This paper discusses the Akshaya E-Government project. The paper uses general concepts borrowed from actor network theory to discuss the ongoing negotiation that shapes E-Government projects. We aim at shedding light on the importance of the dynamic interactions that shape the impact of ICT on government polices. In particular, we show that the nature of the service delivered and the socioecono...

OBJECTIVE To describe and illustrate the geographic distribution of pedestrian crash sites in an urban setting (Montreal, Canada) with an alternative data source. METHODS Data on pedestrian victims were extracted for a 5-year period (1999-2003) from ambulance services information systems. The locations of crash sites and pedestrian victim density were mapped using a geographic information sys...

This report documents the programme and outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 12342 “Engineering Multiagent Systems”. The seminar brought together researchers from both academia and industry to identify the potential for and facilitate convergence towards standards for agent technology. As such it was particularly relevant to industrial research. A key objective of the seminar, moreover, has been to est...

With careful theoretical development and empirical data examination, this paper investigates several key factors that influence the IT usage in Shanghai firms: technology resource, human resource and environment resource. On the basis of the resource-based view and the process model, the study imports government regulation policies, as well as e-government actions, as environmental resource to ...

This report documents the program and the outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 17301 “User-Generated Content in Social Media”. Social media have a profound impact on individuals, businesses, and society. As users post vast amounts of text and multimedia content every minute, the analysis of this user generated content (UGC) can offer insights to individual and societal concerns and could be beneficial ...

 Many Internet sites and media companies (Amazon.com, YouTube, Netflix, Yahoo, Tripadvisor, Last.fm, IMDb) are developing and deploying RSs as part of the services they provide to their subscribers;  At institutions of higher education around the world, undergraduate and graduate courses are dedicated entirely to RSs; tutorials on RSs are very popular at computer science conferences;  There ...

The fundamental function of information technology (IT), whether internal or external, is the costeffective provision of IT services that meet organizational needs and align with organizational strategy. With ever-increasing adoption of IT management “best practices,” industry now leads the academic community by recognizing the need for IT professionals educated in the IT service management (IT...

From June 3-6, 2012, the Dagstuhl Seminar “Future Internet for eHealth” was held in Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics. During this seminar, participants presented their current research, and ongoing work and open problems were discussed. The executive summary and abstracts of the talks given during the seminar are put together in this paper. Seminar 03.–06. June, 2012 – www.dags...