This paper considers the use of the stakeholder concept in the information systems literature and compares it with current concerns in the strategic management literature, where the concept originates. In information systems, the notion of stakeholder has been used in many different ways, which, however, tend to reflect a primarily descriptive or instrumental perspective. The paper reviews thes...

Accounts of human mental representation typically posit either the sole existence of structured (i.e., totally symbolic) representations, or the sole existence of holistic (i.e., totally sub-symbolic, or connectionist) representations. We argue that systems that implement structured representations are not necessarily as different form those that represent holistic representations as they appea...

Twig pattern matching plays a crucial role in xml query processing. In order to reduce the processing time, some existing holistic onephase twig pattern matching algorithms (e.g., HolisticTwigStack [3], TwigFast [5], etc) use the core function getNext of TwigStack [2] to effectively and efficiently filter out the useless elements. However, using getNext as a filter may incur other redundant com...

This paper reports some experiments which assess the potential use of a footstep biometric verification system for a smart home environment. We present a semi-automatic capture system and report results on a database with independent development and evaluation datasets comprised of more than 3500 footsteps collected from 55 persons. We present an optimisation of geometric and holistic feature e...

BACKGROUND There is a growing recognition that many public health issues are complex and can be best understood by examining the relationship between human health and the health of the ecosystems in which people live. Two approaches, One Health and Ecosystem Approaches to Health (EcoHealth), can help us to better understand these intricate and complex connections, and appear to hold great promi...