Different Types Of Services Research Articles

Study of Collection Development and Services in Women's College Libraries Affiliated to Karnataka State Women's University, Vijayapur

This study examines the usage of collection development and services in Women's College Libraries affiliated to Karnataka State Women's University, Vij ayapuruse, Karnataka, India. Here 85 questionnaires were distributed to the suitably selected librarians from the women's college libraries. Out of these, 58 (68.24%) questionnaires were returned and used for this study. The present study demonstrates and elaborates the various aspects of collection development and its services by women colleges libraries, statement showing the document collections, i.e., books, journals and journals subscription, non-book materials, opinion considered by the college while purchase of books, gifted books to the libraries, library automation software, and its services, and library and information networks. The article also highlights user's awareness about different types of services. Findings and suggestions of the study are given at the end of the article.

Service oriented architecture assessment based on software components

Article history: Received June 25, 2015 Received in revised format: June 28, 2015 Accepted July 27, 2015 Available online July 29 2015 Enterprise architecture, with detailed descriptions of the functions of information technology in the organization, tries to reduce the complexity of technology applications resulting in tools with greater efficiency in achieving the objectives of the organization. Enterprise architecture consists of a set of models describing this technology in different components performance as well as various aspects of the applications in any organization. Therefore, information technology development and maintenance management can perform well within organizations. This study aims to suggest a method to identify different types of services in service-oriented architecture analysis step that applies some previous approaches in an integrated form and, based on the principles of software engineering, to provide a simpler and more transparent approach through the expression of analysis details. Advantages and disadvantages of proposals should be evaluated before the implementation and costs allocation. Evaluation methods can better identify strengths and weaknesses of the current situation apart from selecting appropriate model out of several suggestions, and clarify this technology development solution for organizations in the future. We will be able to simulate data and processes flow within the organization by converting the output of the model to colored Petri nets and evaluate and test it by examining various inputs to enterprise architecture before implemented in terms of reliability and response time. A model of application has been studied for the proposed model and the results can describe and design architecture for data. Growing Science Ltd. All rights reserved. 6 © 201

How Do Industry Evolution and Industry Conditions Prompt Product Firms to Offer Services?

Product firms are increasingly offering different types of services. This strategy, referred to as servitization, is seen as a response to a firm’s product industry evolution and the challenging in...

Who Do Batswana Men Prefer: Male or Female Health Providers?

Sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services are rarely designed specifically to meet men's needs. There is a general consensus among clinicians that males need access to SRH services. Studies have reported that men are often hesitant to go to health facilities because they feel uncomfortable being served by female providers. The study sought to determine whether men who participate in SRH services have specific preference for the gender of health workers for consultation on different types of services. A mixed-method design was employed. A combination of stratified proportional sampling of facilities and criterion purposive sampling of participants were used. Questionnaires were used to collect data from 390 participants, which were complemented with 10 in-depth interviews. Chi-square analysis with post hoc comparisons were used to determine whether there were significant differences in gender preference for specific services. Based on the data, Batswana males did not have any gender preference of the health provider for consultation on SRH services. The gender of the provider is of minor importance compared with other characteristics such as competence and confidentiality. However, the gender of the provider seems to be more important to younger men for delivery, sexually transmitted infections, voluntary counselling, and testing services. Further research is needed because the study was conducted in the city and the participants' characteristics may be unique to an urban setting. Preferences for providers among demographic groups can be useful in informing resource prioritization and help direct program efforts to reach different subgroups of males.

The Influence of Different Level of Service Characteristics and Personal Involvement towards Consumer Relational Response Behaviors

The purpose of this study is to empirically test the relationship between consumer personal involvement and perceived relational benefit in different industries that poses different level of customer contact. Examination on the influence of perceived relational benefit towards consumer relational response behavior was also conducted. The study used descriptive causal research design. Based on a sample of 225 customers of three different types of services, using MANOVA and multiple regression analysis, the study found that confidence is the most important benefit that consumers consider in building long term relationship with the service provider. Consumers of high contact services perceived social benefit as the second most important, whereas consumers of moderate contact and low contact services perceived special treatment benefits as the second most important in building long term relationship with the service provider. The study also found that confidence benefit is the predictor of consumer relational response behaviors in high contact, moderate contact and low contact services. Level of consumers’ involvement with the service differentiates consumers’ perceived relational benefits in high contact and moderate contact services, whereas consumers perceive the same relational benefit in low contact services regardless the level of consumers’ involvement with the service.

An Approach for Effort Estimation of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Projects

In the last few decades SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) has become the new trend in the IT industry. Many organizations tend to migrate to SOA in order to cope with the rapidly changing business. Effort estimation of SOA projects has become a real challenge to project managers due to the limited literatures addressing this issue. The traditional effort estimation techniques do not fit SOA projects entirely, as SOA has unique characteristics were not addressed by the traditional cost estimation approaches. These unique SOA characteristics include: loose coupling, reusability, composability and discoverability. On the other hand, cost estimation approaches that were proposed to estimate SOA projects, are still immature and most of them are impractical. They cannot be used in real life projects, as they are more guidelines than actual practical cost estimation approaches. This paper proposes an effort estimation approach for SOA projects that has been applied to different variety of services. It considers SOA characteristics and the various cost factors for different types of services including available, migrated, new and composed services. This proposed approach provides effort estimation technique for each type of service. The proposed approach also gives effort distribution among project phases for easily resources allocation. This framework has been applied to real life projects in the IT industry as the SOA project is divided into its component services and each service is estimated solely based on its type. The services' efforts are then aggregated to calculate the project’s overall effort. The estimated effort relative error in the case studies ranges from 3.66 % and 19.14%.

Multimedia quality transmission evaluation over wireless networks: a survey

In recent years, usage of multimedia applications has increased dramatically, especially after the evolution of 3G and 4G technologies. Moreover, the development of new user devices, such as laptops, Smartphone, etc. increased very steeply and rapidly, to support different types of services and different means of communication satisfying user's needs. Here, the challenge is how to make those services available to users with a high quality; we speak here about quality of service (QoS) and quality of experience. In this survey, we examine different characteristics of wireless networks to determine the enhancements introduced by each technology. Particularly, we focus on the benefits and limitations of three main technologies which are WiMAX, UMTS and LTE, and the role of each one in increasing QoS satisfaction for multimedia application. A comparison is also done between researches already published in Multimedia quality evaluation over wireless networks topic, taking into account some considerations, such QoS parameters, used simulator, assessed applications, etc. All those help us to extract the strengths and limitations of those researches.

Necessity of Telemedicine.

Dear Editor, Telemedicine has been defined as the use of telecommunication technologies like e-mail, wireless tools, and other applications to diagnose and treat a patient’s clinical health status. Different types of services can be provided by telemedicine, such as home telehealth and referral to medical centers. There have been several examples of large-scale disasters over the last few decades with various causes. One of the first applications of telemedicine in a disaster situation was done 18 years ago following an earthquake in Armenia (1). Moreover, several studies support the cost-effectiveness, clinical feasibility, and diagnostic accuracy of telemedicine in the acute phase response to disasters (2). In 2003, although a large part of the city was destroyed the Bam earthquake, emergency medical interventions did not respond timely or adequately. Hence, we need a generalized and appropriate management plan to prepare in untimely events. Telemedicine can provide coordination between various governmental and international agencies as well as NGOs. However, the effectiveness of telemedicine depends on the data transfer rate and the interaction between the individuals involved (3). Response to a disaster situation has three phases; namely the acute phase response (immediate post-disaster period), subacute disaster response (days to weeks following the disaste), and disaster recovery (months to years) phase (4). In Iran, we need an alternative control and management plan to treat endangered people immediately. Effective information management and communication is absolutely necessary to generate coordinated actions and prevent or treat serious health problems resulting from -onset disasters acutely. Telemedicine, in particular, has been shown to be effective in improving management of emergencies in pre-hospital care. While telemedicine can be utilized in the hospital setting, its implementation is similar to traditional telemedicine systems. We have identified pre-hospital telemedicine as a weak area that holds great promise for medical care treatment. The new family medicine plan of the ministry of health for improved performance of such plans aim to address and implement the concepts and capabilities of telemedicine nationally (5). Telemedicine can be a powerful tool when a reduction in patient transports is combined with improved care of those transported. The aim of this new plan is easy access to public health care and enhancing the quality of healthcare services rendered. In a country like Iran, with its under-developed transportation network, dispersion of the population in various remote areas (which are difficult to access), and the problem of population aging which make the uniform medical health service delivery difficult, telemedicine can provide more expedient and more accurate diagnosis of patients, in provide tentative decisions regarding their treatment, reduce the loss of golden time and cost reduction. Telemedicine promises unique opportunities for both patients and clinicians when implemented in direct response phase following crises or disasters.

Time banks, co-production and foresight: intertwined towards an alternative future

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to analyse the emergence, operation and features of the time banks that were created during the recent financial crisis in Greece as grass-roots initiatives of different communities, and to examine their relation to the concept of “co-production” and possible relevance to foresight. Time banks are particularly interesting for the future of services: they address all sorts of services while the time-bank “value” of these different types of services does not necessarily reflect their actual value in the free market; impacts may spread from the mere coverage of people’s needs, to increased social capital and community empowerment; and some scholars consider them as flexible forms of co-production, or even as enablers of wider social change. The purpose of the paper is to examine the emergence, and features of the time banks created during the recent financial crisis in Greece as grass-roots initiatives.Design/methodology/approach– Primary information and data were gathered through eight extensive face-to-face interviews with key members of the four time banks based on a semi-structured questionnaire. The methodology also included desk research and review of the information included in time banks’ websites. The selection of these four time banks was based on the fact that they are the most active ones in Athens, which is the capital of the country gathering around 40 per cent of the Greek population and presenting the severest consequences of the financial crises in terms of unemployment, poverty, shutdown of businesses, share of people with no insurance, etc.Findings– Based on a specific analytical framework summarising the available literature, the Greek time banks are compared with each other but also in relation to the findings in the literature, where some interesting differences emerge. The paper also explores the role that foresight can plan in the development of alternative initiatives like time banks. The interesting conclusion is that foresight can help time banks as much as time banks can help foresight in upgrading its processes to deal with challenges of the twenty-first century.Research limitations/implications– The research focuses on the four most active time banks in Athens. While this selection is justified, future research would be good to include all the time banks in Greece.Social implications– The paper explores how time banks in Greece emerged as well as how they can further develop. This is of direct relevance to society as time banks are by default a community initiative.Originality/value– Time banks in Greece have not been previously studied. Second, time banks in general were never linked to approaches like foresight. This becomes increasingly important in examining possible approaches toward more sustainable and resilient societies.

Optimal Energy Efficient Scheduling based on VM Energy Consumption in Cloud

Cloud computing has emerged as a flexible and powerful computing platform which offers different types of services to users. However, the energy consumption and carbon emission in cloud data centre have massive impact on global environment triggering intense research in this area. Growth in demand for cloud based services is resulting in increasing of utilization of cloud resources and consequent increase in the energy consumption. While there is a need to maximize utilization of the resources, the energy consumption needs to be reduced. Therefore we need to determine the operational optimal point which reduces the energy consumption for a desired value of resource utilization. In this paper, we propose a technique to find such an optimal operational point in Cloud computing environment. The technique is based on measuring the energy consumption of VMs created for a task, classifying the VMs based on their energy consumption and resource utilization, and then performing scheduling of VMs. The time efficiency of this algorithm is . The effectiveness of the proposed technique has been verified by simulating on CloudSim. Experimental results confirm that the technique proposed here can significantly reduce energy consumption for the desired value of resource utilization.

Safe Reconfiguring Data Plane via Supervision over Resource and Flow States

In the Software-defined networking (SDN), when multiple control domains are used in control services, the transient state problem can occur causing the service flow interruption when border switches are updated asynchronously. We analyze the uniqueness of this problem for SDN, and propose a light-weight protocol for safe reconfiguration of the border switches in order to improve the availability of the services running in SDN. Our solution is designed as a generic supervision layer added in the control plane to support different types of services. To demonstrate the benefits, we implement a prototype of Informationcentric networks (ICN) with the protocol, and conduct experiments using PlanetLab. The results show the ICN service can continuously serve high volume requests for contents despite the congestions built by the heavy background traffic. The performance gains in terms of the mean and standard deviation of the content retrieve delay are 40.5% and 21.56%.

Development of an open source agricultural mobile data collector system

The information is important in every decision area. The Big Data philosophy lead to collect every possible data. Nowadays these applications are more and more successful in the following agricultural areas: different parts of food industry, extension services, precision agriculture. While studying the use of these new ICT technologies can be concluded that different types of services offer different possibilities. Firstly we compared the possible mainboards and sensors. General information about the existing mobile main boards. We compared the Atmel AVR, the Raspberry PI and the LEGO Mindstorms NXT. We choosed the Arduino system board. We described the main system architecture and connection possibilites. We found the temperature sensor widely useable. The software was also briefly mentioned. We can say there are several advantages of the Arduino. The whole system can be upgradeable, and there are several Arduino based mainboards and sensors too. Nowadays the block programming support are increasing (etc. MIT Appinventor), but there are disadvantages too. The system has several limitation: the number of the connected sensor, the connection type, the system energy supply, the data loss, the creation of user friendly interface and the system failure tolerability.

Research on cloud computing solutions

Cloud computing can be defined as a new style of computing in which dynamically scala-ble and often virtualized resources are provided as a services over the Internet. Advantages of the cloud computing technology include cost savings, high availability, and easy scalability. Voas and Zhang adapted six phases of computing paradigms, from dummy termi-nals/mainframes, to PCs, networking computing, to grid and cloud computing. There are four types of cloud computing: public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud and community. The most common and well-known deployment model is Public Cloud. A Private Cloud is suited for sensitive data, where the customer is dependent on a certain degree of security. According to the different types of services offered, cloud computing can be considered to consist of three layers (services models): IaaS (infrastructure as a service), PaaS (platform as a service), SaaS (software as a service). Main cloud computing solutions: web applications, data hosting, virtualization, database clusters and terminal services. The advantage of cloud com-puting is the ability to virtualize and share resources among different applications with the objective for better server utilization and without a clustering solution, a service may fail at the moment the server crashes. DOI: 10.15181/csat.v2i2.914

An Enhanced Service Ring Protocol for Service Discovery in MANET

Semantic service trading is a powerful mechanism to allow devices to share the resources and services in highly dynamic environment. Mobile devices are able to spontaneously form highly dynamic Ad-hoc networks allowing the communication even when no infrastructure exists. These types of networks enable the participating devices to share resources and services and thus overcome the often severe limitations of the individual device capabilities. The devices cooperate with each other by providing different types of services. These services must be discovered before they can be used. Locating a network service or a device on demand is a challenging task for enabling mobile and pervasive computing. There exists a variety of network protocols and architectures that enable an application to discover a network service with little manual configuration. In this paper our studies is focused on Service Rings Protocol and suggests caching to improve its performance. The modification increases the performance and efficiency of Service Ring protocol for service discovery in MANET by reducing the flooding and exchange of service discovery messages. General Terms Service Discovery , Service Ring , Caching, MANET et al.

Energy Efficient Dynamic Load Balancing Algorithm for Cloud Environment

Cloud computing provides information technology resources and services on demand using the internet. It different types of services like IAAS (infrastructure as a service), PAAS (platform as a service) and SAAS(software as a service). Scenario of cloud computing refers to the two entities mainly cloud service provider and cloud service user. Cloud service provider provides the cloud resources and services to the cloud service user. Cloud service provider must have to use its resources efficiently to gain profit, but challenging task for them is maximum optimization of cloud resources. This paper describes approach which deals with saving of energy by optimally utilizing hosts and by minimizing active host using migration techniques. General Terms Algorithm for energy efficient dynamic load balancing in cloud environment.

A Stereoscopic 3-D Broadcasting System Using Fixed and Mobile Hybrid Delivery and the Quality Assessment of the Mixed Resolution Stereoscopic Video

In this paper, we demonstrate the structure and characteristics of the bandwidth-efficient stereoscopic 3-D broadcasting system entitled service compatible 3-D-TV using main and mobile hybrid delivery (SC-MMH), which enables the broadcasters to provide three different types of services (2-D fixed, mobile, and 3-D) by transmitting only the two legacy broadcast streams (2-D fixed and mobile). By combining the two existing broadcast networks, the proposed system provides high quality 3-D services, fully guarantees backward-compatibility with the legacy fixed/mobile 2-D receivers, and maximizes the channel efficiency. One major feature of the proposed system is bit-rate saving based on the video resolution asymmetry between the left and right eye views, also referred to as “mixed-resolution.” Although it is well-known wisdom that the mixed-resolution stereoscopic videos are perceived close to the higher resolution based on the binocular rivalry suppression theory, the perceived quality also depends on the factors such as scale ratio, viewing distance, bit-rate distribution, and types of codecs. Therefore, we conducted the objective and subjective tests to measure the service quality of the proposed system and find the optimum bit-rate distribution points, and with the results, we demonstrate that SC-MMH can provide the satisfactory quality when the proper level of bit-rate is allocated to the mobile service.

Service-oriented network performance evaluation framework based on LA-FAHP

Since the different characteristics of various network services determine that their requirements for network are also disparate, the performance of one network varies according to the services running on it. However, most of previous network performance evaluation (NPE) researches conduct evaluations based on the network parameters, but without considering from the perspective of specific service running on the network. In view of this issue, a novel service-oriented NPE framework is proposed. First, the characteristics discrepancy among different types of services are investigated. Next, in order to conduct comprehensive evaluation of multiple services, an enhanced low-complexity adaptive (LA)-fuzzy analytical hierarchy process (FAHP) is introduced; meanwhile by applying the experts-construct-directly (ECD) algorithm proposed later, the consistency check required in previous studies can be omitted, thereby significantly reducing the computation complexity and assessment workload for experts. Then, in accordance with the features of each service, corrections are made to their respective membership functions, thus making the proposed LA-FAHP adaptive to various service evaluation scenarios. The subsequent comparison with other NPE methods well proves the effectiveness and high sensitivity of proposed framework, and the analysis verifies the low computation complexity of the proposed algorithms as well.

The demographic impact on the demand for emergency medical services in the urban and rural regions of Bavaria, 2012-2032.

AimIn most regions of the world, the proportion of older people in the population has increased during the last decades. As this entails major consequences for the healthcare sector, this study isolates and quantifies the impact of an aging population on the demand for emergency medical services in different types of regions in Bavaria between 2012 and 2032.MethodsDispatch data of the emergency medical services were combined with population data and forecasts. Age-specific rates of emergency ambulance dispatches were calculated and used for a 20-year-projection for all 71 rural and 25 urban districts of Bavaria. Tests for differences between these two types of regions were applied.ResultsPer capita rates of emergency ambulance dispatches in urban regions tend to be higher and there is an urban–rural distinction in the rates of specific age groups. The projection predicted an overall increase in emergency ambulance dispatches by 21 % in Bavaria within 20 years, solely due to demographic effects. At the regional level, this demographic impact ranged from about −3 % to +41 %. There is a clear urban–rural distinction and the 28 regions with the strongest increase are all rural regions.ConclusionThe substantial demographic impact in combination with strong urban–rural variations should be accounted for in regional long-term planning as well as age-group specific innovation in the emergency medical services. As demography is not the only significant demand factor, the identification and quantification of other factors remains a challenge for further research.

IMPROVING RESOURCE UTILIZATION IN INFRASTRUCTURAL CLOUD

In this paper, an introspective overview is made on the design aspects of (Software as Service) Cloud system by improving infrastructure utilization integrating different lease and scheduling techniques for user and resources to implement On-demand allocation of resources to the user. The primary aim of Cloud Computing is to provide mobility development of web-based application by means of early accessible tools and interfaces by using and manipulating infrastructure. Cloud-based services integrate global scattered resource, which offer its users different types of services without the difficulties and complications. In this paper main focus is on resource allocation to user, both Premium and Non-Premium with more priority to Premium user managing their effective utilization and providing security from data alteration and modification. In this paper a small protocol of cloud application is implemented adding security to it making the stored user data and information secure via the fraud detection system. Its main purpose is to improve utilization of infrastructure Cloud by providing On-demand availability of the resources to the users by reducing the expenses. Application are network based so that the business user free to use the services from anywhere that they choose using virtually any type of electronic device. Each application is pay-per-usage basis, allowing the business owner to predict their budget for the usage of number of application according to business need. This system offers a less expensive platform and infrastructure solution to improve the efficiency and elasticity of IT operations.

Understanding the Benefit of Purchasing Ancillary Air Travel Services Via Mobile Phones

ABSTRACTRecently, United States (US) airlines engaged in a systematic offering of different types of services, called ancillary services, which are designed to improve the experiences of travelers while increasing airlines’ revenues. Given their strong personalized character and the unique characteristics of mobile commerce, ancillary services are believed to be well suited for mobile commerce in air travel. Drawing upon several theoretical streams, this study developed and validated empirically a structural model founded on constructs contributing to the formation of perceptions of value (monetary and information disclosure) and of the benefit of using mobile phones for purchasing air travel ancillary services. The model explained approximately 65% of the variability in perceived benefit of using mobile phones for purchasing ancillary services in air travel. It revealed that perceived monetary value is the strongest predictor of perceived benefit of using mobile phones to purchase air travel ancillary services.