gas hydrate formation in production and transmission pipelines and consequent plugging of these lines have been a major flow-assurance concern of the oil and gas industry for the last 75 years. gas hydrate formation rate is one of the most important topics related to the kinetics of the process of gas hydrate crystallization. the main purpose of this study is investigating phenomenon of gas hyd...

Thee need of literacy intervention and of tools for deaf people is largely documented in the literature of deaf studies. This paper aims at eliciting the interests of HCI researchers and practitioners alike on the creation of more intelligent web tools for the literacy of deaf people. Our paper overviews several e-tools for the literacy of the deaf, and it assesses them according to the user ce...

Haruspex is a suite that supports a scenario-based assessment. In each scenario, intelligent agents compose elementary attacks against an ICT system to reach some predefined goals. Some Haruspex tools build the models of the target system and of the agents of interest. Using these model, further tools apply a Monte Carlo method with multiple, independent simulations of the agent attacks and ret...

This paper discusses an intelligent and Internet-based Telecommunication System Specification Model (TSSM) using Computer Aided Systems Engineering tools (CASE tools). TSSM implements CASE tools to mechanize its lifecycle development maintenance and integration process. This model is developed to improve the system analysts (SA) efforts in their design and development of major software and hard...

MOTIVATION The past decade has seen the introduction of fast and relatively inexpensive methods to detect genetic variation across the genome and exponential growth in the number of known single nucleotide variants (SNVs). There is increasing interest in bioinformatics approaches to identify variants that are functionally important from millions of candidate variants. Here, we describe the esse...

Software maintenance is an important part of the software lifecycle. Understanding large software systems that are unfamiliar can be difficult for maintenance programmers. Intelligent and robust search tools are one method for facilitating program understanding and comprehension. One of the major problems associated with improving search tools is the use of abbreviations within software. The fo...

Cognitive tools, defined here as instruments that support or perform cognitive processes for learners in order to support learning, can bridge the difference between open learning environments, like discovery learning environments and traditional supportive instructional environments. This article discusses a definition of the concept of cognitive tool and its use in learning. Two examples of c...

Reciprocal tutoring, where peers take turns to tutor each other, is an interesting style of social learning. In the Reciprocal Tutoring System (RTS), three computational cognitive tools were designed to facilitate reciprocal tutoring of Lisp programming on the network. The first is a Petal-style of code–chunk interface, with which a tutee can enter Lisp code without making syntactic errors. The...

OBJECTIVE To review the history and current applications of artificial intelligence in the intensive care unit. DATA SOURCES The MEDLINE database, bibliographies of selected articles, and current texts on the subject. STUDY SELECTION The studies that were selected for review used artificial intelligence tools for a variety of intensive care applications, including direct patient care and re...

These days, the most important areas of research in many different applications, with different tools, are focused on how to get awareness. One of the serious applications is the awareness of the behavior and activities of patients. The importance is due to the need of ubiquitous medical care for individuals. That the doctor knows the patient's physical condition, sometimes is very important. O...