With their deeper procedural knowledge, experts are superior to beginners in solving ill-defined problems. To support beginners, we suggest using a method for presenting complex, heterogeneous data that can serve as a good basis for visualizing its inherent information. To demonstrate this approach, we conducted focus group interviews with temporal data analysts to identify their problem solvin...

This prospective study was designed to identify psychological factors that predict career success in professional adult soccer. Post hoc, two groups were distinguished: (1) Male soccer players who successfully progressed into professional adult soccer (n = 18) and (2) Male soccer players who did not reach this level (n = 47). Differences between the two groups were examined on the basis of data...

In this paper a method for the automated identification of tree species from images of leaves, bark and needles is presented. The automated identification of leaves uses local features to avoid segmentation. For the automated identification of images of the bark this method is compared to a combination of GLCM and wavelet features. For classification a Support Vector machine is used. The needle...

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Lufthansa Technical Training GmbH (LTT) runs training courses for Lufthansa Technik AG and for several other international airlines. It offers about 670 types of courses of which several hundred take place each year. The course-scheduling problem LTT faces is to develop a schedule for the year that maximizes its profit while meeting complex precedence, temporal , and resource-related constraint...

The advertising industry depends on an effective assessment of the impact of advertising as a key performance metric for their products. However, current assessment methods have relied on either indirect inference from observing changes in consumer behavior after the launch of an advertising campaign, which has long cycle times and requires an ad campaign to have already have been launched (oft...

BACKGROUND Despite the widespread availability of computerized decision support systems (CDSSs) in various healthcare settings, evidence on their uptake and effectiveness is still limited. Most barrier studies focus on CDSSs that are aimed at a limited number of decision points within selected small-scale academic settings. The aim of this study was to identify the perceived barriers to using l...