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Information Network Services in Finland

The availability of user equipment with network connection and sophisticated information network services are the basis for realizing electronic commerce. National PTTs, private telematics companies, and government agencies are some of the main parties in establishing such a basis. Due to liberalization and deregulation of telecom markets in Europe they have now a variety of choices for new mar...

Patient perspectives on provision of drug information services in Japan.

Today pharmacists provide indispensable drug information to patients, however, few studies have examined the kind of information that patients want, or their satisfaction with pharmacists' advice. Therefore, we have examined a variety of factors, including individual patient characteristics, in order to identify ways to provide useful and appropriate drug information on an individual basis. In ...

Involuntary Information Leakage in Social Network Services

Disclosing personal information in online social network services is a double-edged sword. Information exposure is usually a plus, even a must, if people want to participate in social communities; however, leakage of personal information, especially one’s identity, may invite malicious attacks from the real world and cyberspace, such as stalking, reputation slander, personalized spamming and ph...

Distributed Information Services Supporting Collaborative Network Management

Information retrieval is one of the key processes in the management of collaborative networks (CNs). For large and complex networks manual processes need to be supported by automated retrieval systems. We study the characteristics of information retrieval systems and discuss their applicability in distributed, dynamical, heterogeneous environments, such as CNs. We developed a model of a distrib...

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