“Information and Communications Technology for Environmental Regulation: Developing a Research Agenda”: Workshop Report

Authorization models for secure information sharing: a survey and research agenda

This article presents a survey of authorization models and considers their 'fitness-for-purpose' in facilitating information sharing. Network-supported information sharing is an important technical capability that underpins collaboration in support of dynamic and unpredictable activities such as emergency response, national security, infrastructure protection, supply chain integration and emerg...

A Research Agenda for Business-Driven Information Technology

On Demand Computing is a popular vision of the future in which businesses will respond nimbly to new opportunities and threats. Unfortunately, the ever-growing complexity of IT is a key inhibitor of this vision, as it raises the cost and risk of altering systems, rendering them ever more ponderous. Since the purpose of autonomic computing is to reverse the trend of increasing IT complexity, it ...

Developing a Research Agenda for the Analysis of Product Supply: A Response to the Recent Commentaries

Developing a research agenda for assisted living.

PURPOSE We describe an approach to identifying knowledge gaps, research questions, and methodological issues for assisted living (AL) research. DESIGN AND METHODS We undertook an inventory of AL literature and research in progress and commissioned background papers critiquing knowledge on selected subtopics. With an advisory committee, we identified a comprehensive list of researchable questi...

The crossroads of GIS and health information: a workshop on developing a research agenda to improve cancer control

Cancer control researchers seek to reduce the burden of cancer by studying interventions, their impact in defined populations, and the means by which they can be better used. The first step in cancer control is identifying where the cancer burden is elevated, which suggests locations where interventions are needed. Geographic information systems (GIS) and other spatial analytic methods provide ...