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Electronic and mobile Commerce have proven to be highly successful in improving cost efficiencies and driving revenue growth for corporations worldwide. Interestingly, the technol...
The World Wide Web is a collection of databases as well as web sites. Databases associated with web sites provide public access via query forms on web pages. They constitute an en...
A database system contains base data items which record and model a physical, real world environment. For better decision support, base data items are summarized and correlated to...
Patient scheduling in hospitals is a highly complex task. Hospitals have a distributed organisational structure; being divided into several autonomous wards and ancillary units. M...
Torsten O. Paulussen, Nicholas R. Jennings, Keith ...