Asbru is a complex formal language developed to represent clinical guidelines and protocols which are timeand processoriented. To facilitate and support the modeling in Asbru methods and tools are required. In this paper, we provide a systematic analysis of the various plan components and their temporal interdependences (written in Asbru) to infer heuristics for our methods and tools. We develo...

Wildlife campaigners are hoping to do a deal with the burgeoning oil palm industry in Borneo in the hope of creating a forest framework to save the threatened orang-utan. Palm oil companies and the Sabah government in Borneo have agreed to a project to create wildlife corridors that will link forest areas and create a network of safe havens for the ape. Palm oil companies and the Sabah governme...

E S I N C E it got under way, the Farmington Plan has been regarded, and has repeatedly been cited, as one of the most important, most enlightened, and most hopeful instances of interlibrary cooperation in the history of American libraries. Throughout its ten years of operation, however, there has been a relatively small but persistent stream of complaints from participating libraries together ...

This paper discusses plan presentation, the second phase in usertailored advice giving. Its main task is to determine what knowledge must be provided to ascertain that the user comprehends the plan and is able to perform it, even if he detects unexpected obstacles. Plan presentation is guided by a model of the user’s knowledge and of his capabilities to perform actions in the domain. Finally we...

PHOTOGRAPHY A BIBLIOGRAPHY PLAN

The bin packing problem is a well-studied combinatorial NP-hard problem. In the bin packing problem, a sequence of items are packed into bins, the packed items in a bin do not overlap. The objective is to minimize the number of used bins. The size of each item should be no more than the size of a bin. (Zhang, 2011) The algorithms can be divided into two categories: offline algorithm, requiring ...

This document presents the working plan for a STSM submitted by Jean-Julien Filatriau at InfoMus Lab, DIST-University of Genova, Italy. J-J Filatriau is PhD student at Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL, Belgium), under the co-supervision of Dr. Benoit Macq (UCL) and Dr. Daniel Arfib (LMA-CNRS, Marseille, France). His PhD deals with the gestural control of sonic textures synthesis; from now,...

Decades ago Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis wrote, " We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both. " We now live in what has been christened a " new gilded age. " Wealth in the United States is indeed concentrated in the hands of a few— more so than at any time since the 1920s. In this book I examine the rela...