FIVE STEPS TO RESPONSIBILITY

Responsibility Judgments: Steps towards a formalization

The concept of responsibility refers to different, although related, meanings. Judgments about responsibility, demerit or merit may involve several facets, such as causality, intentionality, awareness of consequences, as well as utility and deontic notions. The proposed approach relies on a recent modeling of causality ascription by agents put in face of a sequence of reported events, on the ba...

Five StepS to improving Security in embedded SyStemS

How to hinder tuberculosis control: five easy steps.

The control of tuberculosis remains an area of interest and concern. Some recent Lancet papers bring positive news, albeit with important questions left unanswered. Wang and colleagues' longitudinal study1 concluded that tuberculosis prevalence in China was reduced by shifting to the recommended approach based on directly observed treatment, short course (DOTS) for tuberculosis diagnosis and tr...

Five Steps to Text Mining in Biomedical Literature

In this paper we discuss our plans and progress on analysing and integrating various methods of text mining in biomedical literature for a Ph.D project. The framework is a client­based search engine that integrates different machine learning and text mining techniques. For convenience all text mining procedures have been split into five steps, s...

Five Steps to Establish Software Performance Engineering in Your Organization

Most software performance problems are due to fundamental architecture or design problems. Thus they are introduced early in development, but are typically not discovered until late, when they are more difficult and costly to fix. Software Performance Engineering (SPE) is a systematic, quantitative approach for cost-effectively building performance into software systems. It consists of a proces...