A Wireless System for Secure Electronic Healthcare Records Management

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 16-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petros Belsis ◽  
Christos Skourlas ◽  
Stefanos Gritzalis
Keyword(s):  
Medical Personnel ◽  
Records Management ◽  
Wireless Devices ◽  
Wireless System ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Related Data ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Efficient Management ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Wireless Computing

Recent advances in wireless computing and in the hardware of wireless devices has opened new directions in many domains; for example in the medical domain the medical personnel in hospitals is able to use wireless devices to gain ubiquitous access to medical related information. However the sensitivity of medical related data poses many challenges in the effort to securely manage these data. In this paper the authors present an agent based architecture for efficient management of medical data. The authors present the security choices and also provide experimental details about the flexibility of our approach.

A Wireless System for Secure Electronic Healthcare Records Management

2015 ◽  
pp. 1509-1525
Author(s):  
Petros Belsis ◽  
Christos Skourlas ◽  
Stefanos Gritzalis
Keyword(s):  
Medical Personnel ◽  
Records Management ◽  
Wireless Devices ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Related Data ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Efficient Management ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Wireless Computing ◽  
Ubiquitous Access

Recent advances in wireless computing and in the hardware of wireless devices has opened new directions in many domains; for example in the medical domain the medical personnel in hospitals is able to use wireless devices to gain ubiquitous access to medical related information. However the sensitivity of medical related data poses many challenges in the effort to securely manage these data. In this paper the authors present an agent based architecture for efficient management of medical data. The authors present the security choices and also provide experimental details about the flexibility of our approach.

scholarly journals How have governments supported citizens stranded abroad due to COVID-19 travel restrictions? A comparative analysis of the financial and health support in eleven countries

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pippa McDermid ◽  
Adam Craig ◽  
Meru Sheel ◽  
Holly Seale
Keyword(s):  
Information Needs ◽  
Design Tool ◽  
Government Support ◽  
Website Design ◽  
Global Public Health ◽  
Related Data ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Travel Restrictions ◽  
Health Support ◽  
Content Accessibility

Abstract Background: In response to the continuing threat of COVID-19, many countries have implemented some form of border restriction. A repercussion of these restrictions has been that some travellers have been stranded abroad unable to return to their country of residence, and in need for government support. Our analysis explores the COVID-19-related information and support options provided by 11 countries to their citizens stranded overseas due to travel restrictions. We also examined the quality (i.e., readability, accessibility, and useability) of the information that was available from selected governments’ web-based resources.Methods: Between June 18 to June 30, 2021, COVID-19-related webpages from 11 countries (Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Canada, United States of America (USA), United Kingdom (UK), France, Spain, Japan, Singapore, and Thailand) were reviewed and content relating to information and support for citizens stuck overseas analysed. Government assistance-related data from each webpage was extracted and coded for the following themes: travel arrangements, health and wellbeing, finance and accommodation, information needs, and sources. Readability was examined using the Simplified Measure of Gobbledygook (SMOG) and the Flesch Kincaid readability tests; content ‘accessibility’ was measured using the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Version 2.1; and content ‘usability’ assessed using the usability heuristics for website design tool.Results: Ninety-eight webpages from 34 websites were evaluated. No country assessed covered all themes analysed. Most provided information and some level of support regarding repatriation options; border control and re-entry measures; medical assistance; and traveller registration. Only three countries provided information or support for emergency housing while abroad, and six provided some form of mental health support for their citizens. Our analysis of the quality of COVID-19-related information available on a subset of four countries’ websites found poor readability and multiple accessibility and usability issues.Conclusion: With large variance in the information and services available across the countries analysed, our results highlight gaps, inconsistencies, and potential inequities in support available, and raise issues pertinent to the quality, accessibility, and usability of information. This study will assist policymakers plan and communicate comprehensive support packages for citizens stuck abroad due to the COVID-19 situation and design future efforts to prepare for global public health emergencies.

Analysis and forecast of wildfires using Copernicus data and services

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Vitolo ◽  
Francesca Di Giuseppe ◽  
Mark Parrington
Keyword(s):  
R Package ◽  
Management Service ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Climate Data ◽  
Related Data ◽  
Emergency Situations ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation ◽  
Efficient Management ◽  
Monitoring Service ◽  
State Of The Environment

<p>Copernicus is the European Union’s Earth Observation programme aiming at monitoring and forecasting the state of the environment on land, sea and in the atmosphere, in order to support climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies, the efficient management of emergency situations and improve the security of every citizen.</p><p>Copernicus has created a wealth of datasets related to the forecasting of wildfire danger as well as the detection of wildfire events and related emissions in the atmosphere. These products contribute to the operational services provided by the Copernicus Emergency Management Service (CEMS) and the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) and consists of real time forecasts as well as historical datasets based on ECMWF reanalysis database ERA5. Most of these data are available through the Copernicus Climate Data Store (CDS) and the Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS).</p><p>We will present the complete wildfire-related data offering under the Copernicus CDS and GWIS and showcase how data can be post-processed and visualised using the caliver R package.</p>

scholarly journals Evolutionary Game Analysis of Competitive Information Dissemination on Social Networks: An Agent-Based Computational Approach

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qing Sun ◽  
Zhong Yao
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Evolutionary Game ◽  
Theoretic Model ◽  
Game Analysis ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Game Theoretic ◽  
Adoption And Diffusion ◽  
Information Adoption

Social networks are formed by individuals, in which personalities, utility functions, and interaction rules are made as close to reality as possible. Taking the competitive product-related information as a case, we proposed a game-theoretic model for competitive information dissemination in social networks. The model is presented to explain how human factors impact competitive information dissemination which is described as the dynamic of a coordination game and players’ payoff is defined by a utility function. Then we design a computational system that integrates the agent, the evolutionary game, and the social network. The approach can help to visualize the evolution of % of competitive information adoption and diffusion, grasp the dynamic evolution features in information adoption game over time, and explore microlevel interactions among users in different network structure under various scenarios. We discuss several scenarios to analyze the influence of several factors on the dissemination of competitive information, ranging from personality of individuals to structure of networks.

scholarly journals Impact of Flinch Technology on Damage Control and Survivability

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
R Sahie-Pour ◽  
D Berenbaum
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Control System ◽  
Control Systems ◽  
Situational Awareness ◽  
Damage Control ◽  
Data Communication ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Related Data ◽  
Data Communication Network

When a mission critical naval vessel is operating in dangerous waters or in battle, amongst other things, the success of its mission is a measure of capability and availability of its Weapon Systems, Combat and Communications Systems, Battle Damage Control System (BDCS) and Situational Awareness, as well as, its ability to recover from unplanned incidents. The next Generation Integrated Platform Management Systems (IPMS) for Autonomous Ships with much reduced manning, dictates special considerations for autonomous control systems across the ship support systems and beyond without need for man-in-the-loop for decision making. This entails detailed analysis, vulnerability and recoverability assessments during target ship’s basic design and the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) where available. The optimum strategy involves consideration of distributed smart agent based control and monitoring systems that shall react rapidly to changes in operational demands and incidents without the need for man-in-the-loop, creating BDCS dynamic kill cards across ship subsystems and, extending the IPMS BDCS capabilities to Combat Management.  The above gives rise to consideration of “Flinch Technology (FT)” [7].  It implies distributed smart agent based control systems that instinctively reacts to incidents for fast recoverability in the event of damage to supervisory control system (i.e. IPMS) and its related data communication network. This paper addresses the benefits that might be gained as a result of consideration of  smart agent based control systems with no manin-the loop involvement for decision making. Such technology solutions, empowered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) could be adopted in the future Autonomous Combatant Ships. 

scholarly journals Integrating Extended Non-destructive Testing in the Life Cycle Management of Bonded Products—Some Perspectives

2021 ◽  
pp. 331-350
Author(s):  
Welchy Leite Cavalcanti ◽  
Elli Moutsompegka ◽  
Konstantinos Tserpes ◽  
Paweł H. Malinowski ◽  
Wiesław M. Ostachowicz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Sensor Arrays ◽  
Product Management ◽  
Non Destructive Testing ◽  
Destructive Testing ◽  
Related Data ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Post Process ◽  
Structural Parts ◽  
Non Destructive

AbstractIn this chapter, we outline some perspectives on embracing the datasets gathered using Extended Non-destructive Testing (ENDT) during manufacturing or repair process steps within the life cycle of bonded products. Ensuring that the ENDT data and metadata are FAIR, i.e. findable, accessible, interoperable and re-usable, will support the relevant stakeholders in exploiting the contained material-related information far beyond a stop/go decision, while a shorter time-to-information will facilitate a prompter time-to-decision in process and product management. Exploiting the value of ENDT (meta)data will contribute to increased performance by integrating all defined, measured, analyzed and controlled aspects of material transformation across process and company boundaries. This will facilitate the optimization of manufacturing and repair operations, boosting their energy efficiency and productivity. In this regard, some aspects that are currently driving activities in the field of pre-process, in-process and post-process quality assessment will be addressed in the following. Furthermore, some requirements will be contemplated for harmonized and conjoint data transfer ranging from a bonded product’s beginning-of-life through its end-of-life, the customization of stand-alone or linked ENDT tools, and the implementation of sensor arrays and networks in joints, devices and structural parts to gather material-related data during a product’s middle-of-life application phase, thereby fostering structural health monitoring (SHM).

scholarly journals On Providing Differentiated Service Exploiting Multi-Instance RPL for Industrial Low-Power and Lossy Networks

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Mostafa Monowar ◽  
Mohammed Basheri
Keyword(s):  
Low Power ◽  
Industrial Applications ◽  
Link Quality ◽  
Monitoring And Control ◽  
Wireless Devices ◽  
Lossy Networks ◽  
Efficient Management ◽  
Processing Power ◽  
Industrial Monitoring ◽  
And Control

The rapid proliferation of low-power wireless devices enables the industrial users to improve the productivity and safety of the plants as well as efficient management of the system. This can be achieved through significant increase in data collection, remote monitoring, and control of the plants and promoting the development of industrial Internet of Things (IoT) applications. However, the industrial environment is typically harsh causing high link quality variations and topology changes. The wireless devices used in this environment are also resource constrained in terms of energy, memory, and processing power. In spite of their low-power and lossy nature, these networks demand provisioning of differentiated services for various industrial applications having diverse quality of service (QoS) requirements. Considering the unique characteristics of low-power and lossy networks (LLN), routing for low-power and lossy networks (RPL) is devised which was standardized by IETF in 2012. To meet the demand of diverse traffic, RPL supports multiple instances in a single network. This paper proposes MI-RPL, a multi-instance solution of RPL for industrial low-power and lossy networks (LLNs). MI-RPL defines four instances for four distinct traffic classes of industrial monitoring applications in terms of delay and reliability. MI-RPL also introduces composite routing metrics and proposes an objective function (OF) to compute the most suitable path for each instance. The performance of MI-RPL is investigated through simulations that exhibit MI-RPL has better delay and packet delivery performance for delay- and reliability-constrained traffic along with lower energy consumption compared to the standard RPL.

Software Agents for Mobile Commerce Services Support

2011 ◽  
pp. 246-266
Author(s):  
Mihhail Matskin ◽  
Amund Tveit
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Mobile Device ◽  
Software Agents ◽  
Mobile Commerce ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Wireless Devices ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Customer Profiles ◽  
Active Processing

This chapter considers an application of software agents to mobile commerce services provision. With the increasing number of e-commerce services for mobile devices, there are challenges in making these services more personalized and in taking into account the severely constrained bandwidth and restricted user interface these devices currently provide. In this chapter we present an agent-based platform for support of mobile commerce using wireless devices. Agents represent mobile device customers in the network by implementing highly personalized customer profiles. The platform allows customization and adaptation of mobile commerce services as well as pro-active processing and notification of important events. Information to the customers is delivered via both an access to the Internet and SMS messages. Usage of the platform is illustrated by examples of valued customer membership services and subscription services support. We hope that the presented work demonstrates benefits of software agents as assistants in mobile commerce services.

Secure Electronic Healthcare Records Management in Wireless Environments

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petros Belsis ◽  
Christos Skourlas ◽  
Stefanos Gritzalis
Keyword(s):  
Data Security ◽  
Privacy Preservation ◽  
Medical Information ◽  
Software Agents ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Critical Parameters ◽  
Records Management ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Wireless Environments

Wireless technologies have lately been integrated in many types of environments; their development is able to provide innovative services minimizing costs and the time necessary to identify the necessary information. However medical information is very sensitive since it contains critical personal data. Security and privacy preservation are very critical parameters. Lately, innovative technologies such as software agents’ technology have been utilized to support distributed environments. Presented is an architecture that allows secure medical related information management using software agents; this work expands previous research (Belsis, Skourlas, & Gritzalis, 2011). The authors present a security oriented solution and also provide experimental evidence about the capability of the platform to operate in wireless environments with large number of users.

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