Rapid creation of new services for telecommunications systems is hindered by the feature interaction problem. This is an important issue for development of IN services, not only because of interactions\namong IN services themselves but because of interactions of IN services with switch-based services and potential interactions with services not yet developed. Furthermore, the problem is fundamental to services creation; it is not restricted to IN services. Any platform for telecommunication services requires a method for dealing with the feature interaction problem. A number of approaches for managing feature interactions have been proposed. However, lack of structured ways to categorize feature interactions makes it difficult to determine if a particular approach has addressed some, if not all, classes of interactions. We describe and analyze a number of feature interactions by using two independent classification schemes. This paper is a step to achieving the goal of a coherent industry-wide collection of\nillustrative features and their interactions. The collection will helpconvey the scope of the feature interaction problem. It will also serve as a benchmark for determining the coverage of various approaches, and as a guideline for identifying potential interactions in software architectures and platforms.
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From the article: Globalization and technological innovation has led to an increasing competition between telecommunication service providers and has eroded traditional product- and service-based differentiation. One way to gain a competitive advantage is to create distinctiveness by improving customer experience in such a manner that it leads to higher customer satisfaction and loyalty. One of the drivers to improve the customer experience is the service interface. To improve this service interface, organizations must get insight into their customer interaction process. The amount of data about customers and the service provider processes is increasing and becoming more readily available for analysis. Process mining is a technique to provide insight into these processes. In this paper, a framework is presented to improve the customer satisfaction by alignment of the business service delivery process and the customer experience by applying process mining.
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World globalisation drives companies to undertake international expansion with the aim of retaining or growing their businesses. When companies globalize, managers encounter new challenges in making international marketing strategy (IMS) decisions, which are influenced by perceived cultural and business distance between their home- and foreign country. Telkom Indonesia International (Telin) was formed by Telkom Indonesia (i.e. the state-owned company in the telecommunication industry in Indonesia) to engage in international business within a global market. The central question in this study is to what extent do managers’ perceived cultural and business distance between home- and foreign country influence their IMS decisions? A mixed research strategy will be employed by applying qualitative and quantitative methods concurrently. The data collection will involve interviews with CEOs and managers, alongside a web survey to 55 managers of Telkom's. Results suggest important consequences for IMS decisions and emphasizes the need for dialogue on perceptions of cultural and business characteristics of countries.
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The evolution of emerging technologies that use Radio Frequency Electromagnetic Field (RF-EMF) has increased the interest of the scientific community and society regarding the possible adverse effects on human health and the environment. This article provides NextGEM’s vision to assure safety for EU citizens when employing existing and future EMF-based telecommunication technologies. This is accomplished by generating relevant knowledge that ascertains appropriate prevention and control/actuation actions regarding RF-EMF exposure in residential, public, and occupational settings. Fulfilling this vision, NextGEM commits to the need for a healthy living and working environment under safe RF-EMF exposure conditions that can be trusted by people and be in line with the regulations and laws developed by public authorities. NextGEM provides a framework for generating health-relevant scientific knowledge and data on new scenarios of exposure to RF-EMF in multiple frequency bands and developing and validating tools for evidence-based risk assessment. Finally, NextGEM’s Innovation and Knowledge Hub (NIKH) will offer a standardized way for European regulatory authorities and the scientific community to store and assess project outcomes and provide access to findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR) data.
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Beeldbellen wordt gezien als één van de oplossingen om de kosten van de geestelijke gezondheidszorg in de hand te houden en kwalitatief goede zorg te blijven leveren. Beeldbellen (ook wel bekend als beeldschermzorg of telezorg) is een vorm van zorg op afstand waarbij zorgverlener en cliënt met elkaar communiceren via een beeldscherm. Effectievere behandeling, doelmatiger werken en afname van reistijd worden gezien als enkele grote voordelen van zorg op afstand (GGZ Nederland, 2013). Overheden, zorgverzekeraars en GGZ-instellingen hebben beeldbellen en andere vormen van zorg op afstand vanwege deze voordelen tot een speerpunt van hun beleid gemaakt (Schippers & van Rijn, 2014). Hierdoor aangemoedigd, worden er veel pilots met beeldbellen uitgevoerd. Echte doorbraken blijven vooralsnog echter uit (Krijgsman et al., 2016).
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The aim of this study was to understand the motives for using the Internet, and its associations with users' attitudes, social values, and relational involvement. Also, this study attempted to crossculturally compare the difference in the pattern of motives and the associations among three countries ' the US, the Netherlands, and S. Korea. The design of methods was based on examination and revision of uses and gratification approach toward Internet users. Findings from factor analysis revealed that information seeking and Self-Improvement were the dominant and common reasons for using the Internet across three countries. The differences in the composition of motives in each country were also reported. Strong correlations across countries were found between all the motives and satisfaction of the Internet. Expectation and positive evaluation of the Internet were also important attitudes associated with Internet use motives. Postmaterialist value showed strong association with motives of information seeking and Self-Improvement. Community involvement was significantly associated with Internet use motives in Korean users.
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Dit is het eindrapport van de Global mOralHealth bijeenkomst georganiseerd door de Wereldgezondheidsorganisatie (WHO) en de universiteit van Montpellier. Docent Mondzorgkunde - Janneke Scheerman en lid van het lectoraat GGZ verpleegkunde - woonde deze bijeenkomst in oktober 2018 bij en droeg bij aan het rapport: https://www.inholland.nl/nieuws/be-helthy-be-mobile/ Als vervolg op de Global mOralHealth bijeenkomst wordt het mOralHealth handboek ontwikkeld, waaraan Janneke meeschrijft. In het handboek worden de procedures voor het ontwikkelen van mOralHealth interventies beschreven.
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Deze tekst beschrijft de globale digitale kloof. Daarbij wordt opgemerkt dat we ons niet mogen laten verleiden door de simpliciteit van het meetbare, t.w. het al dan niet hebben van een computer met internettoegang. De digitale kloof kent immers meerdere dimensies, waarvan bezit maar een is. Zo moet er bv. ook relevante inhoud beschikbaar zijn. Het is schrijnend te observeren dat er op internet massaal informatie beschikbaar is over ingeblikt voedsel voor huisdieren, maar weinig hoe cholera te vermijden. Waarom zou iemand in het zuiden dan op internet gaan ? Op het einde van deze tekst wordt de digitale kloof vergeleken met een eenhoorn.
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Although the scientific literature consists of over 10,000 papers on eHealth, remarkably few applications are consistently being used in the healthcare domain. Numerous reasons for this lack of progression have been noted, one of these being the objection of medical professionals to the introduction of interventions that are supposedly lacking evidence of their effectiveness. A study of existing literature and, especially, literature reviews confirms that there does not yet exist scientific evidence of the effectiveness of eHealth. But, this study also comes across insights in the reasons why scientific evidence is hard to come by and possible future directions for healthcare organisations how to take advantage of eHealth despite the current lack of interventions that are truly evidence-based and for eHealth researchers to build collectively a stronger evidence-based case for eHealth interventions.
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Elk jaar organiseert de HBO-I stichting, het samenwerkingsverband van hbo ict-opleidingen in Nederland, een conferentie voor haar leden. Tijdens deze conferenties staan strategisch beleid, deskundigheidsbevordering en samenwerking centraal. Sinds 2005 is de internationale oriëntatie als strategisch aspect benadrukt. De blik tien jaar vooruit om de curricula niet op hypes, maar op trends te sturen. In 2005 werd Silicon Valley bezocht en in 2006 ging het HBO-I naar de CeBit in Hannover. Dit jaar zochten we de ict-wijsheid in het verre oosten. Hoe ontwikkelt ict zich in Azië? Dat was de reden voor het HBO-I om een studiereis te maken naar Japan. In Tokyo tref je alle grote ict-bedrijven en drie van de beste Japanse universiteiten. Geen betere periode om Tokyo te bezoeken dan de week van de kersenbloesem. Een verslag van een indrukwekkende HBO-I studiereis naar Japan.
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