Helping Businesses to Identify Their Opportunities

Towards effective knowledge systems: Helping consultants identify their world view

On Correlating ISP Topologies to Their Businesses

Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have different growth or decline patterns in terms of topological and economic characteristics. While some ISPs may have a significant correlation between their topological and business properties, others may not show such strong techno-economic dependence. In this paper, we examine the relationship between the network topology characteristics of the ISPs and t...

Faculty Helping Themselves to Improve Their InstructionalAbilities

"I Can't Get No Satisfaction": Helping Autonomous Systems Identify Their Unsatisfied Interdomain Interests

Given the distributed and business-driven nature of the Internet, economic interests of Autonomous Systems (ASes) may be incompatible. Previous works studied specific effects of incompatible interests, especially BGP policy conflicts leading to routing and forwarding anomalies. In this paper, we rather focus on the effects of incompatible interests that do not trigger such anomalies. We take th...

A qualitative interpretation of challenges associated with helping patients with multiple chronic diseases identify their goals

BACKGROUND Patients with multiple chronic diseases are usually treated according to disease-specific guidelines, with outcome measurements focusing mostly on biomedical indicators (e.g. blood sugar levels or lung function). However, for multimorbidity, a goal-oriented approach focusing on the goals defined by the individual patient, may be more suitable. Despite the clear theoretical and concep...