Tourist recommendation systems have been growing over the last years, mainly because of the use of mobile devices to obtain user context. This work discuss some of the most relevant systems on the field and presents PSiS Mobile, which is a mobile recommendation and planning application designed to support a tourist during his vacations. It provides recommendations about points of interest to vi...

Research spanning 30 years has highlighted discharge planning as a complex area of practice. Discharge co-ordinators are part of the support provided to improve the patient's journey from acute to community settings. The aim of this study was to explore and describe the role of discharge co-ordinators in a healthcare setting. Using an exploratory descriptive research design a convenience sample...

In this paper, we describe ROSE (Routing Service), an application for mobile phones, which suggests the user events and locations and guides him to them, using the public transport system. It determines the best possible transport link and accompanies passengers throughout their entire journey. Further, it reacts in real time to delays in the public transport system and calculates alternative r...

Much of the focus of the research effort in path planning for mobile robots has centred on the problem of finding a path from a start location to a goal location, while minimising one or more parameters such as length of path, energy consumption or journey time. Most of the experimental results reported in the literature have centred on simulation results. Only a small subset of the reported re...

Palliative care is recommended for patients with end-stage heart failure with several recent, randomised trials showing improvements in symptoms and quality of life and more studies underway. Future care planning provides a framework for discussing a range of palliative care problems with patients and their families. This approach can be introduced at any time during the patient's journey of ca...

The Logistics Perspective: End-to-end journey case studies is part of the Department for Transportâs Towards a Sustainable Transport System (TaSTS) program. TaSTS was published in October 2007 and it sets out proposals for a new approach to strategic transport planning for the period beyond 2014 in light of the Eddington and Stern reports. The case studies are part of a wider body of work in re...

In this article I present a novel approach to integrated ground and air public transport journey planning, operating at continent scale. Flexible date search, prerequisite for long distance trips given their typical low and irregular service frequencies, is core functionality. The algorithm, best described as timed branch-and-bound (BBtime), is especially suited for irregular and poorly structu...