Pricing of surgery and nursing care, as critical parts of hospital services consuming professional knowledge and manpower skill resources, were low and did not correctly reflect the value of the care.
Mozambique borrowed heavily so that it could fund development, alleviate its shortage of foreign exchange, and, eventually, import basic necessities such as food; by the 1990s debt service was consuming one-fourth of annual foreign exchange earnings.
Thus, Apple built an integrated service for consuming music in a competitive field previously comprised of fragmented components.
Launched publicly last month, Mindsy is a new UK startup that's building a Netflix-style service for consuming e-learning content, specifically online video courses.
Stats about Twitch are mind boggling: The company brags that 50 million people use the service monthly, consuming more than 13 billion minutes of video.
Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are considered to be among the most crucial security challenges in current networks because they significantly disrupt the availability of a service by consuming extreme amount of resource and/or by creating link congestions.
The agents are categorized into two groups, i.e., agents offering services as service provider agents (SPA) and agents consuming services as service requesting agents (SRA).
This paper presented an investigation of the utility of various context-caching strategies and proposed the employment of a bipartite caching mechanism in a cloud-based context broker that facilitated context provisioning between context providing services and consuming applications.
First, there must exist a service that facilitates the matching of service offers from collaborating parties and service requests from consuming organizations.
Service descriptions (WSDL documents) should be ideally understood easily by service stakeholders so that the process of consuming services is simplified.
