There is growing interest from health policy makers in eliciting consumer preferences for health care services. This is particularly the case when assessing the likely impact of innovations. Some people may be wary of innovations because they prefer the service they have previously experienced. Consumer preferences for an existing and a hypothetical new bowel cancer testing programme were measu...

Service innovations, enabled by the confluence of big data, mobile solutions, cloud, social, and cognitive computing, and the Internet of Things, have gained a lot of attention among many enterprises in the past few years because they represent promising ways for companies to effectively and rapidly deliver new services. But one of today's most pervasive and bedeviling challenges is how to star...

To accommodate real-time dynamic large scale service composition requirements, Event-Driven Service Oriented Architecture (EDSOA) is introduced to solve the shortcomings of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Our EDSOA service execution platform is built on Web Service Notification based distributed topic-based publish/subscribe infrastructure services. This paper presents our innovations at s...

The way in which governments interact with their constituents has radically changed due to the recent innovations in information and communication technology (ICT). In spite of the considerable literature on digital or e-government, a clear understanding of the dimensions along which the success of automating government-constituent interactions can be measured is still lacking. This is a critic...