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Background The vision of transforming health systems into learning health systems (LHSs) that rapidly and continuously transform knowledge into improved health outcomes at lower cost is generating increased interest in government agencies, health organizations, and health research communities. While existing initiatives demonstrate that different approaches can succeed in making the LHS vision a reality,...
The Systems Modeling Language (SysML) is a popular and standardized UML profile for systems engineering applications. In addition to seven conventional UML diagram types, SysML supports requirement diagrams and tables that can be used to capture requirements, their attributes, and their relationships. However, several important concepts such as goals and contributions are not predefined in SysML,...
Knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) such as management consulting, research and development, and IT outsourcing, have become a key component of most industrialized economies. As such, there has been a growing number of empirical studies investigating the way in which KIBS providers, clients, and partners collaboratively create value. These studies provide an important opportunity to improve...
This article proposes to conceptualize service system entities as intentional agents in order to account for the high‐level interests and expected benefits that drive their interactions. Such a conceptualization offers a useful ground for the design of service systems through agent‐oriented modeling, in particular i* (short for distributed intentionality). i* could provide an improved support to the...
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