The blackboard architecture has been an essentially informal construct from its inception. This has led to diierent, though essentially similar, interpretations of the original metaphor. In a recent book, the author presented a mathematical speciication of a blackboard system shell. The exercise was successful and suggested a method for developing blackboard systems with the aid of formal metho...

Introduction: Starting in 2008 an internet-based platform: Personal Control and Rehabilitation (PCR) has been developed for people with psychotic vulnerability and their formal and informal caregivers and was tested in two mental health institutions in The Netherlands. The Trimbos-institute and the Julius-Centrum evaluated the development, the implementation and the preliminary effects of PCR o...

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Within both economics and computer science, many authors have claimed that decentralized or market-based approaches to decision-making are superior in general to centralized approaches. The contrary claim has also been made. Unfortunately, these claims are often supported only by informal or anecdotal evidence. In order to assess these competing claims, we present a review of the literatures in...

Although high-intensity caregiving has been found to be associated with a greater prevalence of mental health problems, little is known about the specifics of this relationship. This study clarified the burden of informal caregivers quantitatively and provided policy implications for long-term care policies in countries with aging populations. Using data collected from a nationwide five-wave pa...

BACKGROUND This study explored the effects of an integrated care model for the frail elderly on informal caregivers' satisfaction with care and support services. METHODS A 62-item instrument was developed and deployed in an evaluative before/after study using a quasi-experimental design and enrolling a control group. The definitive study population (n=63) consisted mainly of female informal c...