both SLA and reservation systems. The ontology presented is derived from and validated using a collection of web services taken from leading investment banks

A New Taxonomy for Symbiotic EM Sensors

It is clear that the EM spectrum is now rapidly reaching saturation, especially for frequencies below 10~GHz. Governments, who influence the regulatory authorities around the world, have resorted to auctioning the use of spectrum, in a sense to gauge the importance of a particular user. Billions of USD are being paid for modest bandwidths. The earth observation, astronomy and similar science driven communities cannot compete financially with such a pressure system, so this is where governments have to step in and assess /regulate the situation. It has been a pleasure to see a situation where the communications and broadcast communities have come together to formulate sharing of an important part of the spectrum (roughly, 50 MHz to 800 MHz) in an IEEE standard, IEEE802.22. This standard (known as the "TV White Space Network" (built on lower level standards) shows a way that fixed and mobile users can collaborate in geographically widespread regions, using cognitive radio and geographic databases of users. This White Space (WS) standard is well described in the literature and is not the major topic of this short paper. We wish to extend the idea of the WS concept to include the idea of EM sensors (such as Radar) adopting this approach to spectrum sharing, providing a quantum leap in access to spectrum. We postulate that networks of sensors, using the tools developed by the WS community, can replace and enhance our present set of EM sensors. We first define what Networks of Sensors entail (with some history), and then go on to define, based on a Taxonomy of Symbiosis defined by de Bary\cite{symb}, how these sensors and other users (especially communications) can co-exist. This new taxonomy is important for understanding, and should replace somewhat outdated terminologies from the radar world.Comment: 4 pages, 1 Figur

Large Scale Document Management System: Creating Effective Public Sector Knowledge Management System

The digital age has redefined the production process and utilisation of documents globally. In the information age, the process of input, delivery, storage, receipt, and categorization of data is critical. The public sector has to rely more and more on automated, reliable solutions in order to keep their information safe and readily accessible for effective governance. A document management system is a computer system used to track and store electronic documents and/or images of paper documents. The term has some overlap with the concepts of content management systems often viewed as a component of enterprise content management systems and related to digital asset management, document imaging, workflow systems and records management systems. This paper examines an ongoing document management implementation case study in a public sector of digital assets of over twelve million pages, scalable to billions of pages, highlighting the taxonomy, content and knowledge management creation using an enterprise content management system and discusses the role in national development and growt

An Ontology for Product-Service Systems

Industries are transforming their business strategy from a product-centric to a more service-centric nature by bundling products and services into integrated solutions to enhance the relationship between their customers. Since Product- Service Systems design research is currently at a rudimentary stage, the development of a robust ontology for this area would be helpful. The advantages of a standardized ontology are that it could help researchers and practitioners to communicate their views without ambiguity and thus encourage the conception and implementation of useful methods and tools. In this paper, an initial structure of a PSS ontology from the design perspective is proposed and evaluated

Co-creation and user innovation: The role of online 3D printing platforms

The aim of this article is to investigate the changes brought about by online 3D printing platforms in co-creation and user innovation. As doing so requires a thorough understanding of the level of user involvement in productive processes and a clear view of the nature of co-creative processes, this article provides a ‘prosumption’ framework and a typology of co-creation activities. Then, based on case studies of 22 online 3D printing platforms, a service-based taxonomy of these platforms is constructed. The taxonomy and typology are then matched to investigate the role played by online 3D platforms in regard to the various types of co-creation activities and, consequently, how this impacts user innovation

The Butterfly Effect: Creative Sustainable Design Solutions through Systems thinking

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