Effectiveness in health services research requires development of specific knowledge and skills for working in partnership with health system decision-makers. In an initial effort to frame capacity-building activities for researchers, we designed a workshop on working collaboratively within the health system. The workshop, based on recent research exploring health syste...

There are two competing architectural styles employed for building Web services: RESTful services and services based on the WS-* standards (also known as SOAP). These two styles have separate follower bases, but many differences between them are ideological rather than factual. In order to promote the healthy growth of Web services research and practice, it is important to distinguish arguments...

Holistic Energy Service Provision has the potential to provide new business opportunities for Facility Management Companies, Building Managers, Energy Providers, Maintenance Providers and many other stakeholders currently working in the area of building design, construction, building operation, energy management, maintenance, etc. since customers wish to get access to all services related to en...

Nowadays, location-based services based on GPS and map data are commonly available. Since GPS does not work in buildings and map data provide geographic information only, such services are limited to outdoor scenarios. Large research effort has been carried out to explore indoor positioning and navigation systems but up to now mostly proprietary and isolated solutions have been proposed. In thi...

Grid computing technologies enable widespread sharing and coordinated us of networked resources, including computing resources. Open Grid Service Architecture (OGSA) marries Web services to grid protocols, thereby making progress in defining interfaces for grid services. We put forward here a hierarchical architecture, which is based on grid service, for parallel computing in grid environment. ...

1474-0346/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier Ltd. A http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aei.2012.10.003 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +353 91 492973. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (E. Curry), JT nell), [email protected] (E. Corry), souleima [email protected] (M. Keane), sean.oriain@ Within the operational phase buildings are now producing more data than ever before, from energy usage...

In a power system, having a high level of renewable energy penetration requires a large amount of ancillary services to balance the supply and demand in real time. Commercial buildings have significant thermal capacity and so offer large potential for providing such services. Recent research has shown that the power consumption of the Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) system can...

In the context of government services, user satisfaction becomes determinant its success. This study aims to develop and examine a model for determining citizen with e-government services using technology acceptance (TAM) trust theory. Specifically, we look at role perceived e-service which consists core facilitating supporting in influencing usefulness e-government. We also see how affects sat...