results in this study, a significant relation was established between the three areas or domains of learning: 1) knowledge domain (learning the theoretical basis of necessity-based training); 2) motivational domain (how to motivate collection, classification, etc. and 3) the technical domain (how trauma experts and specialists can recognize and classify needs practically. our findings suggest t...

This paper outlines a prototypical work bench which offers semantically enhanced analytical capabilities to the business analyst. The business case for such an environment is outlined and user scenario development used to illustrate system requirements. Based upon ideas from meta-discourse and exploiting advances within the fields of ontology engineering, annotation, natural language processing...

We review different methods for simulating credit migrations in a nonparametric and discrete or continuous-time Markov chain framework. We suggest the application of a factor model approach in combination with the use of copulas for the joint dynamics of credit rating changes. While there are several applications of copulas in credit risk for modeling joint defaults, it lacks of the same intere...

In a dynamic, information and technology-driven society, librarians can create new roles by assessing changes in their environment, the potential effect and ways to reposition themselves. Scenario building, literature reviews, situation analysis, speculation and forecasting may be used. Librarians have a good idea of what they can offer, but are often unable to reposition themselves in time. Re...

This work studies linear elliptic problems under uncertainty. The major emphasis is on the deterministic treatment of such uncertainty. In particular, this work uses the Worst Scenario approach for the characterization of uncertainty on functional outputs (quantities of physical interest). Assuming that the input data belong to a given functional set, eventually infinitely dimensional, we propo...

it seems that success in municipal wastes management has a detectable relationship with citizens' participation and social mechanisms. so, the present study has done for recognition of systematic relations of effective social parameters on municipal solid waste administration. data have collected in two phase to fill of questionnaires including awareness assessment of msw office's per...

Finding the right software is often hindered by different criteria as well as by technology changes. We performed an analytic hierarchy process (AHP) analysis using Expert Choice to determine which data mining package was best suitable for us. Deliberating a dozen alternatives and objectives led us to a series of pair-wise comparisons. When further synthesizing the results, Expert Choice helped...

Channel selection is a fundamental problem in Cognitive Radio Networks (CRNs). One basic channel assignment problem is rendezvous, which investigates how secondary users can establish a connection by selecting a common available working channel in the same time slot. Rendezvous is the prerequisite for communication, which however is challenging especially in a dynamic spectrum environment. Link...

The present thesis deals with the inclusion of fire risk considerations into forest planning in Catalonia (North-East Spain). The first part of the thesis focused on the modeling the susceptibility of different kinds of forest to fire (Studies I, II, III and IV), and the second part on the inclusion of the acquired knowledge about fire risk into forest planning systems (Studies V and VI). The m...