background following the implementation of family physician plan in rural areas, the quantity of provided services has been increased, but what leads on the next topic is the improvement in expected quality of service, as well. the present study aims at determining the gap between patients’ expectation and perception from the quality of services provided by family physicians during the spring a...

the current internet inherently has a degree of survivability due to the connection less ip protocol. dynamic routing protocols are designed to react to faults by changing routes when routers learn about topology changes via routing information updates (e.g., link status advertisements). loss of quality of service (qos) has not been an issue because current internet traffic is the best-effort. ...

Understanding the effect of pervasive services on user context is critical to many context-aware applications. Detailed descriptions of context-altering services are necessary, and manually adapting them to the local environment is a tedious and error-prone process. We present a method for automatically providing service descriptions by observing and learning from the behavior of a service with...

The rise in demand for real-time applications on the Internet necessitates Quality of Service (QoS). Differentiated Services (DiffServ) is one of the technologies used currently to provide QoS and service differentiation. It is simple and scalable. It provides service differentiation to aggregates, mainly through the Assured Forwarding (AF) per-hop behaviour. Previous work on fair sharing of ne...

execution plan: a composite service in the representation format of the run-time execution technology. Abstract plan: a high-level schema that describes the control flow between atomic services, which form a composite service.plan: a high-level schema that describes the control flow between atomic services, which form a composite service. Abstract service: a high-level description of the capabi...

conclusions by studying the gap between perceptions and expectations of students from counseling services, we can provide the base for developing appropriate programs for the improvement of counseling services. results the result of this study showed that there were some differences between students’ perceptions and their expectations of counseling services quality (z = -12.91; p < 0.0001). the...

background: determining quality requirements and quality dimensions is one of the most reliable ways of providing high quality services. the objective of the present study was to investigate the association between quality requirements and quality dimensions according to the points of view of physicians, nurses, and patients. materials and methods: this descriptive study was carried out in hosp...

In this paper we present a mix-type remote electronic voting system belonging to the “proof of product with redundancy” paradigm. Votes are composed using a redundancy system that permits to prove the correct composition and plaintext awareness of votes at vote reception and check the validity of the mixing operation while preventing some privacy or denial of service attacks that were possible ...

Context aware service which provides best suitable services for a user by analyzing user’s needs and situational information, will be one of the promising next generation (NG) mobile services. In this paper, we propose the NG mobile service environment based on the NG mobile service platform and evolutional phases of context aware services in the NG mobile service environment. We then introduce...