undoubtedly, information technology (it) has undergone extensive developments in various social and economic spheres; its effect on human society is in such a way that the world today is referred as information society. besides, information technology, attributed as the main agent of global change, is to achieve meta- organization purposes. it also pertains to appropriate information formulated...

the study was carried out to assess the implication of the use of selected information and communication technologies (icts) for extension service delivery in nigeria. the simple random technique was used to select fifty percent of the total extension agents which equivalent to forty-two respondents as sample size for the study. frequency counts, percentages, mean and standard deviation were us...

ever changing needs of society to which the health sector has to respond, makes the health sector reform inevitable for any country worldwide. increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of health services, equity, sustainable financing and management improvement are the main objectives of health sector reform. healthcare reform was set high on the new administration’s agenda with the start of ...

introduction: in the current world of business, benefiting from information technology is considered as one of the main factors to develop and improve the performance of organizations. this study was performed to identify access to infrastructures of information technology among the managers and executive experts of health departments in iranian universities of medical sciences. it also tried t...

introduction: the internet has quickly become a major player in the quest for information. researchers readily employ the internet as a tool for information retrieval because it can provide fast access to vast amounts of information from a multitude of sources. the purpose of this study is to investigate the role of the internet in locating information in najaf abad azad university. methods: it...

introduction: employee empowerment is a process that requires appropriate conditions in the organization. the application of information systems in the health sector as a pragmatic approach and critical element in empowering employees provides the possibility of enhancement of the capacities and development capabilities of human resources. the purpose of this study was to investigate the relati...

In this paper we discuss the distributed simulation of agent-based systems in HLA. Using the SIM AGENT toolkit and the Tileworld scenario as an example, we present a design proposal showing how the HLA can be used to distribute a SIM AGENT simulation with different agents being simulated by different federates. We outline the changes necessary to the SIM AGENT toolkit to allow integration with ...

Location-based services (henceforth referred to as LBS) have emerged as an important component of mcommerce strategy. Location can determine consumers’ information needs and their product and service choices. We propose and evaluate different architectures for LBS considering that service provider allocates at different locations its information. Finally, we propose some design rules that consi...