The DISCUS (Decentralized Information Spaces for Composition and Unification of Services) project is building Columbia PSL's “proof-of-concept” realization of NICCI. NICCI (Network-centric Infrastructure for Command, Control and Intelligence) is a prospective DARPA program concerned with coalition forces in crisis situations; similar requirements are presented by tomorrow’s enterprise applicati...

Background A model of quality management called Strategic Collaborative Quality Management (SCQM) model was developed based on the quality management literature review, the findings of a survey on quality management assessment in healthcare organisations, semi-structured interviews with healthcare stakeholders, and a Delphi study on healthcare quality management experts. The purpose of this stu...

The management of healthcare organizations starts to recognize the relevance of the definition of care products in relation to management information. In the turmoil between costs, care-results and patient satisfaction the right balance is needed and can be found in upcoming information and communication technology. The ICT developments are a challenge in two directions, inside toward massive D...

Widespread implementation and use of electronic health record (EHR) systems has been recognized by healthcare leaders as a cornerstone strategy for systematically reducing medical errors and improving clinical quality. However, EHR adoption requires a significant capital investment for healthcare providers, and cost is often cited as a barrier. Despite the capital requirements, a true business ...

Reusable development can promote the productivity of large workflow systems development. However it has not precluded developers from designing workflow system tailoring to users’ specific needs, though workflow management coalition standardized the five kinds of abstract interfaces of workflow enactment service in workflow reference model. Specific business process characteristics are still su...

With the advance of electronic business relationships over the internet, the linking of cross-organizational business processes in virtual supply chains and other scenarios is rapidly increasing. Existing standards for the interoperability of information systems on the business process level are being adapted to suit the needs of the Internet economy. Especially the use of XML as a domain-indep...

Electronic business relationships over the internet, such as the linking of cross-organizational business processes in virtual supply chains and other scenarios enjoy an increasing interest in the business world. Especially the use of XML as a domain-independent encoding standard for business documents has led to the development of standardized business frameworks, and the development of intero...

Reusable development can promote the productivity of large workflow systems development. However it has not precluded developers from designing workflow system tailoring to users’ specific needs, though workflow management coalition standardized the five kinds of abstract interfaces of workflow enactment service in workflow reference model. Specific business process characteristics are still su...

This paper surveys and analyzes the state of the art of agent-mediated electronic commerce (e-commerce), concentrating particularly on the business-to-consumer (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B) aspects. From the consumer buying behavior perspective, agents are being used in the following activities: need identification, product brokering, buyer coalition formation, merchant brokering, and ne...

Susanne Lohmann for data used in an earlier version of the empirical analysis and participants in the Harvard Seminar in Positive Political Economy for useful comments. None of them is implicated in what follows. Abstract The degree to which voters respond to the macro-economy when deciding their vote is known to depend on institutional factors, including whether the government in power is a co...