The Plan Management Agent PMA is an intel ligent software system that is intended to aid a user in managing a potentially large and complex set of plans Currently under development PMA applies AI technology for modeling and reason ing about plans and processes to the development of automated support for work activities We have developed and implemented algorithms for reasoning about richly expr...

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In this paper we describe a statistical shared plan-based approach to dialog modeling and dialog management. We apply this approach to a corpus of human-human spoken dialogs. We compare the performance of models trained on transcribed and automatically recognized speech, and present ideas for further improving the models.

The need to improve the quality of health care has led to a strong demand for clinical protocols and computer systems supporting both their creation and execution. Current approaches in the planning community concentrate on algorithmic improvements, but mostly fail in medical applications. Planning approaches are based on assumptions like deterministic behavior, which do not hold in medical dom...

Over the last 2 decades, improved understanding of the pathophysiology of heart failure has led to significant progress in the treatment of this syndrome. Nevertheless, heart failure remains a clinical problem of truly epidemic proportions, affecting nearly 5 million people in the United States.1,2 Moreover, the lifetime risk of developing heart failure may be as high as 20%, with an annual inc...

Software configuration management is one of the first requirements to achieve quality in the software process. However, these activities are very difficult to be introduced, mainly in small software companies. This work proposes a software configuration management plan for small software business. In order to accomplish this goal, an empirical research was carried out, using the Goal/ Question/...

A management plan for patients with suspected focal liver lesions which avoids early biopsy includes routine laboratory investigations, ultrasound scanning, and assessment for evidence of extrahepatic metastases and non-hepatic primary tumours. Angiography and computed tomography may also be indicated, and laparotomy or laparoscopy is undertaken to assess any potentially resectable focal liver ...

evaluation of surface water quality is a complex process undertakingmultiple parameters. converting great amount of parameters into a simpler expressionand enabling easy interpretation of data are the main purposes of water quality indices.the main aim of this study is to plan effective water resources management system forkarun river by combination of ccmewqi and geographic information system ...

water is the most essential component for sustaining lives of humans and other living creatures. supplying potable water with adequate residual pressure is a fundamental responsibility of city administration, which they do during normal conditions. but sometimes, abnormal conditions are formed resulting pressure deficient conditions during the daily operations of water distribution networks. th...