First submission on 14/11/12; last submission on 17/01/13; accepted for publication on 05/02/13; published on 20/04/13 1. Post-graduate in Pathology and Cytopathology by Instituto Nacional de Câncer (INCA). 2. Post-graduate in Anatomy Pathology by INCA. 3. Post-graduate in Anatomy Pathology by Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF); doctor in Sciences by Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública/Fundação...

In this paper, we present an interactive, case-based approach to crisis response that provides users with the ability to rapidly develop good responses while allowing them to retain ultimate control over the decision-making process. We have implemented this approach in Inca, an INteractive Crisis Assistant for planning and scheduling in crisis domains. Inca relies on case-based methods to seed ...

In this paper, we present an interactive, case-based approach to crisis response that provides users with the ability to rapidly develop good responses while allowing them to retain ultimate control over the decisionmaking process. We have implemented this approach in INCA, an INteractive Crisis Assistant for planning and scheduling in crisis domains. INCA relies on casebased methods to seed th...

In the family Enterobacteriaceae, plasmids have been classified according to 27 incompatibility (Inc) or replicon types that are based on the inability of different plasmids with the same replication mechanism to coexist in the same cell. Certain replicon types such as IncA/C are associated with multidrug resistance (MDR). We developed a microarray that contains 286 unique 70-mer oligonucleotid...

Current communication subsystem mechanisms within workstation and PC class computers are limiting network communications throughput to a small percentage of the present network data rates. Even though CPU and computer network speeds have increased by more than an order of magnitude, the execution rate of computer functions and applications requiring network communications have increased only ma...

In this paper, we describe Inca, an adap-tive, advisable assistant for crisis response. The system lets users guide the search toward particular schedules by giving high-level, operational advice about the solutions desired. Because traces of user interactions provide information regarding the user's preferences among schedules, Inca can draw on machine learning techniques to construct user mod...

Inca is an adaptive, interactive assistant for crisis response. In this paper, we present Inca's advisable interaction framework, wherein users can guide the search toward particular solutions by providing high-level, operational advice regarding the type of solutions desired. With readily available traces of user interactions providing information regarding the user's preferences among solutio...

Incompatibility group IncA/C plasmids are large, low copy, theta-replicating plasmids that have been described in the literature for over 40 years. However, they have only recently been intensively studied on the genomic level because of their associations with the emergence of multidrug resistance in enteric pathogens of humans and animals. These plasmids are unique among other enterobacterial...