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The validity of survey sampling depends on how precise the data is. The validity reduces when questionnaire contains linguistic variables and respondent has to answer in zero or one. The ambiguity in the respondent’s mind can be minimized by getting a response in an intuitionistic fuzzy sense. In this study, we proposed intuitionistic fuzzy aggregative investment benefit rate to select the best manufacturing facility location, where respondents expressed both membership function and nonmembership function for linguistic variables, with some hesitancy level, and give significant improvement over the fuzzy assessment method. The proposed methodology is also verified at different hesitancy levels and recommended to use a small hesitancy level. Real-life example of the use of electronic data interchange (EDI) in Pakistan’s different fields, such as business, commerce, transport, airlines, warehousing, and logistic and delivery industry, is used to support the proposed methodology. Thus, an intuitionistic fuzzy rate reduces the cost, time, and effort of survey sampling instead of taking and analyzing responses from large samples.

With features like immutability and transparency, blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) can enable the telco industry to exchange services using smart contracts. Consequently, various 6G network stakeholders can participate in a marketplace for inter-provider agreements as either service providers or consumers. As, a blockchain-based 6G network can aid administrative domains in sharing resources (virtual network functions, services, or slices). However, such a dynamic environment requires strict Service Level Agreement (SLA) monitoring and management. Therefore, this paper considers a use case of a smart contract-based inter-provider agreement. We use novel solutions like IOTA Tangle to perform transactions, IPFS to store the hash of use case data files, and chainlink to access off-chain data feeds for SLA monitoring, reducing costs and increasing transparency. We also provide experimental evaluations of and divide the emulation into two phases. Phase 1 consists of choosing the approach and creating a smart contract (SC) (i.e., SC-Marketplace or SC-Auction). Furthermore, phase 2 consists of off-chain data feed to monitor SLA through chainlink. Finally, we measure transaction latency, response time, overall time consumption, and transaction & storage cost. The maximum latency observed in phase 1 is ?25{ms} and ?15{s} for phase 2. Similarly, the average response time for both phases is ?14{s} 20s. Lastly, the results also explain that using IOTA-EVM, we can have fee-less transactions, and IPFS helps reduce the storage cost by up to ?80%. However, it is concluded that adding chainlink adds additional cost for SLA data feeds. © 2022 IEEE.

Axiomatic Theories and Improving the Relevance of Information Systems Research This paper examines the fact that a significant number of empirical information systems (IS) studies engage in confirmative testing of self-evident axiomatic theories without yielding highly relevant knowledge for the IS community. The authors conduct both a horizontal analysis of 72 representative IS theories and an in-depth vertical analysis of 3 well-known theories (i.e., technology acceptance model, diffusion of innovation theory, and institutional theory) in order to measure how pervasive such testing of axiomatic theories is. The authors discovered that more than 60% of 666 hypotheses from the horizontal analysis could be regarded as axiomatic theory elements. In the vertical analysis, 68.1% of 1,301 hypotheses from 148 articles were axiomatic. Based on these findings, the authors propose four complementary IS research approaches: (1) identifying disconfirming boundary conditions, (2) measuring the relative importance of axiomatic causal factors, (3) measuring the stage of progression toward visionary goals when the nature of the axiomatic theory can be extended to future visions, and (4) engaging in the conceptual design of visionary axiomatic goals. They argue that these complementary IS research approaches can enhance the relevance of IS research outcomes without sacrificing methodological rigor.

The digital environment, which includes the Internet and social networks, is propitious for digital marketing. However, the collection, filtering and analysis of the enormous, constant flow of information on social networks is a major challenge for both academics and practitioners. The aim of this research is to assist the process of filtering the personal information provided by users when registering online, and to determine which user profiles lie the most, and why. This entailed conducting three different studies. Study 1 estimates the percentage of Spanish users by stated sex and generation who lie the most when registering their personal data by analysing a database of 5,534,702 participants in online sweepstakes and quizzes using a combination of error detection algorithms, and a test of differences in proportions to measure the profiles of the most fraudulent users. Estimates show that some user profiles are more inclined to make mistakes and others to forge data intentionally, the latter being the majority. The groups that are most likely to supply incorrect data are older men and younger women. Study 2 explores the main motivations for intentionally providing false information, and finds that the most common reasons are related to amusement, such as playing pranks, and lack of faith in the company's data privacy and security measures. These results will enable academics and companies to improve mechanisms to filter out cheaters and avoid including them in their databases.

Automation of processes related to data exchange is an effective way of communication between two or more independent entities. The paper deals with the necessity of implementation Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) into processes of the transport company and suggests applying this system as a method of communication between customers and a transport company. The transport company can simplify and speed up all the processes within transportation chain by the implementation of EDI and a suitable interface for application programming.

Electronic or e-trade trading (English: Electronic Commerce, also e-commerce) is a spread, purchase, sales, marketing goods and services through an electronic system such as internet or television, www, or other computer networks. Ecommerce can involve electronic fund transfers, electronic data exchange, auto inventory management systems, and automatic data collection systems. The Information Technology industry sees this e-commerce activity as the application and application of e-business (e-business) related to commercial transactions, such as: electronic fund transfer, SCM (E-Marketing), e-marketing), online marketing, online transaction processing (online transaction processing), electronic data interchange / edi), etc.E-commerce is part of e-business, where e-business coverage is wider, not just a commerce but includes also co-entrance business partners, customer service, job vacancies etc. Seeing very fast developments of the e-commerce growth in the world including in Indonesia, it is necessary an effective strategy for the tax authority in the reacting. One of the things that need to be concern is this very rapid growth should be maintained so that there is no distortion as a result of taxation policy. During this time, the tax aspect in e-commerce has been the highlight of tax authorities in the world, especially whether there should be a new tax impression on this transaction and also how to align the existing tax rules with e-commerce development.Transactions through digital media or e-commerce in Indonesia need rebuilding from the side of the legislation (Cyberlaw) so that in the future do not miss the dispute in it runs. This happens because the difficulty of tracking the transactions used through the e-commerece is either B-to-B (business to business) or B-to-C (business to consumers). For example the relationship between the supplier with the factory, how the apparatus is to oversee the existence of transactions or not between the two through the e-commerce the solution of solving the problem is the government must take steps in solving the unstable internet infrastructure issues and frequent reliable transportation, the licensing procedure of customs to dedicate to the duty procedure from dawn to the negative trade for the other value to increase the efficacy to make the rules for the epimal services that are still under the regulations of the same bank as well as the public of the transactions of online transactions, plan and conduct the introduction of certification systems, a number of large players should be able to open the way of foreign investment, including doing some major plans for foreign investors, of course with clear regulations and the government must provide ease of rules for small and medium business to gain access to investors, and giving taxes to the company in the new company.

As a key feature of networked control systems (NCSs), the time delays induced by communication medium sharing and data exchange over the system components could largely degrade the NCS performances or may even cause system instability, and thus, it is of critical importance to reduce time delays within NCSs. This paper studies the time-delay reduction problem in distributed NCSs and presents a dual-way data scheduling mechanism for time-delay reductions in delay-bounded NCSs with time-varying delays. We assess the time delays and their influences on the NCSs first with various delay factors being considered and then describe a one-way scheduling mechanism for network-delay reductions in NCSs. Based upon such a method, a dual-way scheduling algorithm is finally proposed for distributed NCSs with different types of transmitted data packets. Experiments are conducted on a remote teaching platform to verify the effectiveness of the proposed dual-way scheduling mechanism. Results demonstrate that, with the stability time-delay bound considered within the scheduling process, the proposed mechanism is effective for NCS time-delay reductions while addressing the stability, control accuracy, and settling time issues efficiently. Such a proposed mechanism could also be implemented together with some other existing control algorithms for time-delay reductions in NCSs. Our work could provide both useful theoretical guidance and application references for stable tracking control of delay-bounded NCSs. Published version

Incomplete information often occurs along with many database applications, e.g., in data integration, data cleaning, or data exchange. The idea of data imputation is often to fill the missing data with the values of its neighbors who share the same/similar information. Such neighbors could either be identified certainly by editing rules or extensively by similarity relationships. Owing to data sparsity, the number of neighbors identified by editing rules w.r.t. value equality is rather limited, especially in the presence of data values with variances . To enrich the imputation candidates, a natural idea is to extensively consider the neighbors with similarity relationship. However, the candidates suggested by these (heterogenous) similarity neighbors may conflict with each other. In this paper, we propose to utilize the similarity rules with tolerance to small variations (instead of the aforesaid editing rules with strict equality constraints) to rule out the invalid candidates provided by similarity neighbors. To enrich the data imputation, i.e., imputing the missing values more , we study the problem of maximizing the missing data imputation. Our major contributions include (1) the np -hardness analysis on solving as well as approximating the problem, (2) exact algorithms for tackling the problem, and (3) efficient approximation with performance guarantees. Experiments on real and synthetic data sets demonstrate the superiority of our proposal in filling accuracy. We also demonstrate that the record matching application is indeed improved, after applying the proposed imputation.

The process of selling software at PT. Electronic Data Interchange Indonesia is a very important thing besides the programmer division which is the company's kitchen, without sales the company is less effective. The purpose of writing is to design a system that can provide easier for companies in the process of selling software so that it will be more economical and communicative. The research method used in this research is using quantitative methods using primary and secondary data as samples. Primary data is taken from field observations in the workplace, namely by observing, interviewing customers and company employees. Secondary data is taken from available data by conducting a literature study. The software used in designing web-based software sales system applications is using the PHP programming language (Hypertext Preprocessor) and MySql as the database. The system development method used is the waterfall method with the modeling tools used are context diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams (DFD) and Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERD). The results achieved in the design of software sales systems by utilizing computer system technology to assist customers in buying products sold by PT. Electronic Data Interchange Indonesia practically. Conclusion The system is designed as simple as possible so that customers and companies can use it very easily.

The bullwhip effect is a phenomenon of curious amplification of variations in demand as one moves away from the final customer. Popularized by Lee and al., (1997), the bullwhip effect has negative consequences on all actors in the supply chain because it generates considerable loss of profits: Too much stock, loss of sales, poor customer service, insufficient quality and multiple disruptions of flow and organization. To prevent and reduce the bullwhip effect, various tools are recommended. The Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is among the most important given its impact on accelerating information sharing throughout the supply chain. This paper aims to shed light on the role of EDI, VMI (Vendor-managed inventory) and CPFR (collaborative planning forecasting and replenishment) in the prevention and reduction of the bullwhip effect in the supply chain.

In ERP’s (Enterprise Resource Planning)) integration processes, different solutions are used for data exchange. ERPs can be customized according to the solution used in the integration process. Due to use of different data types, systems can become complex. This complexity leads to problems with regards to data security. There still may be inadequate and missed conditions despite security measures taken for each data exchange method. Currently, EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) is one of the most widely used solutions for Data Exchange. In this study, we have created a design pattern that supports all kinds of data exchange and offers a holistic security solution. In this model, EDI is designed as intermediate level. A flexible and secure model is presented to ERP systems with this solution.

In the last two decades, information and communication technologies have significantly changed the development of relations in all sectors of public life. The modern information еra has provided unlimited opportunities for free exchange of information on all issues of public importance and the use of new technologies in order to raise the standard of living of members of society and their financial well-being. Information and communication technologies (ICT) are increasingly used in healthcare. A major factor in this trend is the extreme importance of information in medical practice. The way in which information about patients' health status is received and used by healthcare providers has a significant impact on the quality of care. The information itself, the selection and its completeness, becomes a decisive factor for the behavior of the participants in the national health systems - state bodies, medical establishments, professional companies, patient organizations and others.In this sense, the integration of information systems for electronic data interchange provides enormous opportunities for the rapid and efficient management of health information and hence for the more efficient operation of healthcare facilities and healthcare professionals. That's why, one of the most important tools for enhancing the effectiveness of any national health system is the construction of e-health (e-health). E-health is a valuable tool for improving national health systems and providing affordable and high quality health services. The successful construction and use of e-Health improves the communication environment and provides a number of benefits for the relevant national health system as well as for the whole community. In addition to building e-health, an effective healthcare system also requires the creation of an electronic health record for each patient, also referred to as electronic medical records. An electronic health record is a record that contains certain health information for one person in a format suitable for computer processing and use. Creating electronic health records is of great benefit to both patients and healthcare professionals. For example, the introduction of electronic medical records provides quick and easy access for physicians to patients' medical records, enabling them to track all important circumstances and changes in the patient's health status, and to tailor them to conduct specific diagnostic and healing activities.

Rapid growth and evolution in the number, functionalities, and scope of Internet of Things devices is evident. We present osmotic computing as a new paradigm able to respond to resource heterogeneity, secure data exchange, and efficient microservices deployment across federated cloud systems.

Inter-organizational information systems (IOIS) offer many potential benefits to organizations, and IOIS adoption has increased in the last few decades. However, IOIS adoption varies significantly across different contexts, and little research has investigated how contextual factors affect IOIS-adoption variances at the inter-organizational (IO) level in depth—particularly from a multilevel perspective. This paper proposes a novel multilevel framework to analyze what combinations of contextual factors at the national, industry, inter-organizational, and organizational levels influence IOIS-adoption variances at the inter-organizational level. We present an in-depth, exploratory case study of the Indonesian grocery industry that identified three inter-organizational configurations between manufacturers, distributors, and retailers with IOIS-adoption variances. We found that the combinations of multilevel contextual factors varied for each configuration and, thus, explain the IOIS-adoption variances we observed at the IO level in a nuanced and holistic way. We argue that our multilevel framework may help scholars avoid contextual fallacy by encouraging them to examine the influence of higher-level factors on IOIS-adoption variances at the IO level and to avoid the atomistic fallacy that results when they make the wrong assumption that IOIS adoption at the organizational level implies adoption at a higher level.

This paper examines the impact of the use of information and communications technologies on the overall performance of the supply chain in the Tunisian food sector. The information and communication technologies (ICTs) considered for this research are: Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Transport Management System (TMS), Warehouse Management System (WMS) and Radio-frequency Identification (RFID). From a large sample survey (n= 82) of manufacturing firms operating in Tunisian food sector, results collected by using multiple regression with SPSS statistical software show that only ERP and CRM have a significant impact on the performance of supply chain in the context of Tunisian food sector.

The article presents the concept of good practice in IT and the implementation of EDI technology in the Polish judicial system. The concept of good practice was described in the implementation of the pilot project of good management of the subordinate units of the Polish Ministry of Justice as a part of the project “Education in the time and cost management of judicial proceedings – case management”. The project was partially funded by the European Social Fund within the framework of Human Capital. The aim of the good practice “Digital writ of habeas corpus” (abbreviated to d-writ) is to introduce tools for electronic data interchange (EDI). These tools facilitate orders bringing prisoners and/or witnesses to courts by the police (replace paper communication with EDI communication channel embedded in IS of interested parties). It uses XML-based EDI protocol and encrypted data channel. The digital writ of habeas corpus saves both the courts an police money, and reduces the duration and complexity of the process. The article presents the assumptions of good d-writ practice, the technology involved and the stages of the project’s implementation.

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) has been a trusted form of communication standard for numerous industries since the 1970's. EDI is used for the exchange of data between two or more entities using an agreed upon EDI standard. With the plethora of data being generated across industries and research, the reliance on technologies such as EDI is more significant than ever. For an industry dealing with sensitive information such as health care, the parameters of security and reliability are of the utmost importance. A traditional EDI protocol provides a structured mechanism for data sharing between a sender and receiver creating pockets of disconnected data across the health care network. With the advent of blockchain there is now a more complete way to connect all these pockets of data. Blockchain is a distributed ledger that can be accessed by any entity, who has been granted access, to the blockchain. Every partner on the blockchain can see the most current data between all partners removing the typical delays and mishandling of data. By coupling together an industry standard such as EDI with blockchain creates a system that can allow for continued use of a trusted system but revolutionize it with ease of access for everyone involved. Creating an end-to-end data mechanism will not only generate more data, but more complete data since it will include data from every entity in the network on a distributed ledger. While blockchain in health care is not a new idea what this paper is proposing is the next step in this trend by looking at how big data analytics can be used along with the improved data transmission system. With the more complete data that would be generated from an EDI and blockchain system big data will be able to make better predictions, and even open the door to some completely new ways of analyzing data. The objective of this paper is to outline the current technologies and explore some possibilities for how integrating these technologies could benefit any industry, but more specifically health care.

The medical record is the work product of the healthcare team. The information contained in the medical record is comprised of patient complaints and recollections; medications and substance use history; data such as laboratory values, radiograph reports, and physical examination findings; and impressions and judgment. In order for patients to discuss their health issues frankly and honestly with healthcare professionals, there must be a sense of confidentiality and trust. In the past, handwritten medical charts could be lost or photocopied, but such breaches were limited in scope. The electronic medical record (EMR) created a cyberdocument that was ethereal that allowed for multiuser access, and which was portable; however, as with all electronic data, the EMR was subject to inadvertent large-scale dissemination and large-scale “hacking” access. In order to leverage the opportunities of the EMR and to best utilize the EMR for electronic data interchange and analysis, the passage of security laws was necessary. Laws and regulations regarding the privacy of medical information include not only HIPAA and HITECH but also state privacy laws and disciplinary rules and regulations. The scope and impact of such privacy rules and regulations on healthcare continue to evolve.

There is an increase in the usage of the Internet of Things (IoT) devices which focus on, efficiency and automation of different tasks to minimize the user intervention during COVID-19 pandemic. These IoT devices incur seamless excessive data exchange, Therefore, there is need for reinforcing the security, authentication and privacy to be more resilient to the various types of attacks which are the key concern for many organizations, especially cloud based networks carrying sensitive data. This paper presents a review of the challenges facing the IoT ecosystem along with the attack vectors threatening the IoT environment. A proposed solution for defending security threats found in IoT using blockchain technology is also discussed.

Electronic exchange of healthcare data between hospitals and institutions is limited by privacy, interoperability, and dependency on centralized data management systems. Sharing patients' data without their consent is a violation of the law and bears the risk of identity hack and misuse of healthcare data. Not all healthcare institutions follow a similar structure and semantic to store patients' data, making it almost impossible to share the data for research and better patient management. Centralized data management system is vulnerable to cyberattacks and data theft. It also creates lock-in problems for patients intending to migrate their data to any other institute. In this paper, a permissioned Blockchain with Proof of Authority (PoA) technology has been proposed that guarantees data privacy, data owner's control on sharing their sensitive information, and effective distributed management of healthcare records. It also addresses the importance of managing medical records in an interoperable manner, and the use of de facto standards such as Fast Healthcare Interoperable Resources (FHIR), which helps the meaningful exchange of healthcare records among all participants. The work is based on simulating the outcome of using PoA to understand the efficacy of this consensus algorithm when using Blockchain technology for secure data sharing.

Driven by the advancements in computing and sensing technology, scientific applications started to generate a huge volume of data which needs to be streamed to highperformance computing clusters timely for real-time (or near-real time) processing, necessitating reliable network performance to operate seamlessly. However, existing data transfer applications are predominantly designed for batch workloads in a way that transfer configurations cannot be altered once they are set. This, in turn, severely limits streaming applications from adapting to changing dataset and network conditions therefore meeting stringent performance requirements. In this paper, we propose FStream to offer performance guarantees to time-sensitive streaming applications by dynamically adjusting transfer settings when system conditions deviate from initial assumptions to sustain high network performance throughout the runtime. We evaluate the performance of FStream by transferring several synthetic and real-world workloads in high-performance production networks and show that it offers up to 9x performance improvement over state-of-the-art data transfer solutions.

The music industry uses several categories of information standards, which involve policies, governance rules, and technical specifications. This chapter explains the standardized ways of identifying music-related parties, intellectual property, publications, products, and releases; of formatting music metadata; and of exchanging data electronically. It describes how parties such as songwriters/composers, music publishers, recording artists, performers on sound recordings, and record companies are identified through use of the IPI, IPN, and ISNI; intellectual property such as musical compositions and sound recordings and music videos are identified through use of the ISWC, ISRC, acoustic fingerprints, and watermarks; and publications, products, and releases are identified through the use of the ISMN, GTIN, and GRiD. It explores the way that Music Data Style Guides are used to set rules regarding the presentation of information to consumers and the structure of data which accompanies digital music files. It explains the electronic data interchange standards, including the CIS and DDEX message suites, which are used to efficiently communicate information between parties in the supply and value chains. Finally, the chapter looks to the future, considering the information management segment of the music industry as a form of IT service management and explores ways that people, process, and technology may come together to maximize business value.

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is an electronic data exchange mechanism between a company and another company or Business to Business (B2B) in a supply chain cycle. In this study, EDI's role in managing the procurement of goods as well as the EDI model has been applied. Determination of vendor recommendations is one element of vendor performance evaluation of the procurement process. Lack of information and analysis obtained by PT. Cinovasi Rekaprima makes it difficult to predict vendor recommendations. Predicted vendor recommendations can help the Procurement Division in developing appropriate strategies to determine recommended vendors. This problem can be applied to data mining techniques to make predictions using the classification method. Decision Tree is a method that converts facts into decision trees that represent rules that can be interpreted by humans. Attributes that influence the determination of vendor recommendations consist of the availability of goods, services, ease of ordering and product quality. Sample data obtained directly from the Procurement Division of PT. Cinovasi Rekaprima is primary data in the form of vendor data (quotation) and secondary data in the form of vendor performance evaluation forms. The result of the EDI application is a classification consisting of 2 classes, namely recommended vendors and non-recommended vendors and the Procurement Division can use it for decision making to determine the right vendor, so that the procurement process becomes easier and increases company profitability. The testing model uses k-fold cross-validation with the k value is 1 to 10 fold. This application can determine vendor recommendations with the highest accuracy 87.00 % on k-3 and k-5 fold.

Data Exchange layer X-Road successfully implemented in Estonia is a key enabler for secure data exchange and interoperability in public and private sector. Other countries are adopting the similar interoperability and data exchange framework as a part of e-governance solution. To ensure successful adoption of previously named framework it is important to identify crucial prerequisites influencing the process. In current paper, we analyse the practice of nine different countries. First, we define possible prerequisites in combination with relevant literature, data and documentation analysis. Second, we validate these prerequisites through qualitative expert interviews and identify additional prerequisites. The focus of this paper is on X-Road adoption critical prerequisites, in this context we analyse X-Road deployment wealth indicators, the impact of prerequisites in accelerating X-Road implementation, and procedures to assess countries readiness to adopt X-Road. Research results presented in this paper offer initial assessment framework to investigate the country's readiness to adopt systems similar to X-Road.

El avance de las tecnologías de la información ha permitido un cambio sustancial en el desarrollo de la Salud, por lo que el uso de estándares de telemedicina como el HL7 y CEN TC 251-13606 permiten que los sistemas de información médica se comuniquen vía mensajes estandarizados facilitando el uso de los mismos. El propósito de este estudio es crear una guía metodológica de intercambio electrónico de información clínica basada en el análisis de los estándares de telemedicina HL7 y CEN TC 251- 13606 para mejorar la eficiencia de la gestión de Historias Clínicas de los pacientes. La metodología consta de 2 fases, la primera plantea el diseño e implementación del modelo de referencia de la Historia Clínica Electrónica, el mismo que define entidades necesarias en la construcción de una Historia Clínica Electrónica, en la fase 2 se define la arquitectura de la historia clínica especificando la estructura y semántica del documento mediante el lenguaje XML, el cual se utiliza en los procesos de gestión de las historias clínicas electrónicas dentro del sistema médico desarrollado. Este sistema permite control clínico a distancia facilitando la interacción médico-paciente. El sistema posee una aplicación web, una aplicación de escritorio y una plataforma hardware e- Salud. La aplicación de la metodología planteada mejora la eficiencia de la gestión de historias clínicas, puesto que el 83.32% de los médicos de la clínica consideran que se agiliza el proceso de acceso, creación e ingreso de historias clínicas y reduce recursos en el proceso de control de pacientes domiciliarios. The advance of Information and Communication Technologies has improved Health Care in last years; by providing new ways of accessing medical information. In particular, the use of telemedicine standards such as HL7 and CENTC 251-13606 allows standard communication, integration, and retrieval of electronic health records among medical systems. This article aims to create a methodological guide for the electronic exchange of clinical information based on telemedicine standards in order to improve the efficiency of electronic health records management. The proposed methodology consists of two phases: The first one states the design and implementation of the reference model of an electronic health records, which defines entities of the electronic health record. In phase 2, this methodology describes electronic health records architecture. The architecture is defined by the structure and semantics of the document using XML. In order to test the proposed methodology, a medical system was implemented that consists of a web application, desktop application, and hardware platform e- Health. This system allows the electronic exchange of clinical information to ease patient-doctor interaction. The results show 83,32% of doctors at the clinic where the system was tested agree the proposed methodology for electronic exchange improves the efficiency of electronic health records management since it speeds up the process of creation and retrieval of an electronic health records. Moreover, the system reduces resources in the control of home patients. Palabras clave: Telemedicina, HCE, HL7, CENTC 251-13606, e-Salud. Keywords: Telemedicine, EHR, HL7, CENTC 251-13606, e-Health.

The assembly industry implements production outsourcing to meet the needs of assembly product components. The outsourcing of assembly product components is based on a relationship model between the contractor and the industry, between the industry with assembly parts and other processes, and more recently between the assembly parts and sales. In production outsourcing, there are generally no communication patterns established between the contractor/supplier and the assembly team regarding problems that may appear during the assembly process. Electronic data interchange (EDI) technology as a method to promote electronic communication between companies can be implemented for assembly teams and suppliers so that the former can relay component assembly problems during the assembly process. In order to improve coordination and communication with external business partners, the production outsourcing activities need EDI technology so they can communicate rapidly and accurately. To make EDI technology more useful, this method can be integrated with a manufacturing, planning system called computer-aided process planning (CAPP). CAPP is a link between design and manufacturing in a computer-integrated manufacturing environment. Commonly used by manufacturing engineers, CAPP can be used to develop a product manufacturing plan. The purpose of the present study was to design and develop a web-based software application integration initiative between EDI and CAPP that can be used as a communication means between the assembly team and the supplier, which will specifically help the assembly team to plan component assembly process so they can eliminate or reduce manual intervention in assembly planning

Blockchain has enormous potential to advance modern services, but it is important to remember that no new technology succeeds with the rip-and-replace method. Organizations using this technology will have a greater impact if they augment existing, well-established technologies such as electronic data interchange (EDI) systems.

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze maritime logistics connectivity of ports and shipping networks in the East Sea Economic Rim (ESER) to promote international trade in the context of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), considering centrality, primary flow and clustering interaction. Design/methodology/approach The paper applies a complex network model, using a big data system consisting of an automated identification system, electronic data interchange and distributive and complex data. Three perspectives, including connectivity in trading ports and regions, centralities in the realm of complex network and potential marketing and regional impacts, and sixteen criteria are considered for this analysis. A visual approach has been also applied to highlight port connectivity and ship flows for the reader’s convenience. Findings The paper shows that port connectivity and maritime logistics are enablers to promote Korean international trade in Northeast China through the ESER, and 25 major ports are well connected to promote international trade in the region with visual data of ship flows by ship type and by flag. Research limitations/implications Owing to the lack of port management information systems among the countries in the ESER except Korea and Japan, this paper could not capture cargo types and amounts on board. Port connectivity analysis shows links of the ports in the ESER to major ports in southeast Asia along the Twenty-first Century Maritime Silk Road (MSR). These results contribute to drawing policy implications to promote the ESER and provide suggestions for promoting Korean international trade by enhancing maritime logistics connectivity. Originality/value Unlike the existing literature showing descriptive and policy-oriented research related to ESER, this paper applied a vigorous method with a big amount of data to analyze port connectivity and ship flows in the ESER, considering China’s BRI affecting the global supply chain system, maritime transportation, and logistics. In addition, the paper shows how the seaports in the ESER are connected along the MSR.

This article discusses the experience and the ideas of National Statistical Institutes from four countries – Portugal, Sweden, Canada, and the Netherlands – in order to build a fully automated data collection system, to provide a system-to-system (S2S) data exchange or Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) between all stakeholders in the production chain. This joint work is a summary of an invited session at the Fifth International Conference on Establishment Surveys, which was devoted to ‘the future of business data collection’. Taken together, the four presentations provide an overview of recent experiences with S2S/EDI data collection for financial business data. The basis for such a system is an integrated unbroken digital information chain that runs from the recording of financial data in computerised administrative systems of individual businesses all the way to publishing economic statistics – the Business Information Chain. This chain can be ‘closed’ and made into a cycle by including a feedback loop, for example by providing benchmark data to businesses. However, to make it happen, technical standardisation, vertical and horizontal conceptual harmonisation between all partners in the chain, and positive business cases for all partners are needed. The article starts by putting EDI developments in historical perspective.

This paper discusses the related to the post-conflict developing regions, respectively transition regions which are a special subject of studies related to the deployment of technology in business processes. In typical circumstances Electronic Data Interchange and other digital technology become applied with the aim to improve the businesses effectiveness and efficiency by enhancing information quality, by increasing the information interchanging speed, by increasing business process flexibility and by improving operations and reliability of business network. Nevertheless, the purpose of digital technology at the operational level remains the same, the implementation and the goal are different when it comes to be implemented in specific regions, e.g. post-conflict and transition regions. While in developed economies the main objective of digital technology implementation is improvement of quality of information, in developing transition regions the implementation of EDI represents greater challenge since the main objective could be oriented towards economic stability. This study examines the implementation of digital technology with special emphasis on EDI implementation in less reliable environment of a post-conflict and transition region by exploring the challenges and obstacles.

The transition of the Russian economy to the electronic exchange of data in the sphere of housing and communal household is described. The influence of the system of public administration, namely the program «Digital Economy of the Russian Federation». This program has been designed to introduce electronic data interchange for the sphere of housing and communal household since the automation of data collection of utility meters and utility payments is able not only to save considerable amounts of budget, but also to provide reliable impartial accounting of consumption of communal resources. The development of the life of the population has been predicted with the continuing urbanization of society. The strengths and weaknesses of urban infrastructure development are revealed. The aspects of introduction of the digital management model are presented as the only affordable and economically justified way of building the housing and communal household in the future.

Implementation of electronic data interchange (EDI) is thus more desirable and will be one of the major determinants of business success of a company. Despite the current pressure of the public sphere and all the benefits that the adoption of EDI provides, the expansion of this technology is still a minority in the Czech Republic. The aim of this paper is to identify the specifics of EDI adoption, quantify their significance, mutual conditionality and propose a new general model of EDI adoption in businesses. The conclusions of this document are based on the primary data collected through a questionnaire survey in 2015. There were the key factors influencing the likelihood of EDI adoption and their interconnectedness identified. This model reflects the main determinants of the adoption of exchange structured messages for businesses as perceived benefits, external pressure, readiness, attitude of CEO, type of product, participation of trading partners, character of company etc. This study provides a comprehensive survey of motives and barriers of EDI adoption for enterprises, which are aware of the necessary interoperability within the single European market and its highly competitive environment. info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

The aim of this article is to analyze the impact of new technologies on supply chain management in the Armed Forces. The supply chain is not limited to the operations related to the physical movement of goods, but also includes the management of relations with suppliers and customers. However, the supply chain management, through the integration and coordination of both information and goods flow, is a main factor of the well-developed customer service. The changes in military logistics imposed the necessity of implementation of the modern information technologies in the Polish Armed Forces. The Polish Army has adopted the Integrated Multi-level Information System of the Ministry of Defense (ZWSI RON). The article describes various technologies used in supply chain management including information, communication and automatic identification technologies. The author emphasizes that modern technologies are essential to enhance supply chain competitiveness and performance by improving the overall effectiveness and efficiency of the logistic system. Moreover, implementing of various innovative technologies shortens the time required for the fulfillment of tasks as well as reduces their labor consumption.

We automate the process of license compatibility compliance.We consider the emerging Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) specification.License detection is an important step in the license compatibility process.We use a testing set with open source projects including three popular software products as case studies. Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) promotes software reuse and distribution at different levels for both creator and users, but at the same time imposes some challenges in terms of FOSS licenses that can be selected and combined. The main problem linked to this selection is the presence of a large set of licenses that define different rights and obligations in software use. The problem becomes more evident in cases of complex combinations of software that carries different often conflicting licenses. In this paper we are presenting our work on automating license compatibility by proposing a process that examines the structure of Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) for license compatibility issues assisting in their correct use and combination. We are offering the possibility to detect license violations in existing software projects and make suggestions on appropriate combinations of different software packages. We are also elaborating on the complexity and ambiguity of licensing detection in software products through representative case studies. Our work constitutes a useful process towards automating the analysis of software systems in terms of license use and compatibilities.

Os portos brasileiros apresentam problemas causados pela falta de investimento e inovação, levando a gargalos na movimentação das mercadorias. O mesmo ocorre em portos dos países integrantes do BRICS. Para a solução destes gargalos, uma opção seriam as Tecnologias de Informação (TI), que atuam como facilitadoras na gestão e operação portuárias. Neste artigo, tem-se como objetivo analisar os principais problemas encontrados nos portos do BRICS e propor soluções para estes por meio do uso de TIs. Assim, foi realizada uma pesquisa bibliográfica, por meio do levantamento em bases, como Scopus e SciElo, além de websites institucionais. Para o problema de alocação de berço, a otimização mostrou-se mais eficaz; quanto ao congestionamento, utilizou-se simulação, otimização e RFID, enquanto que para problemas de gestão, Sistemas de Transporte Inteligentes (ITS) e outras TIs (Electronic Data Interchange – EDI) auxiliariam na integração dos atores desse sistema logístico, minimizando grande parte dos problemas.

To reduce communication overhead on the premise of privacy protection, this study presents a novel secret Confusion based energy-saving and privacypreserving data aggregation algorithm (CESPT). In confusion phase, CESPT confuses real sensory data and their sources by positive-negative pairs and a confusion factor is introduced to determine the quantity of pairs generated by a sensor, the exchange rounds and the threshold of data exchange, which affect communication overhead and privacy intensity of a Wireless sensor network (WSN). In aggregation phase, CESPT adopts a positive-negative neutralization strategy and a well-designed time slice allocation mechanism to reduce network traffic and message collision. In a word, CESPT can greatly reduce data traffic and energy consumption and obtain accurate statistical results on the basis of data privacy.

This paper aims to analyze the international academic literature production about the main practices and initiatives related to collaborative management in supply chains in articles published in international journals indexed in Scopus. The research evaluated publications in the 2005-2014 period, using bibliometric techniques to identify the publication year, the country and the periodicals in which these papers were published, as well as the predominant themes. In total the research investigated 331 papers related to the following practices and collaborative initiatives: Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI), Continuous Replenishment (CR), Efficient Customer Response (ECR) and Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR). The results demonstrated that (a) there is no concentration of publications in a small group of journals; (b) there is a concentration of publication about the topics in a few countries, especially the United States; (c) there is no concentration of authors with several articles published about one of the practices or initiatives; (d) the EDI and the VMI are the most investigated practices in the articles analyzed; and (E) there is no concentration of publications in any specific year, keeping the publications balanced over the period investigated by the research.

This paper aims to explain how the paired-cell overlapping loops of cards with authorisation (POLCA) system can be an efficient practice to coordinate the production flow in supply chains (SCs). For this purpose, it describes a case study using POLCA between connections in an automobile industry SC. For adequate functioning of the POLCA system, it is proposed the combined use of such system with electronic data interchange and just in sequence. The methodology used in this research was the Case Study. Thus, a proposal was developed based on literature and field research. After that, the proposal has been validated through simulation. The simulation shown in the present study reveals that the proposal has the potential to allow the company maintaining its supply with a significant inventory reduction, therefore with a better production flow coordination with its dashboard supplier. The paper revealed a new and very promising mechanism for a company coordinates its production flow: the POLCA/EDI/JIS logic. This research has shown that POLCA system logic can also be used to coordinate the production flow between a company and its suppliers. To the best of our knowledge, any paper in literature presented this use for the POLCA system.

Multipath transmission control protocol (MPTCP) protocol is an extension of the well-known TCP transport protocol that enables transmission over multiple paths. The MPTCP is an answer to multihomin...

In the face of first-mover advantage in the logistics system of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) from Europe and the United States and other countries, and various problems in the promotion of logistics EDI system in our country, at this stage, China should adjust and improve effectively from five directions, such as formulating standards, legal protection, enhancing cognitive, support from the government and attention from enterprises in order to truly promote the construction and development of EDI logistics system in China.

The amount of healthcare data is increasing. However, issues with unstandardized data formats and the reliability of provenance make the data challenging to share with other institutions. This paper proposes a standards-based sharing framework, SHAREChain, which incorporates two features to deal with reliability and interoperability issues. First, it improves reliability by using the data integrity of a Blockchain-registry and constitutes a Consortium Blockchain Network to share data solely between authenticated institutions. The second feature improves interoperability with standards relating to healthcare data sharing: Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources and Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing.

Electronic data interchange (EDI) is a subset of electronic business-to-business (B2B) data exchange. It is one of the technologies that enable businesses to transact in an automated paperless way. Massive amounts of transactions that may take hours or days to process manually require a few seconds in EDI. This paper reviews the current state of EDI and the modern challenges it is facing. It fills a gap in the current literature where existing research on certain aspects of EDI is either absent or deprecated.EDI message representations are discussed with a specific focus on the genre implemented in international EDI standards. Different modern concepts are detailed, including electronic enveloping and translation. The current internet-based EDI protocols are discussed and evaluated for security issues. Finally, the security requirements are summarized along with a possible control mechanisms.

This study aims at determining the impact and level of implementation of technology drivers such as automatic identification technology, communication technology, and information technology to Nigerian logistics firm. A structured questionnaire was used to collect necessary data from respondents. The research hypothesis was tested using the Pearson product moment correlation coefficient to justify results of the survey. A total of 90 logistics companies were selected in Lagos Nigeria to represent the 50% of the population which is urbanized. The result from the Pearson correlation coefficient shows that there was a strong negative correlation between implementation of technologies and Nigeria logistics chain. The result also revealed that implementation levels of Barcode, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), Geographical Positioning System (GPS), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), and Distribution Requirement Planning (DRP) are very high whereas Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Voice Recognition Technology (VRT), Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT), Geographical Information System (GIS), Automated Guided Vehicle System (AGVS), and Automated Inventory Tracking System (AITS) are very low in Nigerian logistics firm. The main barriers to full implementation of the technology tools to Nigerian logistics firm are lack of awareness on IT tools, poor logistics standard, cost of implementation of IT infrastructure and government policies. From the findings of the survey, logistics firm in Nigeria should fully implement technology tools in their logistics operations.

The traditional models of electronic data interchange (EDI) and out-of-application methods for messaging and collaborations are not suitable to achieve the full benefits of VEASC because of multiple limitations. The limitations are: multiple human interventions, lack of real time visibility into the supply chain flows, inability to accurately synchronise the demand and supplyside information, and inability to build dynamic capabilities required for facing supply chain dynamics. The existing studies about deploying supply chain applications on cloud computing are focussed on overcoming these limitations through service-oriented architectures and their components. However, their focus needs to be expanded to virtual enterprise architecture modelling to overcome the limitations of EDI and out-of-application methods effectively. The virtual enterprise architecture supply chain (VEASC) model has been studied in this research employing Optimised Networking (OPNET) modelling and simulations of a commercial application called INTEND. The simulation results reflect a potential to overcome the limitations of traditional EDI and out-of-application methods. However, the true potential of the proposed system and the changes needed to automatically recover from failures can be determined after testing actual transactions in a real world VEASC implementation.

The computer-based representation of "things" in the real world is at the heart of today’s virtual engineering practices. Digital Twin (DT) is a term that receives significant attention in academia and business within this domain. Despite its appealing metaphorical strength, people use it to describe quite different applications with specific conceptual backgrounds, goals and approaches. This paper aims to provide a first systematic classification about DT applications to support follow-up research. The first part of this paper focuses on three application cases described in the academic literature. It analyzes their conceptual background, the targeted problem and the implemented use case. The result of this analysis are seven dimensions that categorize the presented DT applications. They include distinctions of goals, focused users, life cycle phases, system levels, data sources, authenticity and data exchange levels.