Collaborating to Desegregate a “Black” School

Collaborating to manage polypharmacy.

DiNCQUMGP (Divisions National Consortium for the Quality Use of Medicines in General Practice) reports on a collaboration between doctors, pharmaceutical companies, government agencies, and medicine users to manage polypharmacy (prescribing multiple medicines to a patient) amongst older people. We have reported the outcomes of our collaboration (improving the Quality Use of Medicines) elsewhere...

Collaborating to Improve ERP Usability

Anecdotal evidence strongly suggests that enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems have unintuitive user interfaces that hinder usability, frustrate users, and ultimately interfere with their successful adoption and utilization in organizations. Despite the huge costs associated with poorly implemented systems, ERP usability has received little attention from the research community. It is our...

A new approach to using the cubic B-spline functions to solve the Black-Scholes equation

Nowadays, options are common financial derivatives. For this reason, by increase of applications for these financial derivatives, the problem of options pricing is one of the most important economic issues. With the development of stochastic models, the need for randomly computational methods caused the generation of a new field called financial engineering. In the financial engineering the pre...

Black mark for Dalhousie medical school.

Adaptive Collaborating Filtering

In this paper, we study collaborative filters that adapt future recommendations based on feedback (like/dislike) received for past recommendations. We consider a mathematical model where users and items are clustered, and ratings are noisy. We apply sequential decision techniques to study structure of collaborative filters that maximize the time average of the expected ratings. While our previo...