The ability to deal with the incompatibilities of service requesters and providers is a critical factor for achieving interoperability in dynamic open environments. We focus on the problem of process mediation of the semantically annotated process models of the service requester and service provider. We propose an Abstract Process Mediation Framework (APMF) identifying the key functional areas ...

Most research to date has approached employee empowerment as an individual-level phenomenon. In this study we proposed a work-unit-level construct, empowerment climate, and tested a multiple-level model integrating macro and micro approaches to empowerment. Empowerment climate was shown to be empirically distinct from psychological empowerment and positively related to manager ratings of work-u...

Purpose – System usage and user satisfaction are widely accepted and used as surrogate measures of IS success. Past studies attempted to explore the relationship between system usage and user satisfaction but findings are mixed, inconclusive and misleading. The main objective of this research is to better understand and explain the nature and strength of the relationship between system usage an...

The AURORA mediator system employs a novel 2-tier, plug-and-play mediation model that is designed to facilitate access to a large number of heterogeneous data sources. This paper describes AURORA's mediation model and a suite of techniques used by a specific AURORA mediator, AURORA-RH. This suite includes a mediation methodology provided via an interactive mediator author's toolkit (MAT), a med...

In March 2011 the Italian Government introduced mandatory pre-trial mediation of civil and commercial cases. The Italian mediation model is capable of sensibly speed-up the settlement of disputes but, on the other end, citizens need to be sensitized to the benefits of mediation and must be trained on how mediation works and how to access it. The purpose of this paper is to describe a learning m...

INTRODUCTION Information mediation is a research area that deals with integrating information from different, usually heterogeneous, information sources, including regular databases, XML source, record files, email systems, etc. The software that handles or masks data heterogeneity from end users is called a mediator. ABSTRACT Information mediation is one of the major approaches to solve intero...

Disputed child custody is a significant life stressor for both adults and children. Recent efforts have been made to develop a model for family mediation and subsequent clinical strategies that can attempt to address the stressors involved in divorce and perhaps resolve, through mediation, the posttrauma stress experienced by both spouses and children. Reviewed is the literature on the impact o...

Mediation models are used to describe the mechanism(s) by which one variable influences another. These models can be useful in developmental research to explicate the relationship between variables, developmental processes, or combinations of variables and processes. In this article we describe aspects of mediation effects specific to developmental research. We focus on three central issues in ...

We develop a 2-tier, plug-and-play mediation model for accessing a large number of heterogeneous data sources. This model deenes a divide-and-conquer approach towards information integration. It is more suitable for applications such as electronic commerce than existing models. We also develop algebras that manipulate heterogeneous data, the mediation enabling algebras, that provide new techniq...