Health Information Services deal with repository, retrieval and make use of medical information in order to improve service quality and reduce cost. Medical staff, administrative ...
Second Life is an online virtual world that is gaining popularity in academic institutions as an alternative means for collaborative and distance education. However, the number of...
By examining searcher behavior on a large search engine, we have identified seven basic kinds of task behaviors that can be observed in web search session logs. In the studies rep...
Daniel M. Russell, Diane Tang, Melanie Kellar, Rob...
For more than a decade e-Commerce and eGovernment applications have made major impacts in their respective sectors, private and public. Some time ago, we presented early insights ...
Hans Jochen Scholl, Karine Barzilai-Nahon, Jin-Hyu...
Software practitioners experience pressure to compromise their work and their reasonable care for others. Even as software becomes more beneficial, pervasive, and interconnected, ...
Proper management of coastal wells is important in order to satisfy demand, minimize costs, control salinity increase, and ultimately to define water resource strategies which are...
T. Ka'eo Duarte, Riccardo Minciardi, Michela Robba...
The computing resources in a volunteer computing system are highly diverse in terms of software and hardware type, speed, availability, reliability, network connectivity, and othe...
The effective management of a service organization requires measuring system performance on many attributes. Customer waiting time is inherent to nearly all service operations and...
New systems can be created by assembling a set of elementary services provided by various stakeholders in a service composition. Service composition is not a trivial endeavor and ...
In recent years the scientific journal market faces significant evolutions that may cause major changes in the way of publishing research results. In this connection, open access ...