business units and thus not even practiced in a cohesive, coherent manner. In the worst cases, busy business unit executives trade roving bands of developers like Pokémon cards in a fifth-grade classroom (in an attempt to get ahead). Suffice it to say, none of this is good. The disconnect between security and development has ultimately produced software development efforts that lack any sort of...

3 The first few stages of interoperability have laid important groundwork and provide benefits to health organizations worldwide. However, the next level of interoperability desired by many of these organizations requires closer alignment with patient and provider needs.

In this paper we present a new result on evaluating the difference between two dynamical systems. Extending the idea of information theoretic gap developed in [2], we first describe a symmetric version of information gap between dynamical systems. This metric has the advantage of being positive semi-definite and symmetric. A numerical method is developed to compute the symmetric Kullback-Leible...

We propose a theory of feelings about uncertainty that has implications for preferences about acquiring or avoiding information as well as for preferences about exposure to uncertainty (i.e., risk or ambiguity). Our theoretical framework allows utility to depend not just on material payoffs but also on beliefs and the attention devoted to them. We use this framework to introduce the concept of ...

In January 2001 the Pew Environmental Health Commission called for the creation of a coordinated public health system to prevent disease in the United States by tracking and combating environmental health threats. In response, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention initiated the Environmental Public Health Tracking (EPHT) Program to integrate three distinct components of hazard monitori...

The creation of a conceptual schema is a critical feature of the software production process. The conceptual schema should represent the structure and behavior of the information system so that the users can perform their organizational tasks. For this reason, the organizational context needs to be the starting point for the generation of an initial conceptual schema. This approach allows us to...

As a result of their black-box nature, neural networks resist traditional methods of certification and therefore cannot be used in safety critical applications. This situation is undesirable as neural networks can provide an effective solution to many engineering problems. The object of the current paper is to explore the possibility of quantifying and qualifying the reliability of neural netwo...

Web search engines have become the primary method of accessing information on the web. Billions of queries are submitted to major web search engines, reflecting a wide range of information needs. While significant progress has been made on improving the relevance of the results, web search process often remains a frustrating experience. At the same time, web information extraction has seen trem...