The Internet today is a highly dynamic environment which frequently requires secure communication between peers that do not have a direct trust relationship. Current solutions for establishing trust often require static and application-specific Public Key Infrastructures (PKIs). This paper presents trusted directory services as a key infrastructural technology for setting up secure Internet con...

Internal and external information and communication processes at enterprises across almost every industry sector have been increasingly supported by electronic information technologies. The fundamental advantages of such technologies insure that this trend will continue in the future. The constant development of technology in the accompanying Net Economy has had a significant influence on vario...

Th e article focuses on trust/mistrust relations, strategies of cooperation, and emerging confl icts in the period of establishing capitalist reforms in Bulgaria aft er 1989. In this frame, trust building, as a key challenge for a successful transformation process, is analysed as a premise for cooperation and social cohesion in the process of reforming governance, establishing local institution...

OBJECTIVE E-health may enable the empowerment process for patients, particularly the chronically ill. However, e-health is not always designed with the requirements of patient empowerment in mind. Drawing on evidence-based e-health studies, we propose directions for best practices to develop e-health that promotes patient empowerment. METHODS The concept of patient empowerment in the Dutch se...

E-Business has now become a buzzword. Businesses and organizations are paying more attention on resolving and implementing e-Business (EB) issues and solutions. Ad-hoc EB implementations conducted by organizations have in fact different levels or scopes, but they are all called e-Business achievement. Based on the concepts of capability and maturity from CMM, this paper proposes process orienta...

1 to endorse e-health as a way to strengthen health systems. In defining e-health as " the cost-effective and secure use of information and communication technologies in support of health and health-related fields " , the resolution offered a definition that was comprehensive and generic, yet specific enough for researchers wishing to evaluate the impact of e-health to know what to evaluate. Sp...

Compared to offline shopping, the online shopping experience may be viewed as lacking human warmth and sociability as it is more impersonal, anonymous, automated and generally devoid of face-toface interactions. Thus, understanding how to create customer loyalty in online environments (e-Loyalty) is a complex process. In this paper a model for e-Loyalty is proposed and used to examine how varie...

Latin America is facing a rapid increase in internet use along with fast growing computer sales. Penetration with electronic equipment is in some countries approaching the level of industrialized countries. There is an evident need to resolve the management of “end-of-life” computers and other electronic equipment. Several studies in Latin America assessed the increasing e-waste quantities and ...

Disjoint paths have applications in establishing bottleneck-free communication between processors in a network. The problem of finding minimum delay disjoint paths in a network directly reduces to the problem of finding the minimal disjoint paths in the graph which models the network. Previous results for this problem on chordal graphs were an O(| V | | E |) algorithm for 2 edge disjoint paths ...