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Cooperation Among Technical Specialists in a Distributed Computing Environment
Distributed computing environments, exemplified by client/server computing, place more power in the hands of end-users. So, as organizations move to distribute their computing, they must also move technical specialists closer to these users. This leads to a situation where the distributed technical specialists, while close to their user, are isolated from each other. This isolation from others’ expertise may lead some specialists to “reinvent the wheel” unless they establish cooperative relationships with other distributed specialists
Designing community care systems with AUML
This paper describes an approach to developing an appropriate agent environment appropriate for use in community care applications. Key to its success is that software designers collaborate with environment builders to provide the levels of cooperation and support required within an integrated agent–oriented community system. Agent-oriented Unified Modeling Language (AUML) is a practical approach to the analysis, design, implementation and management of such an agent-based system, whilst providing the power and expressiveness necessary to support the specification, design and organization of a health care service. The background of an agent-based community care application to support the elderly is described. Our approach to building agent–oriented software development solutions emphasizes the importance of AUML as a fundamental initial step in producing more general agent–based architectures. This approach aims to present an effective methodology for an agent software development process using a service oriented approach, by addressing the agent decomposition, abstraction, and organization characteristics, whilst reducing its complexity by exploiting AUML’s productivity potential. </p
NEW METHODS REGARDING THE ORGANISATION AND FUNCTIONALITY OF THE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT IN THE VIRTUAL ECONOMY
Globalization represents the destiny humankind is drawing near, everybody being affected to a larger or smaller extent by its irreversible mechanism.The business environment relies on the expansion of markets globally. Therefore it is achieved the transivirtual enterprise, virtual society, mobile Web applications
Quo vadimus: Coming to grips with the information world
The new information-oriented culture in which we find ourselves has created new relationships, new stimulating and expanding opportunities, new methods of doing our work, and new environments in which we carry out our work. An integral part of the NASA aerospace research and development (R and D) process is the scientific and technical information (STI) associated with it; it is both a raw material (input) and a product (output) of this process. Within this process, the NASA STI Program is tasked to provide information management and services, to ensure that accurate and timely STI is generated and entered into an appropriate information service and made available in a usable form to those who have a need for it; in essence, a means to exploit both internal (NASA corporate) and pertinent external (other governmental/industrial/foreign) information to meet the requirements of the R and D community. To understand the STI Program management issues, it is critical to understand the role of the STI Program in the context of the R and D process. STI management must become part of the accepted culture of the R and D community, but it cannot become so unless adopted and accepted by it. A start should be made now to integrate the NASA STI Program into the R and D infrastructure, including funding and operational control. Within this infrastructure, we must obtain management commitment, review and produce policy reflecting the organizational status, allocate responsibilities, and set to work on implementing the true requirements of the R and D community
Electronic Medical Record Adoption in New Zealand Primary Care Physician Offices
Describes EMR adoption in New Zealand's primary healthcare system, including how government investment was secured and data protection laws, unique patient identifiers, and standards and certification were established, with lessons for the United States
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