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Telemedicine means delivering health care services to remote locations by ICT (Information and Communication Technology). Several types of telemedicine systems exist: by this paper, we focus on teleconsulting systems. We report here about a telemedicine project in one of the poorest country worldwide, Burundi. After gathering the requirements, which strongly differ from the requirements of a telemedicine...
There are many social issues in Iran which affect citizens on multiple levels that government e-services attempt to address. However, these services could be improved. This paper addresses this need by proposing the Iranian citizen's satisfaction Indexes for using e-government services. It proposes a comprehensive satisfaction index to evaluate the various e-government services in Iran. In order to...
The following topics are dealt with: neural networks; fuzzy systems; evolutionary computation; adaptive dynamic programming and reinforcement learning; computational finance and economics; data mining; computer games; virtual reality; intelligent systems; robotics and cybernetics engineering; operations research; signal processing; human factors, and social issues; parallel and distributed architectures;...
E-government envisages transforming internal and external ties of state agencies by exploring the capacity of the internet, electronic and telecommunication technologies in order to improve the quality of services' delivery, to enlarge the scope of public participation in the matters of state governance and to enhance inner processes. This paper states the external and internal barriers to e-government...
E-Commerce has become the world's fastest growing business model since 1995. During the transformation procedure, a solid theoretical and technical foundation of E-Commerce can help undergraduates to establish advantages in the phases of job hunting, career development and entrepreneurship constitution. From the perspective of development, the curriculum should not only focus on E-Commerce technology,...
Indiana University School of Medicine and the Rutgers Tele-rehabilitation Institute have collaborated for over a year on a clinical pilot study of in-home hand telerehabiltation. Virtual reality videogames were used to train three adolescents with hemiplegic cerebral palsy. Training duration varied between 6 and 11 months. The investigators summarize medical, technological, legal, safety, social,...
Addressing the research opportunities we've identified could substantially broaden the spectrum of multilingual text-mining and its practicality for supporting global S&T knowledge management. These opportunities also share a common set of challenges that deserve further attention. For example, competitive intelligence surveillance, which allows organizations to understand their current and potential...
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