INTRODUCTION Globally, life expectancy together with multimorbidity and chronic diseases are increasing. This leads to a growing demand for care and hence for healthcare personnel and nurses. To meet this demand, healthcare workers from abroad are increasingly hired. The nurses' workplace in general is characterized by physically and psychologically demanding tasks, while that of migrant and mi...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Human development index (HDI) is extensively used to measure the standard of living of a country. India made a study progress in the HDI value. Extreme poverty is concentrated in rural areas of northern States while income growth has been dynamic in southern States and urban areas. This study was undertaken to assess the trends in HDI, human poverty index (HPI) and incid...

ion in Situation Calculus Action Theories Bita Banihashemi York University Toronto, Canada [email protected] Giuseppe De Giacomo Sapienza Università di Roma Roma, Italy [email protected] Yves Lespérance York University Toronto, Canada [email protected]

This article presents a situation calculus formalism featuring events as primary and the usual actions as a special case. Events that are not actions are called internal events and actions are called external events. The effects of both kinds of events are given by effect axioms of the usual kind. The actions are assumed to be performed by an agent as is usual in situation calculus. An internal...

Imposing a markovian condition on the situation calculus enables the embedding of situation calculus theories into the DEVS (discrete event system speciication) modelling and simulation framework. DEVS has an algebraic formalism relying on classical systems theory, and has been used to good eeect in practical domains. The demonstrated correspondence between the situation calculus and DEVS is ba...

We present a formal model of argumentation based on situation calculus which captures both the logical and the procedural aspects of argumentation processes. The logic is used to determine what is accepted by each agent participating in the discussion and by the group as a whole, on the basis of the speech acts performed during argumentation. Argumentation protocols, also called rules of order,...