Abstract. Agent-oriented cooperation techniques and standardized electronic healthcare record exchange protocols can be used to combine information regarding different facets of a therapy received by a patient from different healthcare providers at different locations. Provenance is an innovative approach to trace events in complex distributed processes, dependencies between such events, and associated decisions by human actors. We focus on three aspects of provenance in agent-mediated healthcare systems: first, we define the provenance concept and show how it can be applied to agent-mediated healthcare applications; second, we investigate and provide a method for independent and autonomous healthcare agents to document the processes they are involved in without directly interacting with each other; and third, we show that this method solves the privacy issues of provenance in agent-mediated healthcare systems.
The use of ICT solutions applied to Healthcare in distributed scenarios should not only provide improvements in the distributed processes and services they are targeted to assist but also provide ways to trace all the meaningful events and decisions taken in such distributed scenario. Provenance is an innovative way to trace such events and decisions in Distributed Health Care Systems, by providing ways to recover the origin of the collected data from the patients and/or the medical processes. Here we present a work in progress to apply provenance in the domain of distributed organ transplant management.
Abstract. The concept of provenance is already well understood in the study of fine art where it refers to the trusted, documented history of some work of art. Given that documented history, the object attains an authority that allows scholars to understand and appreciate its importance and context relative to other works of art. This same concept of provenance may also be applied to data and information generated within a computer system; particularly when the information is subject to regulatory control over an extended period of time. Today's distributed architectures (not only Agent technologies, but also Web Services' and GRID architectures) suffer from limitations, such as lack of mechanisms to trace results. Provenance enables users to trace how a particular result has been arrived at by identifying the individual and aggregated services that produced a particular output. In this chapter we present the main results of the EU PROVENANCE project and how these can be valuable in agent-mediated healthcare applications. For the latter we describe the Organ Transplant Management Application (OTMA), one of the demonstrator applications developed.
Cross-cultural leadership management is an effective process of business that gives a competitive advantage to the organisation in the global market. The overall performance of multinational projects can be improved by improving the cross-cultural leadership process. The cross-cultural leadership management process is effective to improve business negotiation techniques, communication and trust with people of other cultures and ultimately it improves the overall business of the organisation. Considering the diversity of international projects, efficient leadership and management provide an advantage to the business by improving potential barriers. Therefore, understanding the major impacts of cross-cultural leadership and management processes in international projects and their challenges is very important in the contemporary days. This research is thus emphasising the major impacts and challenges of the cross-cultural leadership processes and also provides different strategies to overcome the challenges through qualitative data collection and analysis process. On the other hand, thematic analysis has helped to give an insightful overview of the topic and also supported in making international projects more effective and easy. Hence, the following study gives an intense analysis of cross-cultural leadership processes that supports the organisation in a competitive international market. Keywords : Business Process, Cross-Cultural, Effective Business Process, Leadership Management.
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