This paper has reviewed theoretical and empirical studies on information credibility with particular questions of how scholars have conceptualized credibility that is known as a multifaceted concept with underlying dimensions; how credibility has been operationalized and measured in empirical studies, especially in the Web context; what are the important user characteristics that contribute to ...

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has formed a Modeling and Simulation (M&S) Group (MSG) to investigate how M&S can enhance NATO's mission accomplishment and promote cooperation its use. The recently formed MSG-145, is tasked to mature the efforts of the MSG-085 and 048 from an academic study into a truly operational capability. C2SIM provides individual nations a capability to use ...

Interpretation models are generic models of problem solving, describing abstractly data types and inference steps of the problem solving process that process these data. They are a frequently used instrument to specify knowledge level models. This report surveys interpretation models for model-based (consistency-based) diagnostic systems that are based on the General Diagnostic Engine (GDE) par...

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Governance in health is cited as one of the key factors in balancing the concerns of the government and public sector with the interests of civil society/private players, but often remains poorly described and operationalized. Richard Saltman and Antonio Duran look at two aspects in the search for new provider models in a context of health markets signalling liberalisation: (i) the role of the ...