This book addresses the main issues, challenges, opportunities, and trends related to the cutting-edge fields of online health and medical study. This compilation disseminates the latest findings in this growing area of research in order to transform, both socially and technologically, the way...

Progress in ubiquitous computing, social networking, medical informatics and IT technologies has resulted in a new generation of healthcare systems. This book provides insight into the various trends, innovations, and organizational challenges of contemporary ubiquitous health and medical...

1. The application of virtual organization technology for eHealth / Ekaterina Kldiashvili -- 2. Grid technology / I. Aas -- 3. Health and health care grid services and delivery integrating eHealth and telemedicine / Thomas Clark -- 4. The Teams of Leaders (Tol) concept / Dag von Lubitz -- 5....

This title presents the development of DSS for managing agricultural and environmental systems, focusing on the exposition of innovative methodologies, from web-mobile systems to artificial intelligence and knowledge-based DSS, as well as their applications in every aspect from harvest planning...

Unites researchers and industry practitioners from different disciplines to share their domain-specific knowledge and contribute to a holistic introduction into the area of human-centered design for e-health applications.

Reviews existing literature in assistive technologies and provides suggestions and solutions for improving the quality of assisted living facilities and residences through the use of e-health systems and services.

"This book highlights the most influential organizational theories and their applications in Inter-Organizational Information Systems, providing theories that have been consistently tested and proven to be valid over time"--Provided by publisher.

"This book describes a holistic approach to monitoring, evaluating, and applying appropriate marketing strategies, and understanding the competition and its future implication on the business of a company"--Provided by publisher.

"This book is a comprehensive collection of research on the computational capabilities, prototypes and algorithms and their application to the areas of nursing, clinical care, public health, biomedical research and much more"--Provided by publisher.

Decision support fundamentals -- Mathematical preliminaries -- Preferences-based performance measurement models -- Elements of utility theory -- Elements of stochastic programming -- Stochastic utility evaluation -- A Preferences-based approach to subjective probability estimation --...