Service-oriented architecture concepts and Web Services specifications allow for an infinite binding between the service requestor and the service provider. This open-ended form of interaction constrains the service provider from changing service contracts, policies and endpoints. Other distributed technologies and protocols such as Jini and DHCP provide for the use of a lease to more easily ma...

MultiProtocol Label Switching (MPLS) is used today inside most large Service Provider (SP) networks. In this paper, we analyze the establishment of interdomain MPLS LSPs with QoS constraints. These LSPs cross diverse SP networks that may belong to different companies. We show that using the standard BGP route for the establishment of such LSPs is not sufficient. We propose two path establishmen...

This paper traces the development of a criminal case management system for legal aid funded appeals litigation in a Glasgow based law practice, funded in part by the Teaching Companies Scheme. It attempts to place this development in the context of the general trend towards the deployment of such IT solutions to legal problems in a fast-changing environment (Susskind 1998) and, more particularl...

background service quality generally refers to the non-health and non-clinical aspects of the health services and mainly focuses on relationship between care provider and health customers, and the environment in which care services are delivered. because of undeniable role of service quality on the improving health results, this study aims to assess service quality in rehabilitation faculty phy...

The Medicare Program is conducting a randomized trial of care management services among fee-for-service (FFS) beneficiaries called the Medicare Health Support (MHS) pilot program. Eight disease management (DM) companies have contracted with CMS to improve clinical quality, increase beneficiary and provider satisfaction, and achieve targeted savings for chronically ill Medicare FFS beneficiaries...

Recent technological advances and the heightened expectations of e-health consumers are about to transform the U.S. health care industry. As consumers demand more online services, physicians respond by adopting information technology into their daily routines. In this paper, we first present recent developments within the telemedicine field that necessitate the establishment of a consumer-to-he...

For our participation in TREC-10, we will focus on the searching distributed collections and also on designing and implementing a new search strategy to find homepages. Presented in the first part of this paper is a new merging strategy based on retrieved list lengths, and in the second part a development of our approach to creating retrieval models able to combine both Web page and URL address...

This paper describes XisQuê (http://xisque.di.fc.ul.pt) an online service for real-time, open-domain question answering (QA) on the Portuguese Web.