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Service-Oriented Applications and Architectures (SOAs) have captured the interest of industry as a way to support business-to-business interaction, and the SOA market grew by $4.9 billion in 2005. SOAs and in particular service-oriented computing (SOC) represent a promising approach in the development of adaptive distributed systems. With SOC, applications can open themselves to services offered by third parties and accessed through standard, well-defined interfaces. The binding between the applications and the services can be, in this context, extremely loose--enabling the ad hoc creation of new services when the need arises. This book offers an overview of some current research in the field, presenting the results of eighteen research projects funded by the European Community's Information Society Technologies Program (IST). The projects, collaborations between industry and academia, have produced practical, achievable results that point the way to real-world applications and future research. The chapters address such issues as requirement analysis, design, governance, interoperability, and the dependability of systems made up of components owned by third parties. The results are presented in the context of two roadmaps for research, one developed by European industry involved in software development and the other by researchers working in the service area. The contributors report first on the "Infrastructure Layer," then (in the bulk of the book) on the "Service Integration Layer," the "Semantic Layer," and finally on the issues that cut across the different layers. The book concludes by looking at ongoing research on both roadmaps.

Web services --- Internetworking (Telecommunication) --- Application program interfaces (Computer software) --- Business enterprises --- Research --- Computer networks. --- APIs (Computer software) --- Interfaces, Application program (Computer software) --- Inter-networking (Telecommunication) --- Interoperability in computer networks --- Application software --- Computer networks --- Cloud computing --- E-books --- COMPUTER SCIENCE/General --- ENGINEERING/Systems Science & Engineering

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"Joseph J. Corn maps two centuries of consumer frustration and struggle with personal technologies. ... Having extensively researched owner's manuals, computer user-group newsletters, and how-to literature, Corn brings a fresh, consumer-oriented approach to the history of technology."--Dust jacket.

Consumer satisfaction. --- Human-computer interaction. --- Human-machine systems --- Technological innovations --- Human operators (Systems engineering) --- Human subsystems (Systems engineering) --- Man-machine control systems --- Man-machine systems --- Operator-machine systems --- Engineering systems --- Human engineering --- Computer-human interaction --- Human factors in computing systems --- Interaction, Human-computer --- User-centered system design --- User interfaces (Computer systems) --- Customer satisfaction --- Satisfaction --- Brand loyalty --- Customer loyalty --- Social aspects. --- Consumer satisfaction --- Human-computer interaction --- Social aspects --- E-books

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Discusses the basic principles of enterprise architecture and enterprise modeling. This title introduces the field and presents the General Enterprise Modeling Architecture. It includes a set of models and methods and describes different aspects of the system and covers its life cycle. It is suitable for researchers.

Management information systems. --- Information technology --- Management. --- Management information systems --- Management --- E-books --- Business enterprises --- Systems engineering --- Systems integration --- System analysis --- Management Theory --- Business & Economics --- IT (Information technology) --- Technology --- Telematics --- Information superhighway --- Knowledge management --- Computer-based information systems --- EIS (Information systems) --- Executive information systems --- MIS (Information systems) --- Sociotechnical systems --- Information resources management --- Network analysis --- Network science --- Network theory --- Systems analysis --- System theory --- Mathematical optimization --- Integration, Systems --- System integration --- Engineering systems --- System engineering --- Engineering --- Industrial engineering --- Business organizations --- Businesses --- Companies --- Enterprises --- Firms --- Organizations, Business --- Business --- Computer networks --- Computer simulation --- Communication systems --- Design and construction

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Human error is cited over and over as a cause of incidents and accidents. The result is a widespread perception of a ""human error problem"", and solutions are thought to lie in changing the people or their role in the system. For example, we should reduce the human role with more automation, or regiment human behavior by stricter monitoring, rules or procedures. But in practice, things have proved not to be this simple. The label ""human error"" is prejudicial and hides much more than it reveals about how a system functions or malfunctions. This book takes you behind the human error label. Di

Industrial safety. --- Human-machine systems. --- Human-computer interaction. --- Cognition. --- Errors. --- Computer-human interaction --- Human factors in computing systems --- Interaction, Human-computer --- Human operators (Systems engineering) --- Human subsystems (Systems engineering) --- Man-machine control systems --- Man-machine systems --- Operator-machine systems --- Industrial accidents --- Industries --- Job safety --- Occupational hazards, Prevention of --- Occupational health and safety --- Occupational safety and health --- Prevention of industrial accidents --- Prevention of occupational hazards --- Safety, Industrial --- Safety engineering --- Safety measures --- Safety of workers --- Mistakes --- Prevention --- Psychology --- Human engineering --- User-centered system design --- User interfaces (Computer systems) --- Engineering systems --- Accidents --- System safety --- Fallibility --- Industrial safety --- Human-machine systems --- Human-computer interaction --- Cognition --- Errors --- E-books --- Cognitive psychology --- Transport. Traffic --- Fallibility. --- Human engineering. --- Ergonomics --- Human factors in engineering design --- Bioengineering --- Environmental engineering --- Industrial engineering --- Human comfort --- Human-robot interaction --- Philosophical anthropology

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This book identifies a comprehensive set of actions for enhancing health care across the Nation through greater use of systems-engineering principles. Systems engineering, widely used in manufacturing and aviation, is an interdisciplinary approach to analyze, design, manage, and measure a complex system in order to improve its efficiency, reliability, productivity, quality, and safety. It has often produced dramatically positive results in the small number of health-care organizations that have incorporated it into their processes. The book proposes a strategy that involves reforming payment s

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