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Standards for service discovery and delivery

IEEE Pervasive Computing, 2002
For the past five years, competing industries and standards developers have been hotly pursuing automatic configuration, now coined the broader term service discovery. Jini, Universal Plug and Play (UPnP), Salutation, and Service Location Protocol are among the front-runners in this new race. However, choosing service discovery as the topic of the hour
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Web services and web service security standards

Information Security Technical Report, 2005
This paper provides a short introduction to basic web services concepts and describes in greater detail the various specifications related to reliability, transactions and in particular security which are referred to as the Microsoft/IBM WS-^* family of specifications.
Christian Geuer-Pollmann, Joris Claessens   +1 more
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Workflow and web service standards

Business Process Management Journal, 2005
Purpose – Aims to discuss the development of workflow standards in the context of the internet.Design/methodology/approach – Outlines the history behind process interoperability standards such as Wf‐XML and BPEL4WS.Findings – Concludes that it will take a while for the dust to settle and the winners of the current standards battles to emerge ...
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National service framework standards

Nursing Standard, 2001
1. Rooting out discrimination: NHS services will be provided, regardless of age, on the basis of clinical need alone.
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Standards of Service

1986
Reference has already been made to the quality of the communications transmission when it reaches the distant terminal, but that is only one of the many criteria on which users will judge the quality of the service given by a telecommunications system and on which user satisfaction depends, whether a common user or a private dedicated system.
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Managed IT services: the role of IT standards

Information Management & Computer Security, 2008
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore the practical issues regarding standards and the management of IT services delivered by external or outsourced service providers called managed service providers (MSPs).Design/methodology/approachExtensive review of published materials from academic and industry sources is carried out to discuss the ...
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Impact of service standardization on service innovation

2017
Most studies about the impact of standardization on innovation focus on manufacturing sectors for which they often report positive impacts. However, in many countries services represent more than 50 per cent of gross domestic product, and while the number of standards for services is small, it is increasing.
de Vries, Henk, Wiegmann, Paul
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Standardization of network technologies and services

IEEE Communications Magazine, 1994
The relationships between standards organizations is expected to change as service boundaries rapidly become vague and media become unified. The collaboration between these organizations and the generation of common texts on recommendations/standards has already begun.
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Updates in service standards in hotels: how COVID-19 changed operations

International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, 2021
Janelle Chan, Yixing Gao, Sean Mcginley   +2 more
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Excellence, a service standard?

Proceedings of the 5th annual ACM SIGUCCS conference on User services - SIGUCCS '77, 1977
Being directly involved in computer user services over the past 21 years has led me to realize that although computer services groups persist in using the term 'service' through logos, organization titles, etc., etc., we sometimes fail to reach our goal.
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