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Healthcare organizations seek to provide services of high quality and profound safety through Healthcare Information Systems (HIS). Despite significant efforts that have been made, the lack of interoperability still affects the services provided to the patient and citizen (diagnosis, treatment, prescribing, and rehabilitation). In this paper we (a) propose a novel healthcare services classification,...
Low-carbon development is the inevitable trend of national economic development, and as one of the main pollution sources towards urban environment, it is advisable for port to implement a low-carbon withdrawal mechanism, which has become a realistic choice in sustainable development of port city. The necessity of port low-carbon withdrawal mechanism is firstly explained in the paper, and then four...
In this paper, a research model of the impact of family business culture dimensions on control modes is built, based on the theory of cultural and on the main structure of the impact of family culture on control mode, combined with the reality of control mode of Chinese domestic business. What's more, the paper proposes a detailed analysis of how the family cultural dimensions affect the control mode,...
Innovation is a basic requirement for human being civilization progress, Educational and administrational innovation is the necessity for both externally social and economic development, and internally spanning-mode development of education system itself. Educational and administrational innovation must conform to the object of modernization to realize sustainable development. Against the backdrop...
The vast quantity of data contributed and consumed via the Internet provides an environment where Collective Intelligence (CI) can emerge. This article considers CI in relation to the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) paradigm, an environment that has the necessary conditions for the generation of large data sets through frequent peer interactions. We then examine the characteristics of agency and relate agent computing...
Authentication in the document context refers to the ability to trace the origins of a document to a given person or device used to produce it or to a given time or place it was produced. The general approach typically involves comparing physical, visual and/or linguistic properties of a questioned source to reproducible properties of a known or genuine source. The challenges lie in defining acceptable...
This paper presents a proposal for the development of an ontology evolution strategy which refines ontological relations in scientific ontologies. In addition to experts' consensus, it is desirable to define ontological relations between any two concepts in a scientific ontology based on scientific evidence. To address this issue, we can relate ontological relations to different research results obtained...
Delta Dental is the leading provider of Dental benefits in the Midwest, serving nearly 5.1 million members. Delta Dental of Michigan uses Business Rules to articulate complex claims adjudication rules, from legacy COBOL programs. These rules are entirely authored, managed, tested and governed by Subject Matter Experts with no programming background. The Business Rules Architecture incorporates a componentized...
Several approaches have already been proposed to extract both business processes and business rules from a legacy source code. These approaches consider static source code analysis for the extraction procedure. However, business processes have components that can not be directly extracted by static analysis (i.e., participants, responsibilities, and concurrent activities). Moreover, well-known static...
Business processes represent a fundamental asset of a company as they describe the core knowledge underlying its competitive advantage. Tools for modeling and analysis of business processes have to cope with the increasing complexity of these processes. A view on a process intends to abstract from details and make complex processes easier to understand. A process view results from specific transformations...
While several role-related concepts play an important role in business modeling, their definitions, relations, and use differ greatly between languages, papers, and reports. Due to this, the knowledge captured by models is not transferred correctly, and models are incomparable. In this paper, we provide a meta-model and definitions for several role-related concepts based on the practice of existing...
Ethical issues should go along with development in the age of globalization; same is the case with Information Technology (IT), a sub domain of Technology. IT is growing and developing rapidly with the lightening speed, probably leaving some ethical issues, considerations, principles and legal requirements lagging behind. The future of ethical IT plays an significant and realistic role in the way...
WS-BPEL Extension for People (BPEL4People) introduces human activity to Web Services Business Process Execution Language (WSBPEL/ BPEL). Some works have been done on the performance verification of WS-BPEL, but there are not works on the performance verification of WSBPEL4People. In this paper, we propose a model method for the transformation of WS-BPEL4People / BPEL4People into Generalized Stochastic...
Nowadays, we are assisting to a paradigmatic shift for the development of web applications due to the pervasive distribution of their components among a lot of servers, which are dynamically interconnected by web links. As a consequence, the application logic is often defined by exploiting workflow languages since they are more suitable to address the complexity of these new running environments....
The use of traditional fuels such as kerosene for lighting in developing countries have negative health impacts, safety concerns, provide insufficient illumination for tasks such as reading, and are comparatively expensive per unit of light produced. Renewable distributed energy micro-generation technologies have been shown to be a suitable and cost effective alternative. However, the sustainable...
Employment has a vital bearing on people's livelihoods. It is the fundamental prerequisite and basic approach for people to improve their lives. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is seen to extend beyond the statutory obligation to comply with legislation and sees organizations voluntarily taking further steps to improve the quality of life for employees and their families as well as for the local...
Researches on enterprise architecture mainly focus on business process organizing, software development, enterprise application integration and etc., but not much emphasis is focused on the enterprise technical architecture and its components. The paper proposed a domain based integrated enterprise technical architecture for a universal bank, helping to build common patterns to manage bank's technical...
Interactivity is one of the most essential qualities in product design. In terms of interface, this paper analyses several interactive patterns of man-machine interface with a multi-screen view, such as “games pattern”, “enquiry pattern”, “purchase pattern” and “learning pattern”. Besides, looking into the future of society, with the increasingly widened platform and constantly advanced technology,...
Cultures are nowadays perceived as critical and value resources for organizations. To be competitive in the globalized economy, business operations must leverage cultural differences and avoid conflicts and fragmentation through understanding, cultural melding, appreciation, and adaptation. This paper presents our preliminary study focusing on transforming cross-cultural practices in a virtual team...
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