scholarly journals Kepler - An OAI Data/Service Provider for the Individual

2001 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kurt Maly ◽  
Mohammad Zubair ◽  
Xiaoming Liu
Keyword(s):  
Service Provider ◽  
Data Service ◽  
The Individual

Bucking the Trend: A Look at Zyme Solutions' Non-linear Business Model for IT Services from India

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (01) ◽  
pp. 37-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.V.R. Seshadri
Keyword(s):  
Business Model ◽  
Service Provider ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Linear Growth ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Data Service ◽  
It Services ◽  
Software Companies ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
Vertical Market

The case describes XGen Technologies (name disguised), an India-based IT Enabled Services (ITES) company having to grapple with the issues of linear growth. The company's headcount had touched a whopping 40,000 and managing such a large setup was becoming a severe challenge, putting immense pressure on Partha Sen, the CEO, to adopt an innovative business model to sustain historical growth rates of revenue and profitability. This situation was similar to what most Indian ITES companies faced: they had been clocking impressive growth, yet there were concerns about the future. The case then describes some of the strategies that software companies have been adopting in order to achieve greater non-linearity in their business. In particular, the case concentrates on Zyme Solutions, Inc., a fully outsourced hosted data service provider to the high-tech vertical market, which has built as a non-linear business from the ground up, without the legacy of the linear business models to contend with. Students are put in the place of Partha Sen, having to decide on an approach that established companies like XGen could adopt to transit to a non-linear model.

scholarly journals SCoPE: Service Composition and Personalization Environment

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 2297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thais A. Baldissera ◽  
Luis M. Camarinha-Matos
Keyword(s):  
Service Provider ◽  
Service Composition ◽  
Elderly Care ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Assessment Method ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Integration Of Services ◽  
Professional Assistance ◽  
The Individual

Current demographic trends suggest that people are living longer, while the ageing process entails many necessities calling for care services tailored to the individual senior’s needs and life style. Personalized provision of care services usually involves a number of stakeholders, including relatives, friends, caregivers, professional assistance organizations, enterprises, and other support entities. Traditional Information and Communication Technology (ICT) based care and assistance services for the elderly have been mainly focused on the development of isolated and generic services, considering a single service provider, and excessively featuring a techno-centric approach. In contrast, advances on collaborative networks for elderly care suggest the integration of services from multiple providers, encouraging collaboration as a way to provide better personalized services. This approach requires a support system to manage the personalization process and allow ranking the {service, provider} pairs. In accordance with these requirements, an Elderly Care Ecosystem (ECE) framework and a Service Composition and Personalization Environment (SCoPE) are proposed. ECE provides the context for the personalization method which is based on the match between a taxonomy of care needs and the {service, provider} pairs, and the calculation of a service adherence index to identify suitable services and corresponding providers. To demonstrate the feasibility and applicability of SCoPE, a number of methods and algorithms are presented. Furthermore, an illustrative scenario is introduced in which {service, provider} pairs are ranked based on multidimensional assessment method and composition strategies are based on customer’s profile and requirements.

Search Engine Marketing

2017 ◽  
pp. 843-858
Author(s):  
Azizul Hassan ◽  
Sumesh S. Dadwal
Keyword(s):  
Human Computer Interaction ◽  
Search Engine ◽  
Service Provider ◽  
Marketing Channels ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Search Engine Marketing ◽  
Individual User ◽  
Tourism Marketing ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
The Individual

The most common feature of Search Engine Marketing (SEM) is the pay-per-click concept that outlines the conceptual understanding of the human-computer interaction (HCI) in marketing. In this type of marketing, the three active actors act simultaneously: the service provider, the search engine as the platform and the individual user base. On the assumption that technology will dominate future marketing channels, this study will explore the conceptualisations of SEM, in relation to HCI in tourism marketing. This paper asserts that strategically, a congenial and accepted level of interaction is much required between the service provider and consumers. Also, this is outlined that the customization of a tourism industry led application and adoption of SEM is possible on ground of the Unified theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) where, factors like age, gender, experience and voluntariness of use are attached with performance expectancy (Venkatesh et al., 2003).

scholarly journals Contracting Out of the Provision of Welfare Services to Private Actors and Liability Issues

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vibe Ulfbeck ◽  
Marta Andrecka
Keyword(s):  
Service Provider ◽  
Tort Law ◽  
Contracting Out ◽  
Independent Contractors ◽  
The Public ◽  
Vicarious Liability ◽  
Welfare Services ◽  
Private Service ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Public Entity

AbstractThe article discusses liability issues related to the contracting out of welfare services. It focuses on the possible liability of the private actor and of the public entity towards the individual (the citizen) for non-performance or mal-performance of the welfare service. It is argued that since there is no contract between the individual and the private service provider there may be several obstacles to a claim against the private service provider based on contract. At the same time it is a general tort law principle that there is no vicarious liability for independent contractors, making it difficult also to succeed with a claim against the public entity based on tort law. Thus, a liability gap seems to exist. However, the article demonstrates that there are signs in different jurisdictions that solutions are being found in case law to this problem allowing to some extent for the imposition of some kind of vicarious liability on the public entity. Four different models are identified. The reasoning behind these models varies but they all have in common that the public law nature of the service that has been outsourced somehow plays a role.

scholarly journals THE LIABILITY OF PROVIDERS OF MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES IN NEGLIGENCE

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Gray
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Service Provider ◽  
Duty Of Care ◽  
Health Service Provider ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
High Court ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Individual

In Hunter and New England Local Health District v McKenna the High Court considered the question of the liability in tort of a mental health provider for the actions of someone whom it had briefly treated. After involuntarily detaining the individual under relevant legislation, the service released the individual into the care of a friend. The person released killed his friend. The High Court allowed an appeal against a finding of the New South Wales Court of Appeal that the mental health service provider had owed, and had breached, legal obligations to the family of the person killed, denying compensation to the family on the basis that the service provider did not owe family members a duty of care. It will be argued that the High Court was wrong to deny that a mental health service provider could owe, or did owe, a duty of care to victims of those to whom the service provider provided services. The Court reached its decision utilising reasoning contrary to that of other cases which have involved questions of the liability of public authorities. The decision travels the well-worn path of denying that a public authority owes a duty of care to the public that it serves by asserting the inconsistency of obligations more apparent than real. The decision shows judicial reluctance to hold public authorities to the legal standards expected of other service providers, a reluctance that must be challenged.

A Pricing Model for Effective Radio Spectrum Utilization

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 41-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunil Kumar Singh ◽  
Deo Prakash Vidyarthi
Keyword(s):  
Service Provider ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Radio Spectrum ◽  
Mobile Users ◽  
Mobile Service ◽  
Spectrum Utilization ◽  
Service Pricing ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Utmost Care ◽  
The Individual

Mobile users expect uninterrupted radio services whether operating in a host network or a foreign network. To support this, the cooperation of various mobile service providers becomes very important as they can share their available but unused resources among the mobile users. It has become possible for the mobile users to churn and leave the current service provider, if not happy with the offered services. This, eventually, may affect the revenue severely of the individual service provider besides defaming it. This work proposes a model on service pricing based on service providers' cooperation that utilizes the channels effectively and minimizes the call block and call drop. A penalty, on the service provider, is incorporated in the pricing which encourages a service provider to give utmost care to its users. A simulation experiment was carried out to study the performance of the proposed model, indicating the effectiveness of the model.

Part D The Bank as Service Provider, 21 Syndicated Loans

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Proctor Charles
Keyword(s):  
Service Provider ◽  
Syndicated Loans ◽  
Part D ◽  
Legal Nature ◽  
The Individual

This chapter examines the structure of syndicated (or multi-bank) facilities. It considers the role and liability of the arranger; the role of the agent; the legal nature of the relationships between the individual banks and the borrower; the relationships between the banks themselves; and the particular structure adopted for any security arrangements.

An Appropriate and Complete Tourism Lexicon

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 16-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mihai Ielenicz ◽  
Adrian Nedelcu
Keyword(s):  
Service Provider ◽  
Winter Season ◽  
Aquatic Environments ◽  
The Individual

Activities have been known as starting points in the tourist field since Antiquity. During the millennia, several practical aspects (as types - trips for recreation, sports, specific for the winter season or at the seaside, in aquatic environments, trips for balneal treatments, trips for discovering architectural, artistic treasures, etc., as participation form - from the individual ones to the mass or group ones, as beneficiary or service provider; with general fittings, but also specific ones), as well as theoretical aspects (the progressive achievement of a proper terminology, in order to be used by many participants in the tourist actions; the elaboration of guides, leaflets, encyclopaedias, maps, etc.); complete territorial analyses of tourist resources (considering the revaluation level, approaching tourism issues in treaties, doctoral theses, etc.); the scientific and methodological content of curricula from tourism schools, departments and faculties; setting the meaning of terms and directions in the decisions approved at national and international meetings, etc., have been recorded at the same time with the widening of the concerns in this area. The paper herein approaches the analyses of terms, the extension of the vocabulary basis suitable for the dialogue needs (at least related for the tourist heritage).

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