Restructuring in the power industry is followed by splitting different parts and creating a competition between purchasing and selling sections. As a consequence, through an active participation in the energy market, the service provider companies and large consumers create a context for overcoming the problems resulted from lack of demand side participation in the market. The most prominent ch...

This paper proposes a framework for online service applications based on Service Science which identifies and enables a better understanding of the different issues faced by online service designers, engineers, and delivery personnel. The application of the Service Science framework is made possible by carefully distinguishing online service applications not only from traditional personal softw...

Background Training courses in integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI) have been conducted for health workers for nearly one and half decades in Afghanistan. The objective of the training courses is to improve quality of care in terms of health workers communication skills and clinical performance when they provide health services for under-5 children in public healthcare facili...

Graphplan and heuristic state space planners such as HSP-R and UNPOP are currently two of the most effective approaches for solving classical planning problems. These approaches have hither-to been seen as largely orthogonal. In this paper, we show that the planning graph structure that Graphplan builds in polynomial time, provides a rich substrate for deriving more effective heuristics for sta...

Title of thesis: INTERACTION BETWEEN A SERVICE PROVIDER AND CONTENT PROVIDERS AND SOCIAL EFFICIENCY Ramy ElDelgawy, Master of Science, 2014 Thesis directed by: Professor Richard J. La Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Maryland, College Park It is unclear how the introduction of “fast lanes” would affect the evolution of the Internet. While this is with no doubt an ...

background: controlled ovarian hyper stimulation coh/iui represents a therapy applicable to a wide variety of infertility diagnosis with no significant mechanical distortion of pelvic viscera. identified variables influenced in intra uterine insemination include: age, cause of infertility, sperm number, motility and normal percentage, use of gonadotropine and number of attempts at iui. the role...

Abstract. We outline an approach for adapting software agent conversations between a mobile client and a service provider. The adaptation takes advantage of the context information characterizing the client’s current situation. The service provider takes this context information into account when selecting / creating a suitable interaction protocol for communicating with the client. Both the co...