BACKGROUND: Recent legislation empowering providers to embrace the electronic
exchange of health information leaves the healthcare industry increasingly vulnerable to …

This paper presents an assessment of the Chinese healthcare system in 31 provinces for a
10-year period in light of relevant physical and human resource variables. First, a novel TEA …

Cross-border data transmission in the biomedical area is on the rise, which brings potential
risks and management challenges to data security, biosafety, and national security …

This paper investigates a decomposition approach for binary optimization problems with
nonlinear objectives and linear constraints. Our methodology relies on the partition of the …

Organizations today regularly share their customer data with their partners to gain
competitive advantages. They are also often requested or even required by a third party to …

User privacy protection is a vital issue in online social networks (OSNs). Even though users
often intentionally hide their private information in OSNs, adversaries may conduct …

Due to the increasing pressure on resource limitations and the need for efficiency
improvements, effective healthcare service planning should analyse trends in citizens' …

In IT service operations such as service help desk, the primary task is to resolve customer
queries satisfactorily within the stipulated service level agreements (SLA). These customer …

We study operational and managerial problems arising in the context of security monitoring
where sessions, rather than raw individual events, are monitored to prevent attacks. The …

In health care organizations, decision making is very complicated and could be of both
clinical and nonclinical nature. Decision towards patients is usually associated with multiple …