Software agents, thanks to their autonomy in carrying out tasks, are fruitfully exploited in large-scale distributed environments, such as the Internet. In such a scenario, interactions among agents are an issue that must be faced in an appropriate way. This paper proposes an interaction model based on roles, being a role a set of capabilities and an expected behavior. Modeling interactions by ...

Much has been written about the economic and environmental performance of U.S. emissions trading programs for “acid rain” (sulfur dioxide) and nitrogen oxides. Less explored have been the unique roles and interactions of environmental regulators and the companies they regulate. I first examine how these roles change the way that regulators and companies operate within their own organizations an...

recent advances in wireless and mobile communications infrastructure are enabling governments to deliver and manage services to citizen efficiently and economically. mobile government provides this ability to governments. this paper presents the ggovernance approach in effective development of mobile government. the objective is reviews(identify and ranking) of public service concept (included:...

nowadays employees in public service organizations have important roles in realizing the goals of organizations and particularly their service quality. one type of organizations in which service quality has very important role, are hospitals which are in contact with a large number of patients and their relatives. the previous researches have shown that organizations service quality is affected...

background: the negative attitudes and behaviors of iranian nursing students impede learning and threaten their progression and retention in nursing programs. the need to understand students’ perception and experiences of nursing provide knowledge about effectiveness of nursing education program as well as their professional identity. the purpose of this study was to discover experiences of nur...

This study provides some empirical insight into managerial roles of chief information officer (CIO) based on Mintzberg's classic managerial role model and CSC's information systems (IS) leadership roles. A survey was conducted in Norway to investigate potential predictors of leadership roles. Statistical results indicate that CIOs find the role of entrepreneur most important, and this role has ...

A high level conceptual model is presented of factors hypothesized to be key determinants of the effectiveness of decision making in large scale disasters, grounded in the literature on disaster management. ICT robustness (including the use of social media) sensemaking, and the effectiveness of decision making processes by the multi-organizational Partially Distributed Teams that must cooperate...

over the past decade, there have been several studies showing autobiographical memory retrieval and problem‑solving deficits in depressed population. the present study aimed to first to examine the roles of autobiographical memory specificity and problemsolving effectiveness in iranian depressed people with or without suicide ideation and secondly, to test the correlations between autobiographi...