Identification of prognostic subgroups is of key clinical interest at the early stages of chronic disease. The aim of this study is to examine whether representation of physicians' expert knowledge in a simple heuristic model can improve data mining methods in prognostic assessments of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Five rheumatology consultants' experiences of clinical data patterns ...

Using a new dataset that takes advantage of a novel survey design, I accomplish a joint estimation of citizens’ policy views and legislators’ ideal points on the same scale. I analyze several important questions about people’s preferences, perceptions and voting behavior using the case of the 2004 presidential election. In contrast to many earlier works, I show that most people do in fact have ...

Patterns are a popular means to document design knowledge in different fields of application, including HCI. Accordingly, a large number of different HCI pattern formats have been suggested. However, relatively little is said about how to systematically identify such patterns. In order to make the process of identifying patterns more transparent and comprehensible, I apply a usability inspectio...

The effects of attitudes on social memory have not been determined. Some studies have shown attitudes to serve as a heuristi for estimating an answer about past behavior. When an attitud. heuristic is applied to recall of an event, "memory" will appear to be "superior," to the extent that the subject's inferences and constructions coincide with what actually happened. This study examined whethe...

This paper tests two heuristic approaches by applying them to the magnetic hysteresis model parameter identification. Both Preisach and Jiles-Atherton hysteresis models have been used. The implemented investigated heuristics are genetic algorithm and simulated annealing. Both the heuristic algorithms efforts the knowledge of the B-H experimental points of the hysteresis loop to be modeled accor...

Swarm intelligence-based metaheuristic algorithms have attracted the attention of research community and been exploited for effectively solving different optimization problems engineering, science, technology. This paper considers parameter estimation control autoregressive (CAR) model by applying a novel swarm algorithm called Aquila optimizer (AO). The tuning AO is performed statistically on ...

0. Introduction T h e id en tifica tio n o f n am es an d abbrev ia tions in a ra w te x t is a n im p o rtan t sub ac tiv ity in the "to k en iza tio n " p ro cess , i.e . th e id en tifica tion o f th e b as ic u n its o f th e tex t: parag raphs, sen ten ces a n d w ords. T o k en iza tio n is in its tu rn an im p o rtan t su b ac tiv ity in th e "norm alization" o f tex ts , th e to ta lity...