In this paper we develop a resource planning and allocation model for a mental-health community-support system. The intent of the model is to provide a tool to system managers and planners to address the relevant tradeoffs with regard to resource planning and allocation. More and more, mental health care is being delivered by a variety of community-based service agencies instead of total instit...

This paper examines the determinants of family planning service use and the barriers in accessing family planning services among urban poor women in Pakistan. Data were collected from a household survey of 5338 married women of reproductive age (15-45) from slum areas of six cities. The use of family planning services by women in urban slums is strongly linked to individual and household socioe...

BACKGROUND Decision Analytic Models (DAMs) are established means of evidence-synthesis to differentiate between health interventions. They have mainly been used to inform clinical decisions and health technology assessment at the national level, yet could also inform local health service planning. For this, a DAM must take into account the needs of the local population, but also the needs of th...

The success of Web services in business relies on the discovery of Web services satisfying the needs of the service requester. In this paper we discuss the use of data mining in the service discovery process. We recommend a set of applications that can leverage problems concerned with the planning, development and maintenance of Web services.

Service oriented architectures (SOA) herald a new generation of application systems. Whereas current systems were to be chosen and operated as self-contained systems of individual vendors, service oriented architectures allow for integrating application functionality from different sources internal or external to a company according to individual needs within a specific context. Vendors of ERP ...