The architectural landscape of healthcare information systems is extremely diverse representing a collection of many different hardware and operating platforms as well as applications developed in a multitude of development environments and programming languages. The real struggle in healthcare information technology is the need to find means to expand the effective use of these existing system...

Within the United States (U.S.), one-third of those who use cannabis (the most commonly used illicit drug in the U.S.), exhibit cannabis use problems significant enough to warrant a diagnosis of cannabis use disorder (CUD; Compton, Grant, Colliver, Glantz, & Stinson, 2004). Data suggests that quitting cannabis is highly difficult (Copersino et al., 2006), yet, there is little empirical knowledg...

Supervisory control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems play a core role in a nation’s critical infrastructure, overseeing the monitoring and control of systems in electricity, gas supply, logistics services, banks and hospitals. SCADA systems were once separated from other networks and used proprietary communications protocols, hardware and software. Nowadays modern SCADA systems are increasi...

The Semantic Web is bound to be untrustworthy and inconsistent. In this paper, we present an initial approach for obtaining useful information in such an environment. In particular, we replace the question of whether an assertion is entailed by the entire Semantic Web with two other queries. The first asks if a specific statement is entailed given an identification of the trusted documents. The...

Ensuring that information within a website is findable is particularly important. This is because visitors that cannot find what they are looking for are likely to leave the site or become very frustrated and switch to a competing site. While findability has been touted as important in web design, we wonder to what degree measures of findability are correlated to usage. To this end, we have con...