despite a lot of efforts and investigations worldwide, dnr is still a controversial issue in many countries. in iran although significant achievements are reached in different fields; end of life care is hardly considered as a scientific necessity. development and implementation of clear policies for dnr orders is required to prevent futile prolongation of death, psychological stress to the pat...

A decision maker wants the pool of data at the finger tip while making the decision. In state of the art applications, decision making is no more a centralized process. Distribution of resources is a challenge before the system designers. Besides, for timely analyzing the distributed data, a robust query processing system along with the physical storage with schema definitions are also necessar...

Rubber is one of the major plantation crops cultivated in Sri Lanka. It gives an environmental service apart from its economic potential. To have a continuous supply of rubber, it is vital that the balance between mature and immature rubber stands be maintained in the long run. In order to do this, at least 3% of the total area under rubber needs to be re-planted annually. However, in the recen...

We present Mobility Reflection, which demonstrates a reflection-based approach for designing mobilityawareness into applications. We propose an architecture that gives an application the ability to “reflect” upon its current behavior and to modify that behavior to adapt to changing network conditions caused by its host roaming in a mobile data network. The proposed architecture tailors dynamic ...

Iterative “learning” by distributed control agents has been proposed for power system decision making. Such decision making can achieve agreement among control agents while preserving privacy. The iterative decision making process may interact with power system dynamics. In such cases, coupled dynamics are expected. The objective of this paper is to propose a modeling approach that can conduct ...

The revitalisation of the Australian Manufacturing Industry depends on the introduction of new techniques of manufacture. Decisions concerning the implementation of new techniques of flexible manufacturing , including robotics, are discussed in regard to the effects on the work-force The discussion extends to an examination of the participative role of trade unions in the decisionmaking process...

Provenance allows decision-makers to evaluate the importance of pieces of data. PROV is the standardised model of provenance for use on the web, particularly suited for situations where data is generated by systems under distributed control, such as in coalition operations. If human decision-makers are to make effective use of provenance data, they need to understand it, and this work establish...

Open source projects are typically organized in a distributed and decentralized manner. These factors strongly determine the processes followed and constrain the types of tools that can be utilized. This paper explores how distribution and decentralization have affected processes and tools in existing open source projects with the goals of summarizing the lessons learned and identifying opportu...

The complexity of spatial decision-making makes it difficult for individual organization to deal effectively with decision making. Difficulty in linking data, analysis tools and models across organization is one of the barriers to be overcome in developing integrated spatial decision-making. By facilitating an inter-organizational decision-making process through information exchange, knowledge ...