Background: Personal Information Management (PIM) refers to the tools and activities to save and retrieve personal information for future uses. This study examined the PIM activities of faculty members of Iran University of Medical Sciences (IUMS) regarding their preferred PIM tools and four aspects of acquiring, organizing, storing and retrieving personal information.   Methods : The qualita...

Future Internet for eHealth (Dagstuhl Seminar 12231) Katarzyna Wac, David Hausheer, Markus Fiedler, and Paolo Bonato . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Data Reduction and Problem Kernels (Dagstuhl Seminar 12241) Michael R. Fellows, Jiong Guo, Dániel Marx, and Saket Saurabh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Putting Data on the Map (Dagstuhl Seminar 12261) Stephen Kobourov, Alexander Wolff, and Frank v...

Renewable energies become more important, and they contribute to the EU’s goals for greenhouse-gas reduction. However, their fluctuating nature calls for demand-side-management techniques, which balance energy generation and consumption. Such techniques are currently not broadly deployed. This paper describes the latest results from the FINSENY project on how FutureInternet enablers and market ...

This paper provides an overview of emerging information and communication technologies (ICTs) that can be expected to become socially relevant in the next 10 to 15 years. It describes the results of a dual discourse analysis of publiccations on emerging ICTs. Sources were, on the one hand, government/policy publications and, on the other, publications by research institutions. This discourse an...

An accurate diagnosis of a problem is an important part of the solution. It is precisely for this reason that the Regional Bureau for Arab States has commissioned a group of distinguished Arab intellectuals to produce the Arab Human Development Report. The wealth of unbiased, objective analysis it contains is part of our contribution to Arab peoples and policy-makers in the search for a brighte...

Psychological factors, market sentiments, and shifts in beliefs are believed by many to play a nontrivial role in inducing and amplifying economic fluctuations. Yet, these forces are rarely considered in macroeconomic models. This paper provides an attempt to evaluate the empirical role of expectational shocks on business cycle fluctuations. The paper relaxes the conventional assumption of rati...

Careful monitoring of harmonically bound (or as a limiting case, free) masses is the basis of current and future gravitational wave detectors, and of nanomechanical devices designed to access the quantum regime. We analyze the effects of stochastic localization models for state vector reduction, and of related models for environmental decoherence, on such systems, focusing our analysis on the n...