evaluation of nurses point of views about hospital information system (his) in urmia     rahimi b [1] *, ebrahimi z [2] , rashidi a [3]     received: 17 sep, 2012 accepted: 16 nov, 2012     abstract   background & aims : nowadays most hospitals replace their paper-based medical records with electronic health records or update their old hospital information systems (hiss). a descriptive study of...

The important role given to domain ontologies for knowledge representation implies increasing need for development and maintenance of them. However, we have a scarcity of tools supporting the life cycle from creation to management and adaptation. Our research group focuses on developing an autonomic process for knowledge representation through a systematic evaluation and redesign of ontologies....

In this paper, we propose a supervised model for ranking word importance that incorporates a rich set of features. Our model is superior to prior approaches for identifying words used in human summaries. Moreover we show that an extractive summarizer which includes our estimation of word importance results in summaries comparable with the state-of-the-art by automatic evaluation. Disciplines Co...

Although the soft (i.e. non-technical) skills of information systems (I/S) professionals are recognized as important for job performance, few attempts have been made to study systematically the concept of soft skills. We draw upon the pioneering work in the area of practical intelligence and creativity at the workplace to develop the concept of soft skills and to validate an instrument to asses...

This explorative study contributes to research on relevance assessment by specifying criteria that are used in the judgment of information quality and credibility in internet discussion forums. To this end, 4739 messages posted to 160 Finnish discussion threads were analyzed. Of the messages, 20.5% contained explicit judgments of the quality of information and credibility in other messages. In ...

When motions of linkages such as the human body must be specified in terms of joint angle changes, considerable effort is required to acheive a particular goal. We review some techniques useful for the automatic generation of joint angle adjustments from a goal specified in terms of a world coordinate system. Disciplines Computer Engineering | Computer Sciences Comments University of Pennsylvan...

some of the library & information science as well as computer specialists are considering image indexing as one of the best ways for the appropriate image storage and retrieval. therefore each, of them has tried to use different approaches and methods for image indexing. although their efforts have solved some problems of image indexing. because of the unique features of images that distinguish...