The virtual community concept, when supported by adequate ICT and organizational infrastructures, represents a very promising approach for a new philosophy in elderly care and active aging. A mobile agents based approach to implement services to support a Time Bank virtual community in elderly care is introduced and a prototype system developed in the context of the TeleCARE project is presented.

The virtual team is an increasingly common strategic work unit of many organizations. The virtual team, via various computer-based media (e.g. email, groupware) and noncomputer-based media (e.g. telephone), can interact and collaborate though separated by distance and time. One approach to their study is determining whether factors that drive conventional team performance also exist in the virt...

As virtual teams become more and more important in organizations, understanding how to improve virtual team outcomes is vital to project success. This study examines how virtual teams interacting via videoconferencing systems may enhance their team outcomes in a Chinese cultural context. The results reveal that traditional face-to-face interaction outperformed videoconferencing teams when both ...

Many enterprises today struggle with the challenge of using the full potential of ICT for a rapid creation of global customer focused, efficient and effective virtual enterprises. This paper presents a Virtual Enterprise Reference Architecture (based on the draft international standard GERAM) to serve as a common integrating basis for these efforts, recognising the global challenge for common u...

In order to be competitive enterprises continuously implement ICT strategies & architectures to improve manufacture, research, products quality, sales, services and costs control. All large enterprises have a local area network, a virtual private network, an Intranet and Internet, servers and workstations for operations, administration and management working together for the same objective: pro...

The design and development of invisible, easy to use and affordable ICT infrastructures is a key prerequisite for the effective large-scale implantation of the collaborative networks organizations such as virtual organizations, professional virtual communities, e-science communities, etc. This paper introduces an overview of the main classes of infrastructures required by different types of vir...

The lack of data regarding Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector alumni data is a known problem in several countries including Egypt. It is not clear what entry and senior jobs are occupied by alumni and which countries are attract them. This affects the planning, design and execution of both the ICT sector and the Education sector. In this research, a joint team is formulated ...

With the rapid development and extensive application of information technologies, use of virtual teams to encourage collaboration with students from other campuses is receiving increasing attention from educators. Prior research has demonstrated that it is difficult for the virtual team to achieve the same performance as the traditional face-to-face team. We wanted to study whether the use of a...

This paper examines the effects of composition, size and structure of virtual networks on the diffusion of information. The research extends the Axelrod cultural model (ACM), an established theory rooted in political science research, to explain information dissemination among social actors in ICT-enabled virtual networks (Axelrod 1997). The investigation is focused on the impact of network str...

We present the first version of our Virtual Neighbor, who can talk with users about people employed in the same institution. The Virtual Neighbor can discuss information about employees in a medium sized company or institute with users. The system acquires information from three sources: a personnel directory database, public web pages, and through dialogue interaction. Users can interact throu...