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Information processing in healthcare demands reliable, relevant, systematic, integrated, and managed data throughout care delivery. This leads, even with IT, to increased and time-consuming activities and can cause potentially dangerous situations for the patient as important data may not be available when needed, which in turn can lead to wrong diagnostic or therapeutic decisions. Consequently, hospital...
Contemporary view on Smart City is very much static and infrastructure-centric, focusing on installation and subsequent management of Edge devices and analytics of data provided by these devices. While this still allows a more efficient management of city's infrastructure, optimizations and savings in different domains, the existing architectures are currently designed as single-purpose, vertically-siloed...
The engineering of complex systems and systems of systems (SoS) often leads to complex and very-time consuming modelling tasks (MTs). MTs can be distributed in several autonomous and heterogeneous places, a place being a set of stakeholders and their practices. An issue is to mastering MTs while taking into account the constraints of their large complex engineering environments (LCEE). A step toward...
Nowadays Opinion Mining has become an emerging topic of research due to lot of opinionated data available on Blogs & social networking sites. Tracking different types of opinions & summarizing them can provide valuable insight to different types of opinions to users who use Social networking sites to get reviews about any product, service or any topic. Analysis of opinions & its classification...
The saturation of the physical environment with sensors, the proliferation of personal mobile computing, and the prominence ofArtificial Intelligence in (so-called) 'smart' objects has created new opportunities for the development of socio-technical systems. We are particularly interested in the convergence of people and computational processes (agents) in the creation of digital communities for sustainabilityand...
In regard to the LEADER program (European Union initiative for rural development), in the paper the authors propose a model for assessing the governance system of Local Action Groups (LAGs) in terms of structure, decision making processes and principles that ensure a clear and transparent activity thus creating significant value for the community. Governance, in particular, is a highly important theme...
Information technology investment in a company driven by the importance of the information needed by a company. The company seeks to increase the value of IT investments that has been spent on the field. The board of directors of the company has also understood the importance of an effective and efficient IT environment. In the present study, we will plan IT governance framework that will be aligned...
Ongoing project failures led to the development of an international standard for the governance of IT. Decades earlier, the science of Cybernetics established theorems and laws for organizations to be effective under changing environments. This paper examines the common areas of governance of IT and Cybernetics, and proposes directions for future development.
The Digital Oman Strategy (e.oman) provides the necessary ICT infrastructure facilities to link and bring together Oman's government entities on a common infrastructure platform. e.oman supports the easy use of ICT by government entities. This column focuses on how the Oman Information Technology Authority (ITA) approaches integrating the entire government in the right way. It also examines one of...
In cloud service provisioning scenarios with a changing demand from consumers, it is appealing for cloud providers to leverage only a limited amount of the virtualized resources required to provide the service. However, it is not easy to determine how much resources are required to satisfy consumers expectations in terms of Quality of Service (QoS). Some existing frameworks provide mechanisms to adapt...
Several indicators suggest that the international law of cyber security is in the midst of a crisis. First, proposals of internationally binding treaties by the leading stakeholders, including Russia and China, have been met with little enthusiasm by other states, and are generally seen as having limited prospects of success. Second, states are extremely reluctant to commit themselves to specific...
Numerous emerging technologies promise great, but finite, benefits while also placing humanity at tremendous risk, even the risk of extinction (an infinite loss). This paper argues that these risky technologies need to be developed with great care and that three strategies should be broadly implemented in order to facilitate risk mitigation and adaptation towards these risks. The first strategy is...
One of the main objectives of local government is the effective delivery of services. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) plays a major role in this regard. Various best practices and standards indicate the importance of corporate governance of ICT across all types of sectors. According to the Auditor General, in the South African context, there exists a definite lack in implementing corporate...
Information processing in health care demands reliable, relevant, systematic, integrated, and managed data throughout care delivery. This leads, even with IT, to increased and time-consuming activities and can cause potentially dangerous situations for the patient as important data may not be available when needed, which in turn can lead to wrong diagnostic or therapeutic decisions. Consequently,...
Some theoretical landmarks are discussed allowing to situate the performance indicators in relation to the business scope and objectives, the information systems, and the information technologies, and to guarantee completeness, effectiveness, and efficiency of defining and implementing these indicators. An enterprise architecture framework is proposed, and a declination of the approach as a roadmap...
Governance is one of the key differentiating elements between traditional systems and systems of systems. While systems are governed by a single authority, systems within a system of systems are often independently governed or governed by fully empowered entities. Such independence is a necessary condition for the autonomy of each constituent system and for enabling the concept of belonging. At the...
Electronic government has a history of repeating projects that previously proved difficult to implement. One possible reason for this is that we do not learn enough from past experiences. Lessons are not widely shared and we do not always get the "full story". Only a narrow group have the ability to understand and access research findings. The use of a storytelling approach could make electronic...
With a classical literature review of research on public sector reform, IT governance, and eGovernment, this article aims to identify the role of governance and cooperation in the public sector's implementation and actual use of citizen eServices. Thirty-four eGovernment stage models with 11 overarching stages and five metacharacteristics are identified, mapped, and reviewed for their focus, strengths,...
Generally project performance is assessed based on the contracted scope and objectives. But for an innovative IT project, it is tough to estimate the exact project performance. Though prior research has studied IT project failures/success, there are relatively few studies that have examined the evolution of project scope during its implementation, which is salient in the case of innovative information...
As an effect of the modernization policy in the administrative processes inside the Ecuadorean Central Government, the usage of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) has increased during the last years within more than 300 of the most important and high-ranked public institutions. Likewise, the citizen access to Internet and e-Government services has grown due to the democratization of...
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