Collaborative Service Research Articles

Architectural pattern for service collaboration

The aim of this paper is to propose a modeling framework, tailored to build efficient, elastic and autonomous applications from tasks and services. It includes integrated services to develop the software products, reusing on demand in-house services with specific requirements and flexible the representational state transfer (REST) services. The idea is to decouple authorization for reduced service dependency and to provide a possibility for developing the whole application by increasing the existing application flexibility. Based on the fact that there are different web application platforms that serve to offer services to users but they are not integrated; we propose a framework with high flexibility degree, especially integrating the most used services such: e-learning, administrative, and library services, as University services are concern.

TRANSFORMATION OF THE TRANSPORT SERVICES MARKET IN RUSSIA UNDER INTERNATIONAL SANCTIONS

Background. The paper is devoted to the study of trends in the transformation of the transport services market under the influence of international sanctions. It is shown that the functioning of the Russian transport industry is significantly influenced by external factors - constraints that determine the reorientation of logistics chains. The experience of other countries whose economies operate under international sanctions has been studied.
 Materials and/or research methods. Materials from open Internet sources, methods of system analysis, theory of synergetics, process approach were used.
 Results. The main directions and results of the transformation of the market of transport services and, in particular, rail transportation are presented. The classification of international sanctions is considered.
 Conclusion. According to the results of the study, it was found that the trends in the development of the transport services market that contribute to overcoming barriers to its path are: the development of the PL services market; collaboration of services; the departure of “gray” players; market consolidation (consolidation of carriers); reorientation of carriers to the domestic market and the countries of the Asia-Pacific region; development the North-South corridor (China and Kazakhstan as transit countries).

A Survey of Speech-Language Pathologists' and Teachers' Perceptions of Collaborative Service Delivery.

The purpose of this study was to compare speech-language pathologists' (SLPs) and teachers' perceptions of collaborative service delivery in a school setting. We created a survey for SLPs and teachers that included demographic questions and questions about the use of collaborative service delivery models, identification of collaborative partners, and perceived barriers to collaboration. Eighty-seven SLPs and 77 teachers responded to the survey from 28 states. We analyzed the data using mixed methods. The majority of SLPs reported that they used a combination of collaborative and noncollaborative service delivery models. Teachers also reported that the SLP at their school used collaborative and noncollaborative service delivery models. When asked to report on their collaboration experience generally, teachers rated their experience with collaboration more positively than SLPs. Teachers also were not as likely to identify SLPs as collaborative partners when compared with SLPs who identified teachers as collaborative partners. Finally, teachers and SLPs reported similar barriers to implementing a collaborative service delivery model. However, SLPs identified roles and responsibilities and training on collaboration as barriers to collaboration more than teachers. This study compared SLPs' and teachers' perceptions of collaborative service delivery in schools. The similarities and differences between SLPs and teachers can be used to help facilitate change in the use of collaborative service delivery models.

Pelatihan Mengelas dengan Kelengkapan Keselamatan dan Kesehatan Kerja (K3)

Welding technology is an applied technology that can be applied to society as a service company (welding contractor). The welding services business is a productive economic sector and has a wide range of markets, for example, the domestic market i.e. the manufacture of walkways, fences, canopies and d'Agliannes, as well as the transport sector for the repair and modification of automobiles. The use of welding technology in the community is based on training models. Through the PKM UNMUS 2022 programme, the PKM team is providing welding training using industrial safety equipment (K3) to the daily fish packing workers in Karang Inda Village, Merauke. Welding training is the solution for unskilled workers to increase their productivity. Training activities include socializing the community service program, training in welding theory through personal presentations and lectures, welding hands-on, and providing an understanding of K3 procedures and the use of PPE in the welding field. We hope that through this series of social contribution activities based on the social collaboration service SKIM, participants in the social contribution collaboration program will be able to acquire welding technology knowledge and skills for entrepreneurship.

Challenges and responsibilities in the medication management process in 24/7 group housing services for adults with intellectual disability: Interviews with nurses.

Staff in 24/7 group housing services for adults with intellectual disability are responsible for ensuring safe medication management processes and supporting the residents in their health-related issues. Ten interviewed nurses reported several challenges in the medication management process emerging at the staff level, the level of the group home, and the level of the social and healthcare system, and were often related to issues in communication and responsibility. They reported a variety of complex tasks in the medication management process, for which they need a multiple skill set. They also act as healthcare advocates for residents, but healthcare services do not always match residents' needs. Training for social and healthcare professionals, access to healthcare services and the collaboration of social and healthcare services should be improved to provide the people with intellectual disability the best possible pharmacotherapy and healthcare.

Traveling with pets: designing hospitality services for pet owners/parents and hotel guests

PurposePet-friendly hotels are growing rapidly. The prevalence of pet adoption has largely resulted from the loneliness due to social distancing that happened during the Coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. Many hotels around the world aim to become pet-friendly to satisfy the growing demand. Hoteliers believe that the popularity of pet-friendly hotels will continue, as pet owners often treat pets as their kids. This study aims to investigate how pet-friendly hotels need to design and manage pet-friendly services and policies.Design/methodology/approachUsing grounded theory methodology, this research conducts interviews with 25 pet-friendly hotel managers from Hong Kong (HK). The study includes hotels from different hotel categories and classifications. It examines the conceptualization of pet-friendly service design, drawing on a service blueprint.FindingsBuilding on the service marketing and service blueprint literature, this research provides a synthesis that reflects how pet-friendly hotels can serve both guests with and without pets. The findings reveal that pet-owner’s service expectations are formed on anthropomorphism, that is, an inclination of attributing human features to nonhuman entity. Hotel managers, and particular those who have pets personally understand better how pet-friendly service can be adapted to meet the expectations and requirements of pet owners while accommodating guests without pets. The market of pet-friendly hospitality is growing, with high profit potential from pet owners who are willing to spend generously.Research limitations/implicationsData were collected from selected pet-friendly hotels in HK through interviews with pet-friendly service providers. The research is qualitative and exploratory in nature. It aims to explore and examine the multilevel pet-friendly hospitality service design from a managerial perspective. This research enriches the literature on anthropomorphism theory, the design of pet-friendly services and the application of service blueprint.Practical implicationsThe research offers explicit suggestions for the design of pet-friendly hospitality services. A pet-friendly hotel service blueprint is developed. This can help managers to develop essential pet-friendly policies and service collaborations between internal departments and with external specialist organizations, maximizing the value for all stakeholders.Originality/valueThe study explores a rapidly emerging market and scrutinizes its specific design requirements. It extends theoretical insights by enriching the anthropomorphism theory and broadening the conceptualizations of service blueprint based on anthropomorphism theory.

A crowdsourcing database for the copy-number variation of the Spanish population

BackgroundDespite being a very common type of genetic variation, the distribution of copy-number variations (CNVs) in the population is still poorly understood. The knowledge of the genetic variability, especially at the level of the local population, is a critical factor for distinguishing pathogenic from non-pathogenic variation in the discovery of new disease variants.ResultsHere, we present the SPAnish Copy Number Alterations Collaborative Server (SPACNACS), which currently contains copy number variation profiles obtained from more than 400 genomes and exomes of unrelated Spanish individuals. By means of a collaborative crowdsourcing effort whole genome and whole exome sequencing data, produced by local genomic projects and for other purposes, is continuously collected. Once checked both, the Spanish ancestry and the lack of kinship with other individuals in the SPACNACS, the CNVs are inferred for these sequences and they are used to populate the database. A web interface allows querying the database with different filters that include ICD10 upper categories. This allows discarding samples from the disease under study and obtaining pseudo-control CNV profiles from the local population. We also show here additional studies on the local impact of CNVs in some phenotypes and on pharmacogenomic variants. SPACNACS can be accessed at: http://csvs.clinbioinfosspa.es/spacnacs/.ConclusionSPACNACS facilitates disease gene discovery by providing detailed information of the local variability of the population and exemplifies how to reuse genomic data produced for other purposes to build a local reference database.

Dual-Dimensional Manufacturing Service Collaboration Optimization Toward Industrial Internet Platforms

An Industrial Internet platform is acknowledged to be a requisite promoter for smart manufacturing, enabling physical manufacturing resources to be virtualized and permitting resources to collaborate in the form of services. As a central function of the platform, manufacturing service collaboration optimization is dedicated to establishing high-quality service collaboration solutions for manufacturing tasks. Such optimization is inseparable from the functional and amount requirements of a task, which must be satisfied when orchestrating services. However, existing manufacturing service collaboration optimization methods mainly focus on horizontal collaboration among services for functional demands and rarely consider vertical collaboration to cover the needed amounts. To address this gap, this paper proposes a dual-dimensional service collaboration methodology that combines functional and amount collaboration. First, a multi-granularity manufacturing service modeling method is presented to describe services. On this basis, a dual-dimensional manufacturing service collaboration optimization (DMSCO) model is formulated. In the vertical dimension, multiple functionally equivalent services form a service cluster to fulfill a subtask; in the horizontal dimension, complementary service clusters collaborate for the entire task. Service selection and amount distribution to the selected services are critical issues in the model. To solve the problem, a multi-objective memetic algorithm with multiple local search operators is tailored. The algorithm embeds a competition mechanism to dynamically adjust the selection probabilities of the local search operators. The experimental results demonstrate the superiority of the algorithm in terms of convergence, solution quality, and comprehensive metrics, in comparison with commonly used algorithms.

Strategi Komunikasi DPMPTSP Kabupaten Serang dalam Peningkatan Kualitas Pelayanan Perizinan Melalui OSS

The purpose of this study is to learn more about the various communication strategies used by the Serang Regency Investment and One-Stop Service Office (DPMPTSP), through this the government increases permission for people to do certain things, so that this will make life easier. easy for many people. This study uses a qualitative approach that relies on descriptive data collection techniques, such as observation and interviews. This research gives the result that the strategy used is to build communication through internal and external approaches. Internal approach communication is carried out by building emotional closeness to each individual who works within the Investment and One-Stop Service Office of Serang Regency, so that it can produce cooperation with good output in providing services to the community. As for the external approach communication strategy, namely carrying out a communication strategy that aims to create excellent public services through innovation in non-business licensing services and business licensing. The implementation of the non-business licensing system is carried out through the SIMPONIE Wabsite (Online Licensing Management Information System) as a non-business licensing service facility that is not processed through the OSS (Online Single Submission) system, to simplify and speed up business licensing for business actors. Through the OSS (Online Single Submission) service in collaboration with the regional government, namely the Serang Regency One-Stop Investment and Integrated Services Service to socialize and assist with problems for business actors in their area.

REMR: A Reliability Evaluation Method for Dynamic Edge Computing Network Under Time Constraint

Computation and/or communication-intensive collaborative services accompanied by several distributed tasks/components, such as the services in Internet of Things, can be anywhere nowadays. These services are usually used by users at the Internet edge, making cloud computing struggles with the high end-to-end latency. Thanks to edge computing which pushes resources to the edge, the goals with lower latency can be well satisfied. However, in actual scenarios especially under dynamic edge computing networks, changes exist in resources, including computing, bandwidth, and nodes. Meanwhile, data packets (or flow) among collaborative tasks/components of a service can also not be conserved. These characteristics lead the service reliability hard to be guaranteed and make existing reliability evaluation methods no longer accurate. To study the effect of distributed and collaborative service deployment strategies under such background, we propose a reliability evaluation method (REMR). We first look for the solution set which can meet the time constraints. Then, we calculate the reliability of service supported by the solution set based on the principle of inclusion–exclusion with distributions of available transmission bandwidth and computing resources. Finally, we provide an illustrative example with several real-world data sets to make REMR easy to follow. To make REMR more reliable, we also propose and implement a Monte Carlo simulation method. Experiments prove that the reliability calculated by REMR is nearly the same as the simulation results and both the latencies and the jitters are also at a lower level.

Promotive and risk factors for children's mental health-Finnish municipal policymakers' and leading officeholders' views.

Findings on children's mental health promotion at the policy level are scarce, and the perceptions of the municipal administration on factors affecting children's mental health have not been reported. This study describes the perspectives of policymakers and leading officeholders on promotive and risk factors for children's mental health in a socioecological context. The perspectives of Finnish policymakers (n = 15) and officeholders (n = 10) in municipalities were examined using semi-structured interviews. The data were analyzed using inductive content analysis and were categorized according to the five levels of a socioecological model of health promotion: public policy, community, organizational, interpersonal and individual levels. The public policy level emerged strongly in the findings, specifically strategic planning and implementation challenges related to the promotion of children's mental health in the municipality and state administration. At the community level, environmental factors promoting children's mental health as well as risk factors were described. The organizational level consisted of support, requirements and development needs in children's services. The importance of family and close networks at the interpersonal level, as well as the individual basis of mental health, were also evident. The integration and better collaboration of child and family services, the use of child rights impact assessment in political decision-making, and financial support from the state could contribute to improving strategic planning to support children's mental health at the municipal level.

Guest Editorial Multi-Tier Computing for Next Generation Wireless Networks—Part II

Multi-tier computing effectively enables flexible computation and communication resource sharing by offloading computation-intensive tasks to nearby servers along the cloud-to-thing continuum. In essence, multi-tier computing networks can distribute computing, storage, and communication functions anywhere between the cloud and the endpoint to take full advantage of the resources available along this continuum, thus extending the traditional cloud computing architecture to the edge of the network. With multi-tier computing, some application component processing, such as delay-sensitive components, can take place at the edge of the network, while other components, such as time-tolerant and computation-intensive components, can be performed in the cloud. To best meet user requirements, centralized cloud computing with extensive resources, secure environments, and powerful algorithms is still needed, but also must be complemented by distributed fog and edge computing with shared resources, accessible environments, and simple algorithms for real-time decision-making. Given heterogeneous computing resources and collaborative service architectures, future multi-tier computing networks will be capable of supporting a full range of computing and networking services for different environments and applications. Multi-tier computing enables low-latency processing by allowing data to be processed at the network edge close to end devices. It also facilitates the distribution of fog/edge nodes to collect data from end devices. Therefore, multi-tier computing effectively complements the cloud computing architecture.

Collaboration Tiredness Aware Manufacturing Service Collaboration Incentive and Optimization

Manufacturing service collaboration (MSC) provides a low cost, high efficiency, and good quality collaboration diagram on Industrial Internet Platforms. However, some stakeholders areunwilling to participate in MSC continuously due to their short-term dissatisfaction outbursts or long-term dissatisfaction accumulation with MSC. To describe the aforementioned status of stakeholders, collaboration tiredness is first defined and its causes and impacts on MSC are analyzed. To avoid massive loss of stakeholders on the platform, it is urgent to study stimulus methods to improve their satisfaction. In this article, long-term dynamic utility models are established to depict changes in stakeholder satisfaction, including short-term utility models and long-term utility updating criteria. Then, an incentive strategy is proposed, which aims at stimulating the collaboration willingness of consumers with collaboration tiredness. Once consumers with collaboration tiredness are detected through Bayesian thresholds, utility references would be generated. Then, to reach the utility references, MSC optimization would be continuously provoked to generate new plans through the improved memetic algorithm. Finally, experiments verify the effectiveness of the proposed incentive strategy from a long-term perspective.

Resource saving and carbon footprint reduction potential of urban symbiosis strategy in express packaging waste recycling network

The booming express delivery industry corresponds to the environmental challenges caused by massive express packaging waste (EPW). An efficient logistics network is necessary link to support EPW recycling. This study, therefore, designed a circular symbiosis network for EPW recycling based on urban symbiosis strategy. The treatment of EPW in this network includes reuse, recycling and replacing. An optimization model with multi-depot collaboration combining material flow analysis and optimization methods was developed and a hybrid non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm-II (NSGA-II) was designed as technical support for designing the circular symbiosis network while quantitatively assessing the economic and environmental benefits of the network. The results show that the designed circular symbiosis option has better resource saving and carbon footprint reduction potential than both the business as usual option and circular symbiosis option without service collaboration. In practice, the proposed circular symbiosis network can save EPW recycling costs and reduce carbon footprint. This study provides a practical guideline for the application of urban symbiosis strategies to help urban green governance and the sustainable development of express companies.

Extreme Adjustments to Telehealth Services among Rural Public Health Nurses during the Covid-19 Pandemic in Padang Indonesia

Objective: During the COVID-19 pandemic, rural community health nurses selected telehealth as a novel approach for providing health service. This research describes the interactions between public health nurses and the health service system concerning telehealth implementation. Method: Qualitative research was conducted on rural community nurses at Community Health Center of Padang, Indonesia. The sample was determined based on data saturation. The data was collected using in-depth interviews with open and semi-structured questions. The findings were analyzed utilizing thematic analysis as the primary focus. Result: An overview of telehealth implementation in rural communities is obtained in terms of device aspects, long-distance communication ethics, communication collaboration, and communication interactions in health services. Conclusion: The study’s finding demonstrate that telehealth assisted extend the reach of rural community health service. Adjusting communication patterns using communication technologies and designing the most influential information for symptom detection and education sessions represented a challenge for nurses

Collaboration and Public Participation for Municipal Growth in Land Economic Development Projects

This study examines the impacts of collaboration and public participation on municipal growth in midsize U.S. municipalities. It specifically looks at the cases of land economic development projects across the nation and how local governments’ population and employment growth are associated with public participation and collaboration. This study employs two methods—a survey of planners and officials and GPT-3 semantic search. Using a survey of planners and elected officials, four individual variables (traditional public participation, online public participation, public service collaboration, and staff regional meetings) related to collaboration and public participation were employed. Additionally, a semantic search approach was used to understand the current trend of public participation methods in real land development cases. The findings show that informal collaboration pushes population and employment growth, but the value of citizen participation is more contentious.

Accessibility Analysis Of Mandai Railway Station To The Transport Network In The Layout Region

Planning the construction or development of the station needs to consider integration with environmental conditions e.g. spatial plans, land use, accessibility, distribution of the population and employment to ensure that they It would be better served by train. More in-depth studies are needed to conducted research on the characteristics of potential demand for Trans Sulawesi train users. Deep management and implementation of Accessibility Optimization to and from station access there needs to be a role of collaboration between local governments. More station area management increasing the need for cooperation of business entities, applying the concept of TOD supported by ease of regulation, and collaborative government services between the central government and local governments that synchronize policies spatial planning, transportation, and institutional implementation of TOD.

A Flexible and Modular Architecture for Edge Digital Twin: Implementation and Evaluation

IoT systems based on Digital Twins (DTs) — virtual copies of physical objects and systems — can be very effective to enable data-driven services and promote better control and decisions, in particular by exploiting distributed approaches where cloud and edge computing cooperate effectively. In this context, digital twins deployed on the edge represents a new strategic element to design a new wave of distributed cyber-physical applications. Existing approaches are generally focused on fragmented and domain-specific monolithic solutions and are mainly associated to model-driven, simulative or descriptive visions. The idea of extending the DTs role to support last-mile digitalization and interoperability through a set of general purpose and well-defined properties and capabilities is still underinvestigated. In this paper, we present the novel Edge Digital Twins (EDT) architectural model and its implementation, enabling the lightweight replication of physical devices providing an efficient digital abstraction layer to support the autonomous and standard collaboration of things and services. We model the core capabilities with respect to the recent definition of the state of the art, present the software architecture and a prototype implementation. Extensive experimental analysis shows the obtained performance in multiple IoT application contexts and compares them with that of state-of-the-art approaches.

Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Test and Lifestyle Questionnaire Analysis of Body Mass Index and Body Fat Percentage in a Large Korean Population

Background: Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) genetic testing provides genetic risk to consumers and motivates consumers to take care of their own customized health care. In 2018, we developed and provided a DTC genetic testing service (GENESTART™) in collaboration with Herbalife Korea Co. Ltd. Methods: The analyzed dataset consisted of the body fat percentage (BFP), body mass index (BMI), 31 genetic polymorphism genotypes, and responses to 19 questionnaire items of 24,447 individuals. The genetic main effects for BFP and BMI were examined by linear regression analysis, and the interaction effects were examined using a generalized linear model that controlled age and sex as covariates. Results: In the case of BFP, the sample average was 31.47% overall, 24.76% for men, and 32.79% for women, showing that men had an average BFP that was 8 percentage points lower than that of women. The average BMI was 25.38 overall, 26.45 for men, and 25.17 for women, showing that men had an average BMI of 1.2 kg/m2 higher than that of women. The FTO and MC4R genes, well-known obesity markers, showed a significant correlation with both phenotypes, and the BDNF gene, which is related to stress obesity, showed a highly significant association with BMI but only a weak association with BFP. Among the remaining genes, TRIB1, ABCA1, MYL2, G6PC, GCKR, GLIS3, CYP17A1, HECTD4, and NT5C2 genes showed significant associations with the obesity-related phenotypes. In this study, we found four interaction results for BFP (ABO and fruits, CYP1A2 and sugary foods, FTO and muscle exercise, MC4R and vitamins) and five interactions for BMI (MC4R and proteins, CSK and fruits, MC4R and calcium, DGKB and calcium, CSK and water). Conclusions: This study is expected to enable the provision of personalized and accurate solutions for BFP and BMI management to customers who have undergone genetic testing.

"An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure": Proposal for a Social Prescribing Strategy for Obesity Prevention and Improvement in Health and Well-being.

Social and behavioral determinants of health are increasingly recognized as central to effective person-centered intervention in clinical practice, disease management, and public health. Accordingly, social prescribing (SP) has received increased attention in recent times. The rampant global prevalence of obesity indicates that the customary, reductionistic, and disease-oriented biomedical approach to health service delivery is inadequate/ineffective at arresting the spread and mitigating the damaging consequences of the condition. There is an urgent need to shift the focus from reactive downstream disease-based treatments to more proactive, upstream, preventive action. In essence, this requires more effort to affect the paradigm shift from the traditional "biomedical approach of care" to a "biopsychosocial model" required to arrest the increasing prevalence of obesity. To this end, an SP approach, anchored in systems thinking, could be an effective means of moderating prevalence and consequences of obesity at a community level. The proposed SP intervention has the following three key objectives: (1) build a sustainable program for Circular Head based on SP, peer education, and health screening to minimize the incidence of obesity and related lifestyle diseases; (2) increase service and workforce connectivity and collaboration and initiate the introduction of new services and activities for obesity prevention and community health promotion; and (3) enhance health and well-being and minimize preventable adverse health outcomes of obesity and related lifestyle diseases through enhancement of food literacy and better nutrition, enhancement of physical literacy and habitual personal activity levels, and improvement of mental health, community connectedness, and reduction of social isolation. This paper describes a prospective SP strategy aimed at obesity prevention in Circular Head, a local government area in Northwest (NW) Tasmania. SP is a prominent strategy used in the Critical Age Periods Impacting the Trajectory of Obesogenic Lifestyles Project, which is an initiative based in NW Tasmania focused on assessing obesity prevention capacity. A social prescription model that facilitates the linkage of primary health screening with essential health care, education, and community resources through a dedicated "navigator" will be implemented. Four interlinked work packages will be implemented as part of the initial plan with each either building on existing resources or developing new initiatives. A multimethod approach to triangulate insights from quantitative and qualitative research that enables the assessment of impact on individuals, community groups, and the health care system will be implemented within the initial pilot phase of the project. Literature is replete with rhetoric advocating complex system approaches to curtail obesity. However, real-life examples of whole-of-systems interventions operationalized in ways that generate relevant evidence or effective policies are rare. The diverse approach for primary prevention of obesity-related lifestyle diseases and strategies for improvement of health and well-being described in this instance will contribute toward closing this evidence gap. PRR1-10.2196/41280.