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The impact of outsourcing information technology services on business operations
South African Journal of Information Management, 2021 Background: Organisations outsource Information Technology (IT) services in order to keep up with the IT evolution and to remain competitive. Although the IT operations department is responsible to manage service provider service quality, they are not in
Patricia Mtsweni +2 more
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MoHRiPA—An Architecture for Hybrid Resources Management of Private Cloud Environments
Sensors, 2021 The high demand for data processing in web applications has grown in recent years due to the increased computing infrastructure supply as a service in a cloud computing ecosystem.
Gabriel Tomiatti Andreazi +6 more
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A Two-Stage Service Migration Algorithm in Parked Vehicle Edge Computing for Internet of Things
Sensors, 2020 Parked vehicle edge computing (PVEC) utilizes both idle resources in parked vehicles (PVs) and roadside units (RSUs) as service providers (SPs) to improve the performance of vehicular internet of things (IoT).
Shuxin Ge +3 more
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Behavior and feedback based trust computation in cloud environment
Journal of King Saud University: Computer and Information Sciences, 2022 Cloud Computing has become a promising paradigm to deliver different computing resources and services over the Internet on demand. The cloud users have to rely on the third party service providers for accessing services.
Tabassum N. Mujawar, Lokesh B. Bhajantri
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Multi-Criteria Service Selection Agent for Federated Cloud
Journal of Communications Software and Systems, 2022 Federated cloud interconnects small and medium-sized cloud service providers for service enhancement to meet demand spikes. The service bartering technique in the federated cloud enables service providers to exchange their services.
S. Sudhakar +4 more
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Service provider difficulties in operationalising coercive control [PDF]
, 2019 We examined perspectives of social workers, police officers, and specialist domestic abuse practitioners about their perceived ability and organizational readiness to respond effectively to incidents of coercive and controlling behavior.
Brennan, Iain R. +3 more
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F1000Research, 2022 Background: Patients’ loyalty to visit and use the services provided by the primary health centers (PHCs) is an important requirement of a patient referral system in many countries.
Yossi Diantimala +3 more
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Multilevel Pricing Schemes in a Deregulated Wireless Network Market [PDF]
, 2014 Typically the cost of a product, a good or a service has many components. Those components come from different complex steps in the supply chain of the product from sourcing to distribution.
Altman, Eitan +2 more
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Ecosystem services provided by waterbirds
Biological Reviews, 2013 ABSTRACTEcosystem services are ecosystem processes that directly or indirectly benefit human well‐being. There has been much recent literature identifying different services and the communities and species that provide them. This is a vital first step towards management and maintenance of these services.
Green, Andy J., Elmberg, Johan
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IEEE Access, 2020 Charging of large-scale electric vehicles (EVs) will have a serious impact on the power grid. In the environment of power market, the orderly scheduling of EVs through agents is an effective way to solve this problem. Due to the uncertainty of EV travels,
Jianping Lin +4 more
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