In the past, little attention has been paid to critiquing in domains in which reasoning, planning and action are interleaved, or in which actions can change the agent's knowledge in ways that aaect subsequent reasoning and planning. This paper discusses the demands these characteristics make on a critiquing system. The goal-directed approach to critiquing that I am developing interacts with a p...

Questions have been raised about basic life support (BLS) training in medical education. This article addresses the research evidence behind why BLS training is inadequate and suggests recommendations for improving BLS training for medical students.

In this contribution, a protocol for secure data gathering is introduced that utilises existing e-voting protocols to gather data records instead of votes. The protocol relies on two distinct authorities for the secure gathering of data and makes use of a token for each database record, making unencrypted data accessible only to the system participants. The protocol is suitable for decision sup...

In this paper, the framework for a decision support tool for planning bills of material is presented. This tool generates a set of modular planning bills of material from the manufacturing bills of material for a company. The tool attempts to consolidate together options in a product family which are specific. The force with which the tool attempts to consolidate two or more options together is...

background: to test if social support and ethnicity mediate/moderate the association between religion involvement and subjective health in the united states. methods: this is a secondary analysis of national survey of american life, 2003. hierarchical regression was fit to a national household probability sample of adult african americans ( n = 3570), caribbean blacks ( n = 1621), and whites ( ...

background nurses are at risk for symptoms of secondary traumatic stress (sts). the role of social support and mindfulness in predicting sts is important among nurses. this study was performed to determine the prevalence of the symptoms of sts and the role of mindfulness and social support in predicting the sts in iranian nurses in malayer. methods using a cross-sectional analytic research desi...

Effective planning of urban building sites is essential because they are often a source of various kinds of nuisances. In this paper, we present a decision support system for the public space administrator in order to manage building sites nuisances efficiently. The decision support offered through the system is a hybrid approach of two categories. In the first, the decision maker is assisted b...

We propose a novel naturalistic decision support system for complex fault management procedures onboard modern aircraft. Two experiments involving 13 civil pilots are presented. The results show that the system proposed improves pilots’ decision accuracy, decision performance and situation awareness, whilst reducing mental workload and complacency to system advisories.