Today mobile phones are the most widespread devices in the world. The numbers of mobile phones today are, four times more than the number of PCs. This provides high potentials for providing some capabilities like data grid on mobile phones. Unfortunately, there is no suitable software system to provide this capability on mobile phones; however, we have enough hardware capabilities. All previous...

The Clinical Trials Network of the Society of Nuclear Medicine was formed to provide quality assurance of both imaging and radiopharmaceutical manufacturing in clinical trials. The intention is to register and qualify a large number (>200) of sites, both in the United States and internationally, to be able to do the positron emission tomography imaging part of clinical trials. Initially, the ty...

This article aims at proposing some elements for a grounded theor y of the network society. The network society is the social structure characteristic of the Information Age, as tentatively identiŽed by empirical, cross-cultural investigation. It permeates most societies in the world, in various cultural and institutional manifestations, as the industrial society characterized the social struct...

How markets emerge, function, and remain in existence (or are reproduced) are problems that economists have hardly addressed. One of the exceptions is Friedrich Hayek. Between the second half of the 1930s and the early 1960s he formulated a number of ideas about these topics. Historically, these were inspired by his very early work on cognitive psychology, which in the 1950s was one of the sour...

This paper reports on a project aimed at revitalizing small and old rural villages through establishing a network of bookshops, the BookTownNet. The project combined a research framework based on theories from information system research and regional economics in analyzing the development and diffusion of information and communication technology (ICT) to small, rural enterprises through that ne...

This year the minitrack explores a wide range of challenges associated with the creation and implementation of public policies and laws to support, facilitate, and promote e-government. The minitrack also addresses the problems of how egovernment policies impact and influence governance systems and public procurement changing legitimacy and power relations. The minitrack includes one session wi...

The article characterizes post-folklore as a cultural phenomenon of the network society and defines various aspects its functioning − sociocommunicative, psychological. research methodology consisted set basic approaches, principles methods scientific research. To achieve goal, general special was used, including logical analysis, problemchronological, generalization, synthesis, induction, anal...