Society does not have universal standards or guidelines to help embed human norms or moral values into autonomous intelligent systems (AIS) today. But as these systems grow to have increasing autonomy to make decisions and manipulate their environment, it is essential they be designed to adopt, learn, and follow the norms and values of the community they serve, and to communicate and explain th...

We claim that distributed object-oriented systems must provide a higher level of abstraction to their users, than usually provided. Especially, it is necessary to provide application-oriented, intelligent aggregates of objects with transparent distribution of their elements. Beside that, it seems to be not only reasonable, but also relatively easy to connect persistence with distribution. A sys...

In this paper we would like to present and describe SIE, a transparent, intelligent Web proxy framework. Its aim is to provide efficient and robust platform for implementing various ideas in broad area of Web Mining. It enables the programmer to easily and quickly write modules that improve pages on that site according to personal characteristics of the particular user. SIE provides many featur...

Objectives: To set the scientific context and then suggest principles for an evidence-based approach to secondary uses of clinical data, covering both evaluation of the secondary uses of data and evaluation of health systems and services based upon secondary uses of data. Method: Working Group review of selected literature and policy approaches. Results: We present important considerations in t...

Climate politics is increasingly conducted by, through and for markets. Business and financial actors have become central actors in the construction and management of an elaborate and increasingly intermeshed system of climate governance. Central to these are a series of markets, constructed to facilitate investment in carbon abatement and to create incentives for states and firms to limit thei...

Distributed processing across a networked environment suffers from unpredictable behavior of speedup due to heterogeneous nature of the hardware and software in the remote machines. It is challenging to get a better performance from a distributed system by distributing task in an intelligent manner such that the heterogeneous nature of the system do not have any effect on the speedup ratio. Thi...

background and objectives: the iranian ministry of health and medical education has introduced clinical gov­ernance as the accepted model of hospital healthcare improvement. subsequently, a growing movement for implementing clinical governance in health facilities has emerged. this study aimed to explore the opinions of the relevant experts and executives to provide insight into current challen...

Distributed processing across a networked environment suffers from unpredictable behavior of speedup due to heterogeneous nature of the hardware and software in the remote machines. It is challenging to get a better performance from a distributed system by distributing task in an intelligent manner such that the heterogeneous nature of the system do not have any effect on the speedup ratio. Thi...

A networked environment suffers from unpredictable speedup behavior during distributed processing due to heterogeneous nature of the hardware and software in the remote machines. It is challenging to get better performance from a distributed system by distributing task in an intelligent manner such that the heterogeneous nature of the system do not have any effect on the speedup ratio. This pap...

A debate on Internet governance for health, or "eHealth governance", is emerging with the impending award of a new dot-health (.health) generic top-level domain name (gTLD) along with a host of other health-related domains. This development is critical as it will shape the future of the health Internet, allowing largely unrestricted use of .health second-level domain names by future registrants...