Previous case-based reasoning research makes a compelling case for the importance of CBR systems determining the system’s confidence in its conclusions, and has developed useful analyses of how characteristics of individual cases and the case base as a whole influence confidence. This paper argues that in systems which perform case adaptation, an important additional indicator for solution conf...

For a very impaired population needing multiple interrelated services, the case management approach used by On Lok Senior Health Services in San Francisco, California, produces a responsive, flexible service system. Case management in On Lok's consolidated model has three key characteristics: (1) a true multidisciplinary team of medical as well as nonmedical personnel who separately assess, the...

In a system where noncooperative agents share a common resource, we propose the price of anarchy, which is the ratio between the worst possible Nash equilibrium and the social optimum, as a measure of the effectiveness of the system. Deriving upper and lower bounds for this ratio in a model where several agents share a very simple network leads to some interesting mathematics, results, and open...

The amount and availability of high-quality geo-spatial image data, such as digital satellite and aerial photographs, is increasing dramatically. Task-based management of such visual information and associated knowledge is a central concern for organisations that rely on digital imagery. We are developing geo-spatial knowledge management techniques that employ case-based reasoning as the core m...

INTRODUCTION Integrating care is a developing feature of provincial health delivery in Canada for those with chronic conditions. The purposes of this project were to review the conceptual understandings underlying integrated care, examine the features of models of cost-effective care for the elderly, and then ascertain to what extent Canadian provinces were implementing these features. METHOD...

Software testing of software application is more complex and critical than conventional software testing. This paper presents an approach to the Estimation of Testing Effort using Test Case Point Analysis Test Case Point Analysis is a tool to estimate the effort required to test a software project, based on the number of use cases and the other features of object-orientation used in software de...

The existing characteristics of the wireless networks nowadays, urgently impose the exploitation of flexible networking solutions that will offer increased efficiency in resource utilization and application Quality of Service (QoS) provisioning and at the same time will reduce the energy consumption and achieve green targets. In this respect, Operatorgoverned Opportunistic Networks (ONs), which...

OBJECTIVES Various healthcare interventions have been launched targeting the growing population of older people. The objective of this study was to investigate the of a case management intervention for frail old people (aged 65+ years) effects on healthcare utilization. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study was conducted in a municipality in southern Sweden and included people aged 65+ years who li...

BACKGROUND Complex health systems make it difficult for older persons (75+) with multi-morbidity to achieve continuity of care. Case management could be one way to address this difficulty. Currently, there is a need to extend the knowledge regarding case management as experienced by those utilising the services, namely older persons (75+) with multi-morbidity. The study aimed to explore older p...

This paper studies the feasibility of using transfer learning for process-oriented case-based reasoning. The work introduces a novel approach to transfer workflow cases from a loosely related source domain to a target domain. The idea is to develop a representation mapper based on workflow generalization, workflow abstraction, and structural analogy between the domain vocabularies. The approach...