Background: Participation in peer social groups could be used in health promotion programs for the elderly. The current study investigates the effectiveness of participation in a peer social support network intervention on the self-management of the elderly with type 2 diabetes.  Methods: This research is a quasi-experimental study with a pre-test-pos-ttest design with a control group conducte...

In this paper we describe a web-based decision support system for manufacturing scheduling based on web services. This system follows a P2P architecture to enable a more decentralized and global manufacturing scheduling environment. The system is structured around a classification notation for scheduling problems. The peers in the network hold methods for solving problems. These methods are sel...

Context Healthcare professionals routinely recommend peer support for parents of children with long-term and disabling conditions. Peer support comprises of parent groups and one-to-one parent support in the absence of a healthcare professional or facilitator. Unlike peer support for patients, the effectiveness of peer support for parents has rarely been investigated. Shilling and colleagues un...

Many last-mile access technologies exist, including cable, DSL (digital subscriber line), powerline (the world’s largest infrastructure), free-space optics, and broadcast satellite (which is attractive for both urban and rural areas, even isolated areas not serviceable by terrestrial methods). Unfortunately, these technologies represent a significant bottleneck between a highspeed residential n...

Building on previous work of the OASIS group at SICS, this paper presents a generic peer-to-peer system for the sView personal service platform. The sView platform provides each user with a personal service briefcase from which services may be reached using a variety of devices and interfaces. With the peer-to-peer system, called Briefcase Connectivity, we leverage the community of all sView us...