The aim of this paper is to present the software development techniques used to build the EIS Patterns development framework, which is a testbed for a series of techniques that aim at giving more flexibility to EIS in general. Some of these techniques are customizations or extensions of practices created by the agile software development movement, while others represent new proposals. This pape...

Electronic institutions (EIs) have been proposed as a means of regulating open agent societies. EIs define the rules of the game in agent societies by fixing what agents are permitted and forbidden to do and under what circumstances. And yet, there is the need for EIs to adapt their regulations to comply with their goals despite coping with varying populations of self-interested external agents...

Electronic institutions (EIs) have been proposed as a means of regulating open agent societies. EIs define the rules of the game in agent societies by fixing what agents are permitted and forbidden to do and under what circumstances. And yet, there is the need for EIs to adapt their regulations to comply with their goals despite coping with varying populations of self-interested agents. In this...

Correspondence: Takahiro Sato Department of Gastroenterology, Sapporo Kosei General hospital, Kita 3 higashi 8, Chuo-ku, Sapporo 060-0033, Japan Tel +81 11 261 5331 Fax +81 11 261 6040 Email taka.sato@ja-hokkaidoukouseiren. or.jp Background and aims: The study’s aim was to evaluate the efficacy of endoscopic injection sclerotherapy (EIS) compared with endoscopic band ligation (EBL) in treating ...

Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) is a powerful transient technique which enables an insight into the corrosion process not easily obtained by other predominantly DC techniques. However the EIS technique presents a large challenge both from a theoretical as well as an experimental point of view. Collecting accurate EIS raw data is not easy as EIS is plagues with errors not seen by th...

Introducing enterprise information systems (EIS) is usually associated with high costs. It is therefore crucial to understand those factors that determine or influence these costs. Existing cost analysis methods are difficult to apply. Particularly, these methods are unable to cope with the dynamic interactions of the many technological, organizational and project-driven cost factors, which spe...

OBJECTIVE To determine if electrical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) improves the diagnostic accuracy of colposcopy when used as an adjunct. DESIGN Prospective, comparative, multi-centre clinical study. SETTING Three colposcopy clinics: two in England and one in Ireland. POPULATION Women referred with abnormal cytology. METHODS In phase 1, EIS was assessed against colposcopic impression an...

dr Milan ZDRAVKOVIĆ, Laboratory for Intelligent Production Systems, University of Niš, Serbia, http://www.masfak.ni.ac.rs/milan.zdravkovic Email: [email protected] Prof. dr Hervé PANETTO, Research Centre for Automatic Control, University of Lorraine, CNRS. School of Engineering in Information Technology, France, http://www.panetto.fr/ Email: [email protected] Backgro...

Aeromonas hydrophila, an anaerobic gram-negative bacillus, can cause severe infections in immune-compromised patients. We present a 45-year-old cirrhotic man who suffered from hematemesis and received emergency endoscopic injection sclerotherapy (EIS) for gastric variceal bleeding. Twenty-one hours after EIS, painful swelling of the bilateral lower extremities and fever occurred. Severe soft-ti...

Enterprise Information Systems (EIS) can be classified into three generations, starting with the application-centric, moving on to the data-centric and then to contemporary thinking, which can be described as process-centric. The overall theme of CONFENIS 2011 was to re-conceptualize EIS. One way of re-conceptualizing is to start with a blank sheet and “think out of the box”. This topic was add...