It is expected that the next generation of smart card will be more intelligent, more interactive and more interoperable. We call these the 3i requirements. A smart card wallet system for meeting these 3i requirements is presented. A novel objectoriented framework is proposed, such that everything is stored in the smart card wallet as an object and the extensible markup language (XML) is employe...

A framework can be viewed as a design schema from which application systems derive. Application systems of a framework are called instantiations of the framework and collectively form a product family. The article describes the development of a web-based time booking framework. The development consists of three main stages: meta level design, framework level design and application instantiation...

Kenwright M, Marks IM. Improving first attendance for cognitive behaviour therapy by a partial booking appointment method: two randomised controlled trials. J Ment Health 2003;12:385–92. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

A critical analysis of the events recorded at the first antenatal visits in a city where all pregnant women are seen by specialist obstetricians for booking for antenatal care and confinement showed that many women attended too late for optimal care. The selection of women for their risk of complications was not very effective, partly because of failure to take account of information that was a...

The effectiveness of antenatal risk prediction based on maternal characteristics at booking was examined among 5730 pregnant women booked in an integrated general practitioner obstetric unit over a seven-year period. High rates of transfer to consultant care were found especially for nulliparae. Apart from parity, maternal factors associated with transfer before labour were weight, smoking and ...

Transaction processing is of growing importance for mobile computing. Booking tickets, flight reservation, banking, ePayment, and booking holiday arrangements are just a few examples for mobile transactions. Due to temporarily disconnected situations the synchronisation and consistent transaction processing are key issues. Serializability is a too strong criteria for correctness when the semant...

The explosive development of Web 2.0 and online word-of-mouth (WOM) communications have facilitated the transaction of experience goods from offline to online. However, most of the online WOM merely consist of words which make it hard to convey the subtle feelings and experiences of consuming such products or services. In order to form more precise perceptions and reduce uncertainty, search eng...

Manufacturing providers aim not only for a revenue maximizing allocation of their limited production capacity but also for the establishment of long-term customer relations. Due to long-term contracts and strategic reference customers, users of traditional revenue management systems already account for varying worthiness of clients, and intuitively ignore or override booking control suggestions...

This paper presents a new approach for dynamically increasing the coverage of a Statistical Dialog Manager. A Stochastic Finite-State Transducer for dialog management is estimated using a dialog simulator. This corpusbased model can cover most typical user behavior; however, sometimes unexpected situations may arise. Whenever these situations occur, the Dialog Manager model has no information t...

In this paper we illustrate Tourpedia, which would be the DBpedia of tourism. Tourpedia contains more than half a million places, divided in four categories: accommodations, restaurants, points of interests and attractions. They are related to eight locations: Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Dubai, London, Paris, Rome and Tuscany, but new locations are continuously added. Information about places...