Meta-design of socio-technical systems is an approach which complies with the need of integrating two different types of structures and processes: technical systems which are engi...
Abstract. Advances in the miniaturization and embedding of electronics for microcomputing, communication and sensor/actuator systems, have fertilized the pervasion of technology in...
Providing healthcare services to patients and elderly people has been an emerging application domain in ubiquitous computing technologies. The current trend toward long-term health...
Abstract. We put forward an architectural framework that promotes the externalisation of the social dimension that arises in software-intensive systems which, like in healthcare, e...
- E-Health systems' interoperability constitutes one of the main challenges of the IT society. E-Health interoperability will not occur without a shared policy and a process f...