The rapid development of information and communication technology (ICT) provides an opportunity to improve the quality of patient life. The availability of sustainable telecardiology system in Malaysia is essential to overcome shortage of cardiology services in rural area. This paper elaborates the framework including requirements of telecardiology technology to meet the current condition of te...

A firm’s announcement that it intends to restructure based on tracking stock is usually associated with a positive stock price reaction, at least in the short run. Typically, this reaction is attributed to expected reductions in a diversification discount, through reduced agency costs or information asymmetries. We reinvestigate this latter hypothesis by focusing on the liquidity provided by ma...

We consider a model for network platform competition between the current “Best Effort” (BE) network and a hypothetical “Next Generation Network” (NGN). We suppose there are indirect network externalities between content providers (CPs) and users of each platform. Moreover, we suppose that NGN users can access BE content, thus there is a cross-platform, indirect network externality. This feature...

We built an agent-based model of political party competition in order to explore the effect of the decrease in the number of relevant political issues on the number of political parties and the corresponding voter shares. We find that, when the space experiences a political shock and suddenly reduces in the number of dimensions, the number of political parties declines. We also observe that, af...

Lung cancer is still the leading cause of death among all cancers. During the last 15 years, pharmacogenomics of lung cancer have established targeted therapy with tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) for epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) positive patients in adenocarcinoma or mixed adenosquamus lung cancer patients. However; while novel drugs are released in the market, at the same time nov...

Regulatory policy in telecommunications is desperately in need of mid-level theory. There is widespread consensus that regulators should try to promote competition. There is also bitter contention about what this implies for particular industry battles. For example, an industry observer declared, “Competition should be the policy. And code that enables competition should be the rule.” He then w...

Software development’s organizational design is often characterized by geographical dispersion and virtual team work. In this setup, communication is an essential task. We study this task by analyzing the association between communication structure and efficiency of the issue tracking process. This key process within software development is primarily carried out digitally and thus provides a su...

People often use social media to discuss opinions, including political ones. We refer to relevant topics in these discussions as political issues, and the alternate stands towards these topics as political positions. We present a Political Issue Extraction (PIE) model that is capable of discovering political issues and positions from an unlabeled dataset of tweets. A strength of this model is t...

We address the problem of constructing an assurance case and propose an approach to extract information from an issue tracking system that can be used to construct an assurance case. This approach takes advantage of information searching and data mining techniques to identify relevant information, which can also be used as materials for constructing an assurance case. This paper gives an overvi...

This paper presents a new scheme to implement an event-driven traffic ticketing system. The system consists of two modules, namely, (1) event detection module, (2) database management module to execute information retrieval and deliver traffic tickets. In this paper, the notable contribution is an automatic detection of traffic ticketing events from video footages and immediate notification of ...