Change doesn't come without pain, but the suffering caused by medication errors is justifi ca-tion enough to embark on the type of sweeping institutional reforms called for by an Institute of Medicine panel, several experts said. Electronic prescribing, electronic health records, and computerized treatment protocols are indispensable tools for reducing medication errors, according to the IOM re...

The Data Audit Framework provides organisations with the means to identify, locate and assess the current management of their research data assets. Armed with this information they are in a position to improve ongoing data management. In this article we share our experiences of implementing the Framework and report back on the kind of data issues researchers commonly face. We also indicate how ...

In the context of case-based reasoning (CBR) methodology, better understanding of the conditions under which CBR systems are used has the potential to increase our understanding of how uncertainty affects the overall quality of these systems. Our ultimate goal is to determine what properties exist and how these properties may be used to improve the utility of a CBR system, as well as methods of...

In this paper, we use Kolmogorov complexity and compression algorithms to study DOS-DNA (DOS: de-ned ordered sequence). This approach gives quantitative and qualitative explanations of the regularities of apparently regular regions. We present the problem of the coding of approximate multiple tandem repeats in order to obtain compression. Then we describe an algorithm that allows to nd eecientl...

Knowledge integration is the process of incorporating new information into a body of existing knowledge (Murray and Porter, 1989). This process is a cycle of knowledge acquisition, formulation, recognition, elaboration, and adaptation. Knowledge acquisition is the act of gathering facts. These facts must be formulated into the language of the underlying representation of some knowledge base. Re...

Fuzzy logic adds to bivalent logic an important capability—a capability to reason precisely with imperfect information. Imperfect information is information which in one or more respects is imprecise, uncertain, incomplete, unreliable, vague or partially true. In fuzzy logic, results of reasoning are expected to be provably valid, or p-valid for short. Extended fuzzy logic adds an equally impor...

The detectability of planetesimal impacts on imaged exoplanets can be measured using Jupiter during the 1994 comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 events as a proxy. By integrating the whole planet flux with and without impact spots, the effect of the impacts at wavelengths from 2 4 μm is revealed. Jupiter’s reflected light spectrum in the near-infrared is dominated by its methane opacity including a deep ban...

The foundation of a generic modelling tool is its flexible diagramming facility. The paper proposes a universal graphical editor definition language based on logical metamodel extended by presentation classes. Some more advanced diagram definition facilities such as patterns and diagram cores are also introduced. Implementation principles of this language, based on Graphical Diagramming Engine ...

This paper describes the eXtensible Markup Language (XML) Schema Definition (XSD) for interoperability of Modbus devices. This system uses a common set of XML elements to describe Modbus input and output functions. The goal of the developed technology is to facilitate the rapid, cost-effective retrofit integration of building automation systems by exposing the functions of sensors, actuators, a...

The Sherrington–Kirkpatrick model of spin glasses, the Hopfield model of neural networks and the Ising spin glass are all models of binary data belonging to the one-parameter exponential family with quadratic sufficient statistic. Under bare minimal conditions, we establish the √ N-consistency of the maximum pseudolikelihood estimate of the natural parameter in this family, even at critical tem...