The advancement of wireless communication and mobile telecommunication has made mobile commerce possible. In the retail business under the evolving market, the users would like to utilize the appropriate services based on their preference and situation continuously. The service providers need to grasp the current requirements of the majority of the users in the local service area in order to pr...

The aim of this study was to describe the reorientation of a remote primary health-care service, in the Kimberley region of Australia, its impact on access to services and the factors instrumental in bringing about change. A unique community-initiated health service partnership was developed between a community-controlled Aboriginal health organisation, a government hospital and a population he...

This article presents an SDI-based approach to implement selected web services within the Land Parcel Identification System (LPIS) Quality Assurance framework, according to the Commission Regulation 1122/2009. The Test Bed uses OGC conforming web services allowing for: (1) agricultural data transformation from national data schemas to the common LPIS Core Model, (2) transferring, validating and...

In this chapter, we present a discussion on our experiences with the development of Web service specifications. Web services, and the service oriented architecture model engendered therein, have gained significant traction in recent years with deployments in ever increasing domains. In this chapter, we describe our experiences with several Web service specifications. In general lessons learned,...

Considering the importance of user-innovation knowledge to product and service innovation, this paper proposed knowledge discovering and analyzing methods on user-innovation communities based on weighted knowledge network (WKN). First, web mining methods were used for getting forum posts in virtual user-innovation communities, then the acquired keywords and the statistical data were processed a...

Definitions of "urban" and "rural" developed for general purposes may not reflect the organization and delivery of healthcare. This research used cluster analysis to group Local Health Areas based on the distribution of healthcare spending across service categories. Though total spending was similar, the metropolitan areas of Vancouver and Victoria were identified as distinct from non-metropoli...