In this 20th issue of the International Journal of Information Technology and the Systems Approach (IJITSA), we report four high-quality research papers. The third and fourth papers were accepted as part of the special issue on “Computing Challenges on IoT and Pervasive Systems”, co-edited by Luiz A. Steffenel, at the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France, and Manuele Kirsch Pinheiro, a...

The syntactic relationships between words allow a communicator to express a virtually endless array of thoughts by a finite set of elements. The co-occurrence of words in a sentence reflects the syntactic dependency between words, and can be represented as a directed graph. In this account we compiled the grammar dependency networks of 86 texts from 11 well known English authors. In an analysis...

s of Articles Authored or Coauthored by Permanente Clinicians lack of therapeutic response to medication were also associated with patients’ discontinuing therapy. CONCLUSIONS: Discrepancies exist between instructions that physicians report they communicate to patients and what patients remember being told. Explicit instructions about expected duration of therapy and discussions about medicatio...

Multi-authoring is currently a common practice in the field of contemporary storytelling but producing consistent stories that share a common narrative space when multiple authors are involved is not a trivial task. Inconsistencies, which are not always well-received by readers are sometimes expensive to fix. In this work we attempt to improve the consistency of stories and narrative spaces by ...

Following in the footsteps of the renowned report “Control in an Information Rich World,” Report of the Panel on “Future Directions in Control, Dynamics, and Systems” chaired by Richard Murray (2002), this paper aims to demonstrate that Systems & Control is at the heart of the Information and Communication Technologies to most application domains . As such, Systems & Control should be acknowled...

This paper discusses the outcomes of a research carried out in collaboration with the BT Mobility Research Centre and the National Institute of Design in India, aimed of understanding appropriate applications for the use of mobile phones as leisure multimedia devices for nomadic users such as commuters and travellers. This work intended to go beyond the use of mobile devices to broadcast of TV ...