P RACTICE Advisories are systematically developed reports that are intended to assist decision-making in areas of patient care. Advisories provide a synthesis and analysis of expert opinion, clinical feasibility data, open forum commentary, and consensus surveys. Practice Advisories developed by the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) are not intended as standards, guidelines, or absolu...

OpenMP is in the process of adding a tasking model that allows the programmer to specify independent units of work, called tasks, but does not specify how the scheduling of these tasks should be done (although it imposes some restrictions). We have evaluated different scheduling strategies (schedulers and cut-offs) with several applications and we found that work-first schedules seem to have th...

We identify some problems of the evaluation metrics used for the English Lexical Substitution Task of SemEval-2007, and propose alternative metrics that avoid these problems, which we hope will better guide the future development of lexical substitution systems.

A task-based Digital Work Environment (DWE) has been designed and developed at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore to support the Division of Information Studies (DIS) Masters students’ information requirements for their dissertation work. This paper traces the evaluation studies of DWE to gauge the usefulness and effectiveness of its three different approaches to information organisati...

Evaluation of interactive search systems has always been time-consuming and complex, which probably explains the relative low level of interest from IR researchers for this type of evaluation in the past. Yet the limitations of batch-style system evaluations cannot be ignored anymore. We present some case studies of evaluations in interactive settings. Several of these evaluations offer valuabl...

This poster presents a proposed Clinical Tasks Ontology (PECTO) designed to evaluate effects of technologies on human performance under controlled conditions, such as clinical simulation scenarios (CSS), across multiple clinical domains including prehospital care. In recent years there has been an explosion of technologies, including Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) that are d...