This essay has the purpose of presenting the results of a work performed as part of Third International Business Process Intelligence Challenge. This challenge presents an event log from Volvo IT Belgium Company related with incident and problem management, focusing on a couple process owner ́s questions. The authors of this document present the analysis realized applying different kind of tools...

Emotions are the subject of study in many research areas, including psychology, physiology and artificial intelligence. However, there is not yet a general computational definition for emotions and many of the related works in artificial intelligence are based on uncertain assumptions about the origin, features , and applications of emotions. Therefore, we direct our studies toward achieving a ...

We present results of a household-level survey on behaviors regarding refuses in the home waste-waters network. Interpreting survey results in a panel-data logit results show that most socio-economic and public good-related respondent’s characteristics do not play a significant role in explaining choices to discard in the home waste-waters network. The only significant regressor, apart from the...

Queues are not only a nuisance in one’s life. Queues can also attract potential customers to a service or product whose utility is not well known prior to the purchasing decision. In addition, for some goods, it is difficult for the seller to communicate precisely the information that allows determining the utility of the good to its potential customer base2. Think of a dinner at a restaurant, ...

The birth or presence of a child with hearing defect provides unique and different challenges for family. However, in this situation all family members are hurt and their functions are impaired, but the mother, due to the traditional role of caregiver for these children to have more responsibility, more psychosocial problems may be encountered. The assumption is that the problems associated wit...

Security administration is an uphill task to implement in an enterprise network providing secured corporate services. With the slew of patches being released by Microsoft, HP and other vendors, system administrators require a barrage of tools for analyzing the risk due to these vulnerabilities. In addition to this, criticalities in patching some end hosts (eg., in hospitals) raises serious secu...

Behavior trees are a recent development in artificial intelligence for computer games. Their application has been proposed to increase modularity of an unmanned aerial vehicle’s control system. This paper first describes advantages of behavior trees for use in mission management. The paper then points out research towards their deployment. Finally, newly developed transient tasks are introduced...