PURPOSE To advance mental health care use by developing recommendations to increase trust from the general public and patients, those who have been in contact with services, those who have never been in contact and those who care for their families in the mental health care system. METHODS We performed a systematic literature search and the retrieved documents were evaluated by two independen...

The position paper at hand points out how to use semantic technologies enabling the development of ambient services. Therefore a 4layered approach that integrates so-called object information with additional available information from external resources is introduced. The proposed approach is exemplified by the description of an innovative service called the Federative Library. The Federative L...

Web servers providing live coverage of events are hard to design due to a high degree of variation in the load, variation in geographical distribution of users and the frequency with which content is updated. In this paper, we propose domain caching, a technique that dynamically distributes the load on the server by instructing selected clients (domain caches) to cache server content and servic...

It is of great advantage to integrate building automation systems (BAS) in intelligent buildings using networks (LAN or WAN).This paper addresses three technical issues in the integration of BASs. One is the integration between BASs and existing enterprise applications. The second is the integration of BASs which adopt different international standardized protocols. The third is the integration...

Professional service providers are exploiting the web to deliver eservices to a larger but also more diverse client base. This has increased the need for building trust between them and their clients and within the firm itself. In this paper the antecedents of trust are identified and matched against strategies that public accounting practices could adopt to build trust. Eleven antecedents for ...

A number of fundamental abstractions and supporting software mechanisms have been developed for simplifying the problems associated with programming highly dependable distributed systems. For example, transactions provide all or nothing execution despite failures, while ordered atomic multicast supports the replicated state machine approach to fault tolerance by ensuring that changes to the sta...

This article proposes Hermes, a Semantic Web-based framework for building personalized news services. It makes use of ontologies for knowledge representation, natural language processing techniques for semantic text analysis, and semantic query languages for specifying wanted information. Hermes is supported by an implementation of the framework, the Hermes News Portal, a tool which allows user...

We consider a real-time, distributed service to be dependable if it continues to have timely, predictable behavior even in the presence of partial failures. Services with this property are desirable in a host of real-time scenarios, including factory floor automation, medical monitoring equipment, and combat systems. Most distributed services built with contemporary fault-tolerance toolkits are...

In this paper we investigate a new computing paradigm, called SocialCloud, in which computing nodes are governed by social ties driven from a bootstrapping trustpossessing social graph. We investigate how this paradigm differs from existing computing paradigms, such as grid computing and the conventional cloud computing paradigms. We show that incentives to adopt this paradigm are intuitive and...

| This paper describes an approach to building a distributed software component system for scienti c and engineering applications that is based on representing GRID services as application-level software components. These GRID services provide tools such as registry and directory services, event services, and remote component creation. While a servicesbased architecture for Grids and other dist...