The challenge of mobilizing knowledge to improve patient care, population health and ensure effective use of resources is an enduring one in healthcare systems across the world. This commentary reflects on an earlier paper by Ferlie and colleagues that proposes the resource-based view (RBV) of the firm as a useful theoretical lens through which to study knowledge mobilization in healthcare. Spe...

This thesis presents a multi-agent based architecture and implementation to realising ambient intelligence. The architecture separates the abilities of an ambient intelligent system into three main areas: the ability to perceive the world which the system inhabits, the ability to reason about the state of the world by being context aware, and the ability to behave intelligently in occurring sit...

Context-aware applications realise the vision of ubiquitous computing by utilising information gathered from their environment to automatically adapt behaviour. To support the development of such applications, researchers have developed infrastructures, architectures, middlewares, and toolkits. This paper presents a taxonomy based on a review of these support infrastructures for context-aware c...

The application logic of many current context-aware systems, that is, which action to perform in response to sensor events, is hard coded and not modifiable by the user. Hard-coded application logic makes the system difficult to personalize, while the invisibility and the unmodifiability of the application logic make it difficult for the user to get a common understanding about the system behav...

This paper describes how spatial description selection can be tied to discourse and spatial context to improve text coherence in a natural language generation domain. The paper argues that, given coherence relations and discourse goals, the selection of spatial descriptions which reflect the hearer’s spatial expectations and echo the intended coherence relation can improve text coherence and th...

The widespread diffusion of wireless-enabled portable devices creates novel opportunities for users to share resources anywhere and anytime, but makes access control a crucial issue. User/device mobility and heterogeneity, together with network topology and conditions variability, complicate access control and call for novel solutions to dynamically adapt access decisions to the different opera...

Come, let us go down and there make such a babble of their language that they will not understand another's speech. { Genesis 11:7 With the advent of faster computers, the notion of doing machine translation from a huge stored database of translation examples is no longer unreasonable. This paper describes an attempt to merge the Example-Based Machine Translation (EBMT) approach with psycholing...

We will describe context-aware systems that are used as components of intelligent environment and manage services on behalf of the user. We will present an agent-based architecture, Genie of the Net, for context-aware systems. We will also discuss the need for knowledge representations. Furthermore, we will present information management as our primary application area and discuss the applicati...

Although the reuse of software entities has matured in recent years, it has not become standard practice yet, since reusing componentbased or service-oriented architectures requires the selection, composition, adaptation and evolution of prefabricated software parts. Recent research approaches have tackled independently the discovery, composition, adaptation or monitoring processes. We present ...