Trust and reputation systems represent a significant trend in decision support for Internet mediated service provision. The basic idea is to collect information about potential service providers in order to select the most reliable and trustworthy provider of services and information and to avoid

-aptations: sociocultural/organizational, structural/ service delivery, and clinical. · Most adaptations were not directly related to the specific evidence-based practice and would be relevant in many service-provision settings.

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. It is within this new arena of computing that we describe Individual Service Provisioning, a design and implementation that enables end users to create and provision their own services. Individual Service Provisioning consists of three components: a personal service environment, in which users can access

With the emergence of modularized componentbased electronic services, such as Web Services and semantically tagged services, Individual Service Provisioning, wherein any user can be a service provider, can become a reality. We argue that there are three basic requirements for such an architecture

With the emergence of modularized component-based electronic services, such as Web Services and semantically tagged services, Individual Service Provisioning, wherein any user can be a service provider, can become a reality. We argue that there are three basic requirements for such an architecture

of an optimisation solution often requires an investment in technology, time, and staff, typically available only in large organisations. Recently there is a growing requirement for the use of optimisation by a wide range of companies leading us to Optimisation Service Provision (OSP) which: Allows the use

Provisioning resources for network services introduces the conflicting requirement for both deterministic traffic models to isolate and police users, and statistical multiplexing to efficiently utilize and share network resources. We address this issue by introducing two complimentary schemes

on the service registration and discovery mechanisms. This paper addresses the issue of facilitating such service provision capabilities in the presence of (logical and physical) mobility exhibited by applications executing over ad hoc networks. The solution being discussed entails a new kind of service model