An expert system is a computer program intended to embody the knowledge and ability of an expert in a certain domain. The ideas behind them and several examples have been described in other lectures in this symposium. Their performance in their specialized domains are often very impressive. Nevertheless, hardly any of them have certain common sense knowledge and ability possessed by any non-fee...

An expert system is a computer program intended to embody the knowledge and ability of an expert in a certain domain. The ideas behind them and several examples have been described in other lectures in this symposium. Their performance in their specialized domains are often very impressive. Nevertheless, hardly any of them have certain common sense knowledge and ability possessed by any non-fee...

Data privacy is a huge concern nowadays. In the context of location based services, a very important issue regards protecting the position of users issuing queries. Strong location privacy renders the user position indistinguishable from any other location. This necessitates that every query, independently of its location, should retrieve the same amount of information, determined by the query ...

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is rarely invoked by medical residents in training. Dr. Martin Jakubowski, a family medicine resident with Asperger's disorder, was dismissed for communicating poorly with patients, peers, and supervisors and for issuing dangerous medical orders. In an attempt to become reinstated, he sued under the ADA (Jakubowski v. The Christ Hospital), arguing that ...

tabriz petrochemical complex is located in northwest of iran and west of tabriz oil refinery and mostly produces raw plastics. in this study the implementation of reduction of hazardous waste contact in this complex with special emphasis on personal protective equipment (ppe) is discussed. accordingly different hazards threatening personnel, indoor and outdoor environment were determined. in or...

2. Chronic Periodontitis is highly prevalent in the adult population and is found in approximately 47% of adults in the U.S. (Eke et al., 2012). Chronic periodontitis is the most common form of periodontitis throughout the world. It should be noted that there are some uncommon forms of periodontitis, grouped together under the name “Aggressive Periodontitis” that are characterized by severe des...

tetanus can be only prevented by vaccination because immunity against this disease is rarely acquired, even by natural infections. to maintain long-term protective immunity against tetanus, booster immunization is essential for adolescents and adults. most hospitalized cases and virtually all deaths occur in people over 60 years of age. the purpose of this study was to investigate the degree of...

This paper develops Order Acceptance for an Integrated Production-Distribution Problem in which Batch Delivery is implemented. The aim of this problem is to coordinate: (1) rejecting some of the orders (2) production scheduling of the accepted orders and (3) batch delivery to maximize Total Net Profit. A Mixed Integer Programming is proposed for the problem. In addition, a hybrid meta-heuristic...