background: excellence and quality models are comprehensive methods for improving the quality of healthcare. the aim of this study was to design excellence and quality model for training centers of primary health care using delphi method. methods: in this study, delphi method was used. first, comprehensive information were collected using literature review. in extracted references, 39 models we...

This paper discusses a framework for learning based on information theoretic criteria. A novel algorithm based on Renyi’s quadratic entropy is used to train, directly from a data set, linear or nonlinear mappers for entropy maximization or minimization. We provide an intriguing analogy between the computation and an information potential measuring the interactions among the data samples. We als...

The aim of the paper is to present a conceptual approach to identification of nonlinear stochastic systems based on information measures of dependence. In the paper, an identification problem statement using the information criterion under rather general conditions is proposed. It is based on a parameterized description of the system model under study combined with a corresponding method of est...

Attention is focused in this paper on the approximation problem of system identii-cation with information theoretic criteria. For a class of problems it is shown that the criterion of mutual information rate is identical to the criterion of exponential-of-quadratic cost and to H 1 entropy. In addition the relation between the likelihood function and divergence is explored. As a consequence of t...

The deviance information criterion (DIC) introduced by Spiegelhalter et al. (2002) for model assessment and model comparison is directly inspired by linear and generalised linear models, but it is open to different possible variations in the setting of missing data models, depending in particular on whether or not the missing variables are treated as parameters. In this paper, we reassess the c...

This paper is the first work product of Joint Task 1 (JT01) defined in the Joint Workplan for cooperation on Security of Information Systems [1]. The objectives of JT01 are to: (a) Establish a common set of security functionality classes, representative of international and regional market-driven needs. (b) Develop a common approach to the creation of profiles from these security functionality ...

Many algorithms for finding community structure in graphs search for a partition that maximizes modularity. However, recent work has identified two important limitations of modularity as a community quality criterion: a resolution limit; and a bias towards finding equal-sized communities. Information-theoretic approaches that search for partitions that minimize description length are a recent a...

The Internet presents a huge amount of useful information which is usually formatted for its users, which makes it difficult to extract relevant data from various sources. Therefore, the availability of robust, flexible Information Extraction (IE) systems that transform the Web pages into program-friendly structures will become a great necessity. Although many approaches for data extraction fro...