PURPOSE To determine if and how the outcome quality from a client perspective is related to process characteristics and structure of Regional Individual Needs Assessment Agencies (RIOs) regulating access to long-term care services in The Netherlands. THEORY Because of decentralised responsibilities, ultimo 1999 85 RIOs were set up. RIOs differ in their structural and process characteristics. ...

Rich Internet applications are becoming increasingly distributed, as demonstrated by the popularity of AJAX/Web 2.0 applications such as Hotmail, Google Maps, Facebook, and many others. A typical multi-tier AJAX application consists of a server component implemented in Java J2EE, PHP or ASP.NET and a client-side component executing in JavaScript. The resulting application is more performant and...

Recently new protocols have been proposed in IETF for protecting remote client authentication protoocols by running them within a secure tunnel. Examples of such protocols are PIC, PEAP and EAP-TTLS. One goal of these new protocols is to enable the migration from legacy client authentication protocols to more secure protocols, e.g., from plain EAP type to, say, PEAP. In these protocols, the sec...

The caching of data and/or locks at client workstations is an eeective technique for improving the performance of a client-server database system. This paper extends an earlier performance study of client-server caching in several ways. The rst is a re-examination of heuristics for deciding dynamically between propagating changes or invalidating remote copies of data pages in order to maintain ...