Editor's Choice Offered as a Service

Science as a Service [Guest editors' introduction]

Service Provider Revenue Dependence on Offered Number of Service Classes

In this paper possible applications of responsive pricing scheme and Stackelberg game for pricing telecommunication services with service provider as a leader and users acting as followers are analyzed. We have classified users according to an elasticity criterion into inelastic, partially elastic and elastic users. Their preferences are modelled through utility functions, which describe users’...

Clinical effectiveness of cancer screening biomarker tests offered as self-pay health service: a systematic review.

BACKGROUND Biomarker tests are increasingly being offered by laboratories and clinicians as self-pay health services to screen asymptomatic individuals; however, sufficient evidence may not be available to support this practice. We investigated the benefit-harm tradeoffs associated with 11 biomarkers currently offered in Germany as self-pay tests to screen for cancer. METHODS We systematicall...

Welcome message for the Special issue on: IoT-as-a- Service from the Editors-in-Chief

Received on 01 February 2015, published on 23 February 2015 Copyright © 2015 Mandler and Carrera. licensed to ICST. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unlimited use, distribution and reproduction in any medium so long as the original work is properly cited. doi: 10.41...

Dialogue Systems as Proof Editors

This paper shows how a dialogue system for information-seeking dialogues can be implemented in a type-theory-based syntax editor, originally developed for editing mathematical proofs. The implementation gives a simple logical metatheory to such dialogue systems and also suggests new functions to them, e.g. a local undo operation. The method developed provides a logically based declarative way o...