Service-Oriented Computing promotes building applications by consuming and reusing Web Services. However, the selection of adequate Web Services given a client application is still a major challenge. The effort of assessing ...

Service-Oriented Computing promotes building applications by consuming reusable services. However, facing the selection of adequate services for a specific application still is a major challenge. Even with a reduced set ...

In the last years, Web Services have become the technological choice to materialize the Service-Oriented Computing paradigm. However, a broad use of Web Services requires efficient approaches to allow service consumption ...

Organizations use multiple governance modes (make, buy, ally) to produce their services. We consider plural sourcing as a portfolio of governance mode choices that a public service organization selects to provide its ...

Reinforced concrete (RC) structures are often subjected to deicing salts or in a marine environment; as such, a major problem in the durability of these structures is the corrosion of reinforcing steel. In this light, Fiber ...

A Process Manual. Contains the diagrammed flows of activities, sub processes and processes that, together, make up the Macroprocess 9 Human Capital Management.