This work draws on the cultural historical activity-theory and the theory of social systems to model socio-technical systems. The concepts of practice, system, and context work as ...
Abstract Most SSL/TLS-based e-commerce applications employ conventional mechanisms for user authentication. These mechanisms—if decoupled from SSL/TLS session establishment—are...
Rolf Oppliger, Ralf Hauser, David A. Basin, Aldo R...
This paper discusses the concept of information market. The authors of this paper have been involved in several aspects of information retrieval research. In continuing this resear...
Patrick van Bommel, Bas van Gils, Henderik Alex Pr...
The aim of this paper is to introduce a modelling concept and structuring principle for rule-based systems the semantics of which is not restricted to a sequential behavior, but ca...
Medical information systems and standards are increasingly based on principled models of at least three distinct sorts of information – patient data, concepts (terminology), and ...
Alan L. Rector, Peter D. Johnson, Samson W. Tu, Ch...