The regular general practitioner scheme was introduced in Norway in 2001. A patient list system in combination with a partial per capita financing system for primary physician services was then introduced. The focus of this research was to study how the patient list system influences patients' accessibility to primary physicians, and how the system influences primary physicians' service product...

An approximation to the delay distribution for a multitrunk system with Poisson input, general holdi~g time distribution, and FlFO or random order of service is described. The results are compared with those of an exact analysis of the case of random service and 2-stage Erlangian holding time distribution. LIST OF SYMBOLS

Location-to-Service Translation (LoST) maps service identifiers and location information to service contact URIs. If a LoST client wants to discover available services for a particular location, it will perform a query to the LoST server. However, the LoST server, in its response, does not provide context information; that is, it does not provide any additional informat...