Lone L. Thomsen Aalborg University (Denmark) Workshop Background and Goals It is the aim of this workshop to stimulate the exchange of ideas/experiences of practitioners, researchers, and engineers working in the area of validating/verifying software for enterprise information systems (EIS). We will welcome both practical and theoretical papers, including case studies, from all areas related to...

Infomaster is a virtual information system that allows users to access a variety of heterogeneous, distributed information from multiple perspectives. Infomaster accesses information stored in databases or knowledge bases using Agent Communication Language (ACL), a combination of KQML, KIF, and Ontologies. Facilitators are used decompose, route, and translate requests and assemble, route, and t...

Statistics and information are considered the most important source of power in organizations and the source for all managerial activities. If correct and comprehensive information are readily at hand, incorrect decisions will be reduced to a minimum. The purpose of this study is to review the effects of hospital information system in regards to effectiveness of decisions made by managers. The ...

background and purpose: respecting confidentiality of documents and medical information about individuals, as one of the most important issues in medicine, guarantees patients' trust in the health system. therefore, this study is an attemp to design a valid and reliable tool to assess knowledge and attitudes of medical students about  the principles of  confidentiality and disclosure of patient...

Knowledge modeling perspectives on knowledge acquisition suggest that it is reasonable to analyze knowledge bases as collections of models. This paper focuses on those parts of the knowledge base that model the practical reasoning processes of human experts, and asks what properties those models might be expected to have. It surveys the general notion of a model and its connotations in informat...

Knowledge engineering, knowledge management and conceptual modelling are concerned with representing knowledge of business and organizational domains. These research areas use ontologies for knowledge representation. Ontologies are understood either in the philosophical sense as firm metaphysical commitments or in the looser sense of dictionaries or taxonomies. This paper critically examines th...