Toward Comprehensive Decision Support Using Multilevel Flow Modeling

Toward Scalable Clinical Decision Support

In this special issue of the Open Medical Informatics Journal, four papers are presented describing various approaches to the general problem of scaling clinical decision support (CDS) – providing CDS across potentially multiple electronic medical record systems (EMR) in varying clinical practice environments, and the methods of representing, encoding, and sharing knowledge to support such serv...

MODELING OF FLOW NUMBER OF ASPHALT MIXTURES USING A MULTI–KERNEL BASED SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE APPROACH

Flow number of asphalt–aggregate mixtures as an explanatory factor has been proposed in order to assess the rutting potential of asphalt mixtures. This study proposes a multiple–kernel based support vector machine (MK–SVM) approach for modeling of flow number of asphalt mixtures. The MK–SVM approach consists of weighted least squares–support vector machine (WLS–SVM) integrating two kernel funct...

Quantitative flow visualization: toward a comprehensive flow diagnostic tool.

Quantitative flow visualization has many roots and has taken several approaches. The advent of digital image processing has made it practical to extract useful information from every kind of flow image. In a direct approach, the image intensity or color (wavelength or frequency) can be used as an indication of concentration, density and temperature field, or gradients of these scalar fields in ...

Toward Affective Dialogue Modeling using Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes

We propose a novel approach to developing a dialogue model which is able to take into account some aspects of the user’s emotional state and acts appropriately. The dialogue model uses a Partially Observable Markov Decision Process approach with observations composed of the observed user’s emotional state and action. A simple example of route navigation is explained to clarify our approach and ...

Toward a New Comprehensive International Health and Health Care Policy Decision Support Tool