Background: Delivering efficient healthcare within limited budgets requires an understanding of patient priorities. Designing services that are sensitive to patients’ preferences in the context of limited resources may require policy and decision-makers to choose between attributes. Aligning clinical practice and health policy with patient preferences will improve the effectiveness of health in...

XML itself does not support hypermedia, but the XLink standard has been defined to make XML usable for hypermedia. One of XLinks most interesting features is its support for external links and linkbases, which makes it possible to create links between resources without having to change the resources. In order to use these links, user agents must access linkbases and query them for relevant link...

This study contributes to the literature on supply chain coordination by coordinating the research and development (R&D) effort, retail price, and inventory decisions. It investigates a real case in the home appliance industry. The main purpose of this study is to examine the optimal values of R&D effort, pricing, and inventory decisions under decentralized and centralized structures. Then, a d...

While adaptation is widely recognized as valuable, adaptations in most existing systems are limited to changing execution parameters in a single software module or on a single host. Our position is that the true potential of adaptation can only be realized if support is provided for more general solutions, including adaptations that span multiple hosts and multiple system components, and algori...

In this article we propose the perspective of relationship as a conceptual approach to discipline sound design. Based on literature reviews and case studies, state that making design means designing relationships, even before sounds, include expression in current definitions discipline. Moreover, observe practices can be inscribed more than one relational perspective, thus widening scope possib...