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Event-Cloud Platform to Support Decision- Making in Emergency Management
The challenge of this paper is to underline the capability of an Event-Cloud
Platform to support efficiently an emergency situation. We chose to focus on a
nuclear crisis use case. The proposed approach consists in modeling the
business processes of crisis response on the one hand, and in supporting the
orchestration and execution of these processes by using an Event-Cloud Platform
on the other hand. This paper shows how the use of Event-Cloud techniques can
support crisis management stakeholders by automatizing non-value added tasks
and by directing decision- makers on what really requires their capabilities of
choice. If Event-Cloud technology is a very interesting and topical subject,
very few research works have considered this to improve emergency management.
This paper tries to fill this gap by considering and applying these
technologies on a nuclear crisis use-case
Why hasn't electronic bill presentment and payment taken off?
The delivery and payment of bills over the Internet could offer many advantagesâlow processing costs and enhanced marketing opportunities for billers, savings in time and postage for customers. Nevertheless, electronic billing has not found favor with potential users. A lack of coordination among billers and customers, combined with the high fixed costs of the new technology, may help account for the cool reception.Electronic funds transfers ; Electronic commerce ; Technology ; Payment systems
HealthCare Partners: Building on a Foundation of Global Risk Management to Achieve Accountable Care
Describes the progress of a medical group and independent practice association in forming an accountable care organization by working with insurers as part of the Brookings-Dartmouth ACO Pilot Program. Lists lessons learned and elements of success
Transformational government and assistive web base technologies
Transformational government has been on the European agenda for several years. However, progress towards realising the full potential of ICT to transform public services for older adults with age related cognitive impairments has been very limited. Highlighting such limitations this paper demonstrates how assistive web base technologies can be developed to improve the public services for older adults with age related cognitive impairments. However the paper argues that these transformations can be obstructed if there is no strong leadership and political commitment from people at many levels in public sectors and governments
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