Trustworthiness besides other decision making factors like technical or regulatory requirements can be one key aspect for the decision making in coalition formation processes with agents in the energy domain. In this paper the trustworthiness facet information security is used to describe the realized security measures and standards of the systems for coalising energy agents as one trust buildi...

BACKGROUND Community coalitions are increasingly recognized as important strategies for addressing health disparities. By providing the opportunity to pool resources, they provide a means to develop and sustain innovative approaches to affect community health. OBJECTIVES This article describes the challenges and lessons learned in building the Asian American Hepatitis B Program (AAHBP) coalit...

The RWJF/AARP National Campaign for Action established a goal of establishing Action Coalitions in every state by 2012. Last year, a small Steering Committee formed in Nebraska and used two conceptual models to guide the organization and development of its Action Coalition. The purpose of this article is to present the Internal Coalition Outcome Hierarchy (ICOH) model that guided development of...

BACKGROUND One-third of the US population is obese, and childhood obesity has tripled since the late 1970s. Childhood obesity is a significant health issue requiring interventions on individual, interpersonal, community, organizational, and policy levels. Community coalitions offer successful strategies for engaging community partners with health improvement goals. COMMUNITY CONTEXT In 2008, ...