Background: Number of Iranian articles published in ISI journals has increased significantly in recent years. Despite the quantitative progress, studies performed in Iran represent low collaboration in research therefore, we decided to evaluate collaboration in Golestan University of Medical Sciences (GOUMS) research projects. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, all GOUMS researc...

The system support needed to implement even prototypical Electronic Meeting Systems (EMS) or, more generally, synchronous collaboration tools is not commonly provided by today’s programming environments. New ideas in user interface design or application-level concurrency control in EMS should be incorporated into reasonably reliable prototype systems in order to gain valuable practical experien...

During the past decade, the proliferation of social media has infiltrated various sectors of social and business communications. Of particular interest is the growth of health related websites and the healthcare sector’s adoption of social media. In this paper, we develop a typology of health 2.0 collaboration platforms and websites. According to the proposed typology, two major types of actors...

Since 1988, healthcare has been considered a citizen's right in Brazil. The Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS), has undergone development and expansion to ensure universal health coverage for the Brazilian public, the world's fifth largest population. The coordination of effective communications between primary care physicians, specialists and patients is a significant challenge, particularly the ref...

Greening of computing processes is an environmental strategy gaining momentum in the 21st century as evidenced by increased virtual communications. Because of the rising cost of fuel to travel to meetings and conferences, corporations are adopting sophisticated technologies that provide a “personal” experience for geographically disbursed colleagues to interact in real time. This article highli...

The purpose of this research is to develop a grounded theory model to explain the factors influencing collaborative learning in higher education, the role of technology in facilitating collaboration, and the outcome of collaboration. We assigned 28 participants to small groups to work on course-related questions; half of the groups were face-to-face groups and the other half groups were collabo...

With an ever-increasing number of companies outsourcing their information systems’ operations, issues associated with the establishment and management of collaborative relationships have attracted considerable recent interest. In particular, a good deal of attention has been directed towards the role that power plays in collaborative relationships and, specifically, to methods of distinguishing...

Creation of an ontology according to some common plan is best accomplished collaboratively. This is sometimes contradicted by the distribution of the ontology’s developers. An obvious solution therefore is to build collaboration into ontology development tools. Such support necessarily includes both the technical means to perform editing operations upon an ontology, but also support for the com...

Collaborative information systems in a P2P scenario are characterized by a set of independent peers that dynamically need to cooperate by sharing data and services. For effective collaboration, in absence of a global view of the resources shared across the information systems, semantic interoperability tools are required. In the paper we focus on interoperability issues for service discovery an...