Integrated care generally refers to care for the elderly. Fragmentation in health and social care services creates the need to develop coordinated activities and cooperative networks in order to achieve a more cohesive set of services for the elderly. This is seen as being highly desirable by care providers, politicians, care users and financiers, mainly for reasons of quality and efficiency. H...

Current technology has disappointed many users of cooperative learning environments by its complexity and only slow and tough adaptability to specific users’ requirements. In order to compensate for these deficiencies, we use Action Research to guide us in a process in which we co-develop and improve open source, Web service based modules that directly and intuitively support learning, cooperat...

The benefits of open and cooperative systems, popular because of the functionality they offer for sharing resources free of charge, are only achievable if there is an incentive to cooperate, and if participants are able to make effective decisions about the cooperations in which they participate. In this context, the key contribution of this paper is a framework for non-monetary cooperations am...

By applying a proxy mechanism widely used in WWW systems to video streaming systems, low-delay and high-quality video distribution can be accomplished without imposing extra load on the system. The video streaming system proposed in this paper consists of a video server and multiple proxy servers. In our mechanism, proxies communicate with each other and retrieve missing video data from an appr...

As the amount of information and communication increases dramatically new working environments must provide efficient mechanisms to maximize the benefits of these developments. In this paper a telecooperation environment based on agent technology is proposed, which can be used as an information and collaboration infrastructure for virtual enterprises and other cooperative environments. The avai...

CPS (Cyber Physical Systems) is an approach often adopted for improving real-world activities by utilizing data. It also can be used to improve customer experiences in service applications analyzing behavior, captured sensing devices and supporting utilization of that data the providers, system. In developing such systems, no method has been established systematically evaluate impact individual...

A traveling wave based communication mechanism for wireless sensor networks, " A proxy caching system for MPEG-4 video streaming with a quality adaptation mechanism, " WSEAS Transactions on Quality-aware cooperative proxy caching for video streaming services, " submitted to and evaluation of proxy caching system for MPEG-4 video streaming with quality adjustment mechanism, " in Proceedings of t...