Roy Rada

Artificial intelligence techniques have long been applied to financial investing scenarios to determine market inefficiencies, criteria for credit scoring, and bankruptcy...

Artificial intelligence techniques have long been applied to financial investing scenarios to determine market inefficiencies, criteria for credit scoring, and bankruptcy...

A review of the literature highlights the ways in which information technology offers opportunities in long-term care, an area of research and application that might be called...

A decision tree program for forecasting stock performance is applied to Compustat's Global financial statement data augmented with International Monetary Fund data. The...

The concept of ontologies has been around for millennia and spans many domains and disciplines. Ontologies are a powerful concept when applied to intelligent computing....

A review of the literature highlights the ways in which Health Information Technology (HIT) offers opportunities in Long-Term Care (LTC). When no journal article or book could be...

This paper introduces a framework for a knowledge-based memetic algorithm, called KBMA. The problem of stock classification is the test bed for the performance of KBMA. Domain...

There has been a plethora of research in the area of knowledge portals, knowledge warehouses, ontologies, ontology creation and mapping, as well as the automatic creation and...

This chapter presents the case for knowledge-based machine learning in financial investing. Machine learning here, while it will exploit knowledge, will also rely heavily on the...

Ontologies are the backbone of intelligent computing on the World Wide Web but also crucial in many decision support situations. Many sophisticated tools have been developed to...

This paper provides an integrated and comprehensive conceptual framework for knowledge based decision making support systems. Previous research has focused primarily on general...

E-patients can empower themselves and improve healthcare. In online communities, patients may discuss adverse events that are inadequately addressed in the literature. The author...

Investment decisions have a significant impact on individuals, groups, organizations, the economy, and society. As a result, many formal methodologies and information systems...

A healthcare provider can extend its customer relationship management program by sponsoring an online, patient discussion group. In those groups, patients may discuss adverse...

This chapter presents the case for knowledge-based machine learning in financial investing. Machine learning here, while it will exploit knowledge, will also rely heavily on the...

The learning and accountability needs in a teachereducation department drove the development of a novel,web-based Education Accountability System (EAS). To fit the EAS with the...

E-adoption has been the central focus of the 21st century since both organizations and individuals around the globe are adopting the internet and other internet-based...

Investment decisions have a significant impact on individuals, groups, organizations, the economy, and society. As a result, many formal methodologies and information systems...

Education is associated with standardization – determining how learning should occur and for what students, is the essence of education from the perspective of those who...

The techniques of artificial intelligence include knowledgebased, machine learning, and natural language processing techniques. The discipline of investing requires data...

The healthcare industry in the United States consumes roughly 20% of the gross national product per year. This huge expenditure not only represents a large portion of the...

A healthcare provider can extend its customer relationship management program by sponsoring an online, patient discussion group. In those groups, patients may discuss adverse...

Healthcare is one of the greatest single cost items for citizens in many developed countries. Information is fundamental to healthcare. Yet information systems to support health...

The traditional software life cycle defined in ISO 12207 (Rada & Moore, 1997) begins with requirements capture and ends with retirement. The system development life cycle remains...

The official definition of a healthcare provider is broad. It encompasses institutional providers such as hospitals, nursing facilities, home health agencies, outpatient...

Most of what has been discussed in this book focuses on the provider and its relation to the patient as regards information systems. However, in the American health care system...

In the 1960s and early 1970s, the emphasis in hospital information systems was on operational control—active monitoring of routine task performance, with emphasis on doing highly...

The key financial transactions in U.S. healthcare occur when the provider sends a claim to the payer and the payer adjudicates the claim. This chapter first explains the history...

The connection of components of the healthcare system is a major step in improvement of the healthcare system. Through networking, different entities can better coordinate their...

The use of innovative applications of technology in the highly regulated world of medicine requires compliance with various government regulations (Goldberg & Gordon, 1999;...

The contemporary concerns for privacy are not that an official will physically enter and search someone’s house or that the newspaper will take photographs of private events....

Privacy and security of health information is a global concern. However, this chapter will focus on approaches to security in the United States. In particular, the federal...

Successful information systems depend more on people than on technology. What are the roles that are filled in a healthcare organization? Major roles are those of nurse and...

A vendor is any person or company that sells goods or services to someone else in the economic production chain. Parts manufacturers are vendors of parts to other manufacturers...

To diffuse is to spread widely. Anthropologically, diffusion occurs when practices or innovations spread within a community or from one community to another. Diffusing a...

Healthcare systems are so connected to the political and economic situation of a country that detailed, practical insights are hard to obtain that apply equally well across...

Online educational programs are changing the university profession. Two of the prominent organizational forms in modern society are professional and manufacturing. Universities...

The learning and accountability needs in a teacher education department drove the development of a novel, web-based Education Accountability System (EAS). To fit the EAS with the...

The learning and accountability needs in a teacher education department drove the development of a novel, Web-based education accountability system (EAS). To fit the EAS with the...

Three high-level observations set the stage: • Cancer is a major cause of death • Health-related concerns drive the greatest use of the Internet (Eysenbach, 2003) • Cancer...

Online educational programs are changing the university profession. Two of the prominent organizational forms in modern society are professional and manufacturing. Universities...

The International Journal of IT Standards and Standardization Research (IJITSR) publishes research findings with the goal of advancing knowledge and research in all aspects of IT...

The usability of online education relates to the culture of the profession that is expected to create and deliver online education. This profession is threatened by the...

One standards organization takes years to reach consensus, while another standards organization takes months (Rada, 1995a). Changes are occurring in the most famous and...