Andreas Kindt born in 1964, is CIO of Loyalty Partner GmbH and CEO of Loyalty Partner Solutions GmbH. He has been a member of the T-Home Board of Management, responsible for IT from June 2006 to September 2008. He was a Member of the Board of Management of T-Online International AG, responsible for Technology, from January 2002 to June 2006. Peter Bruhn ([email protected]) born in 1972, has be...

Modern implementations of DBMS software are intended to take advantage of high core counts that are becoming common in high-end servers. However, we have observed that several database platforms, including MySQL, Shore-MT, and a commercial system, exhibit throughput collapse as load increases into over-saturation (where there are more request threads than cores), even for a workload with little...

The healthcare model is shifting from a paternalistic towards a more inclusive and participative approach, such as shared decision making (SDM). SDM considers patients as autonomous and responsible agents. SDM is a therapeutic approach where healthcare providers and patients share the best evidence available to make a decision according to the values and preferences of the patient. Decision aid...

In this paper, a novel mutual authentication and key exchange protocol based on self-certified mechanism is proposed for roaming services in the global mobility network (GLOMONET). The main new features of the proposed protocol include identity anonymity, one-time session key renewal, and distributed security management scheme. Identity anonymity protects location privacy of mobile users in the...

BACKGROUND Striking tales of people judged, disrespected, or abused in reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health (RMNCAH) services are commonly exchanged among friends and families throughout the world while remaining sorely under-addressed in global health. Disrespect and abuse of individuals and providers in health services across the RMNCAH continuum must be stopped throu...