Search services are now ubiquitously employed in searching for documents on the Internet and on enterprise intranets. Search services may exhibit different behavior depending on the type of information need, the quality of the search service, the ease of filtering results, the user’s domain knowledge and search experience. Users are thus faced with the selection of a search service in order to ...

This paper develops a model of electronic service adoption in the context of Internet securities trading. Customer acceptance is an important imperative for web-based service as it influences the service’s adoption. The two beliefs of the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness, have not fully explained users’ acceptance in the context of Internet secur...

Recent work towards a standard based, service oriented Grid represents the convergence of distributed computing technologies from e-Science and e-Commerce communities. A global service management system in such context is required to achieve efficient resource sharing and collaborative service provisioning. This paper presents VEGA system software, a novel grid platform that combines experience...

the death of the english national health service (nhs) has been pronounced many times over the years, but the time and cause of death and the murder weapon remains to be fully established. this article reviews some of these claims, and asks for clearer criteria and evidence to be presented.

introduction: patient satisfaction is crucial to the long-run success in health care center. with regard to the highest patients’ referral to the emergency department and the existing challenges due to the patient’s need to urgent care, we aimed to evaluate health care services quality in this unit to find out whether the patients have different expectations from health care providers and if th...

In [1] a web service called Projekt Tomo intended to ease the process of learning programming for teachers and students has been described. Since the service received a very warm welcome from teachers and students alike we decided to collect additional information on the students’ view of the service in order to improve it even further. In the paper we briefly present our web service and a deta...