CWDM: A case-based diabetes management web system
- Authors: Nguyen, Linh Hoang , Sun, Zhaohao , Stranieri, Andrew , Firmin, Sally
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: 24th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, 4-6th December, 2013 p. 1-10
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- Description: Treatment refers to the therapy to treat a disease or a health issue. Treatment in this situation is similar to medical treatment which mainly uses medicines in an attempt to relieve the pain or even stop the disease. However, medicines themselves could not entirely cure the disease (in this case, diabetes), the patients will need more intervention which will be introduced in the next section. In most of documents for diabetic treatment, insulin therapy may be the main factor, however it would seem that diabetic patient needs more than just insulin. Therefore, TCM – traditional Chinese medicine – is recommended in the diabetic treatment as a lot of its remedies not only adjust insulin but also maintain good health for the patients. This section presents some of the TCM remedies to treat diabetes. As mentioned, diabetic patients are treated by lifestyle intervention and insulin therapy according to their diabetic status. The prevalence of diabetes and its complications leads to the requirement of treatment and care plan. Guidelines for T2D treatment indicated the following primary areas: lifestyle improvement which involves at least two and half hours of physical operations every week, dietary plan which decreases the fat intake, and weight management which requires weight loss approximately 7% of the baseline weight; cardiovascular risk factor reduction by managing blood pressure, cholesterol level, control smoking status, hypertension; and blood glucose management such as mono-therapy methods using oral medications to reduce A1c levels (Ripsin, Kang, & Urban, 2009). Self-monitoring of blood glucose levels for T2D treatment is also suggested. The self-monitoring of blood glucose method is recommended because it could enhance the patients’ self-consciousness of managing their diabetic status and require greater behaviours, responsibilities and efforts. Besides, this method is cost-effective in long term for diabetic complications treatment (Szymborska-Kajaneka, Psureka, Heseb, & Strojek, 2009). Another related study recommended that for T2D patients who are using insulin, self-monitoring of blood glucose should be carried out daily at least three times; and for patients without insulin usage the frequency of blood glucose self-monitoring should be adjusted individually (Varanauskiene, 2008). Both studies indicate that there have been controversies whether self-monitoring of blood glucose is useful for T2D patients without insulin treatment. We recommend traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) as the major medicine for treating diabetes according to a report of natural Chinese medicines (Li, Zheng, Bukuru, & Kimpe, 2004) which indicates the results from many cases in various research and medical activities.
A technique for ranking friendship closeness in social networking services
- Authors: Sun, Zhaohao , Yearwood, John , Firmin, Sally
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: 24th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS) p. 1-9
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- Description: The concept of friend and friendship are critical to both theoretical and empirical studies of social relations, social media and social networks. Measuring the closeness among friends is a big issue for developing online social networking services (SNS) such as Facebook. This paper will address this issue by proposing a technique for ranking friendship closeness in SNS. The technique consists of an algorithm for ranking need-driven friendship closeness and an algorithm for behaviour-based friendship closeness in online social networking sites. The former is based on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, while the latter is based on behaviours of users on Facebook and TOPSIS. Examples provided illustrate the viability of the proposed algorithms. The research in this paper shows that ranking friendship closeness will facilitate understanding of needs and behaviours of friends and of friendships in SNS. The proposed approach will facilitate research and development of social media, social commerce, social networks, and SN
A strategic perspective on management intelligent systems
- Authors: Sun, Zhaohao , Firmin, Sally
- Date: 2012
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Management Intelligent Systems : First International Symposium p. 3-14
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- Description: Management intelligent systems (MIS) is a new paradigm integrating management with intelligent systems. What are the core components of MIS? What are intelligent systems for management? How can management integrate with intelligent systems? All these questions remain open in an MIS context. This article addresses these issues by examining MIS from a strategic perspective. More specifically, this article first examines management in information systems, management for intelligent systems and intelligent systems for management. Then this article provides a strategic model for MIS encompassing core components of MIS, through integrating main management functions with intelligent systems taking into account decision making of managers in organizations. The approach proposed in this article will facilitate the research and development of MIS, management and intelligent systems and information systems. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.
Business analytics-based enterprise information systems
- Authors: Sun, Zhaohao , Strang, Kenneth , Firmin, Sally
- Date: 2017
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Journal of Computer Information Systems Vol. 57, no. 2 (2017), p. 169-178
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- Description: Big data analytics and business analytics are a disruptive technology and innovative solution for enterprise development. However, what is the relationship between business analytics, big data analytics, and enterprise information systems (EIS)? How can business analytics enhance the development of EIS? How can analytics be incorporated into EIS? These are still big issues. This article addresses these three issues by proposing ontology of business analytics, presenting an analytics service-oriented architecture (ASOA) and applying ASOA to EIS, where our surveyed data analysis showed that the proposed ASOA is viable for developing EIS. This article then examines incorporation of business analytics into EIS through proposing a model for business analytics service-based EIS, or ASEIS for short. The proposed approach in this article might facilitate the research and development of EIS, business analytics, big data analytics, and business intelligence.
Integrating online social networks with e-Commerce : A CBR approach
- Authors: Sun, Zhaohao , Firmin, Sally , Yearwood, John
- Date: 2012
- Type: Text , Conference proceedings
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- Description: Integrating online social networks (OSN) with e-commerce is a part of Enterprise 2.0 and social media and is of significance for development of e-commerce and online social networking services. However, how to integrate online social networks including Facebook with e-commerce is still a big issue for companies. Case based reasoning (CBR) has a number of successful applications in e-commerce and web services. This article examines how to integrate OSN with e-commerce, how to integrate CBR with e-commerce and how to integrate CBR with OSN. This article also proposes a CBR architecture for integrating online social networks with e-commerce using CBR as an intelligent intermediary. One of the research findings indicates that the principle of CBR is a useful marketing strategy for integrating e-commerce and OSN. The approach proposed in this research will facilitate the development of e-commerce, Enterprise 3.0 and online social networking services. Sun, Firmin, & Yearwood © 2012.
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