The paper is devoted to solving the problem of assessing the quality of the medicalelectronic service. A variety of dimensions and factors of quality, methods and models applied indifferent scopes of activity for assessing quality of service is researched. The basic aspects,requirements and...

The paper is devoted to solving a problem of the development of the website of Russianmunicipal policlinics and provides a selection of a set of elements which should be posted on awebsite. Such elements are necessary to provide citizens with correct and ergonomic e-services.The insufficient...

Cloud Computing is a topic that has gained momentum in the last years. Current studies show that anincreasing number of companies is evaluating the promised advantages and considering making use ofcloud services. In this paper we investigate the phenomenon of cloud computing and its importance...

Eye-trackers have been used in the past to identify visual foci inimages, nd task-related image regions, or localize aective regions inimages. However, they have not been used for identifying specic ob-jects in images. In this paper, we investigate whether it is possibleto assign image regions...

We propose a new approach for mobile visualization andinteraction of temporal information by integrating supportfor time with today's most prevalent visualization of spatialinformation, the map. Our approach allows for an easy andprecise selection of the time that is of interest and...

Conventional security infrastructures in the Internet cannot be directlyadopted to ambient systems, especially if based on short-range communi-cation channels: Personal, mobile devices are used and the participants arepresent during communication, so privacy protection is a crucial issue....

This book gives an overview of the state of the art in five different approaches to social science simulation on the individual level. The volume contains microanalytical simulation models designed for policy implementation and evaluation, multilevel simulation methods designed for detecting...

The articles collected in this volume have two features in common: they wantto integrate economics, demography and geography, and they want to overcome the stationary approach in modelling in favour of a dynamic one. The book is subdivided into three parts, where Part I is focussing on economic...

A chaotic process with slow feed back : the case of business cycles / T(c)œnu Puu -- Nonlinear interactions in the economy / Erik Mosekilde, Jesper S. Thomsen, and John Sterman -- Fast and slow processes of economic evolution / (c)ke E. Andersson -- A stochastic model of technological evolution...