On 10 January 1979 we are holding a meeting at BBN in Cambridge, MA, starting at 0930, to discuss Message Service support on the ARPANET. The purpose of the meeting is to provide a basis for any standardization of efforts which may be necessary. We will take stock of the various message services currently available on the ARPANET, discuss problems which have been encountered between different m...

Effective learning support in organizations requires a flexible and personalized toolset that brings together the individual and the organizational perspective on learning. Such toolsets need a service-oriented infrastructure of reusable knowledge and learning services as an enabler. This contribution focuses on conceptual foundations for such an infrastructure as it is being developed within t...

Currently, visually challenged people are not able to use computers on their own mainly because keyboards are not user-friendly to them. With advancement in technology, these people find themselves technologically more challenged. This is true especially in the case of social networking, which these people cannot do without external help. Voice-Mail architecture helps blind people to access e-m...

PURPOSE This study compared the response time, response rate, and cost of two types of survey administration techniques: e-mail/web-based versus conventional postal mail. The main aim of the survey was to collect descriptive information on the existence of Acute Care for Elders units and their characteristics by surveying geriatric division chiefs. DESIGN AND METHODS Two randomized cohorts of...

In today’s world, e-mail has become one of the most important means of communication in business and private lives due to its efficiency. However, the problems start as soon as mail volumes go beyond the scope of human information processing capabilities. Firstly, time does not allow for leaving certain messages unanswered for a long time, and in certain cases, for reading all messages. Secondl...

Open source software is becoming increasingly prominent and the economic structure of open source development is changing. In recent years, firms motivated by revenues from software services markets have become the primary contributors to open source development. In this paper we study the role of services in open source software development and explore the choice between open source and propri...

Turning Web services into Semantic Web Services (SWS) can be prohibitively expensive for large repositories. In such cases collecting community descriptions in forms of structured tags can be a more affordable approach to describe Web services. However, little is understood about how tagging impacts performance of retrieval. There are neither real structured tagging systems for Web services, no...

Communication technology is currently seeing rapid growth, characterized by new access networks, end-devices and an ever growing user-community. However, there is a lack of integration between the di erent services: a user may have a cell-phone, a pager, a regular phone, a laptop, an e-mail account, and so on. But she has little control over managing communication services in a personalized, un...

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