10.1056/nejmp1013111 nejm.org 1 zations, including my own, now describe enhancement of value for patients as a fundamental goal and are using concepts developed by Michael Porter (see 10.1056/ NEJMp1011024, and the framework papers in Supplementary Appendixes 1 and 2 of that article) to shape their strategies. What has changed? And what are these organizations actually doing? Practical motivati...

In this study, a value framework for ubiquitous computing is developed and presented. Using ‘value focused thinking’ approach suggested by Keeney, twenty-two potential users of ubiquitous computing were interviewed and 435 statements describing values expected from ubiquitous technology were obtained from these interviews. Subsequent purification and redundancy removal reduces these 435 stateme...

In this paper, we show two important connections between computational models of narrative and computational models of argumentation. First, we show how argumentation techniques can be applied to enrich story understanding, especially where an understanding the story requires understanding of the motives of its characters. This also helps to explain how stories can themselves be seen as as argu...

the main objective of this research was identifying an appropriate model for the work values in public services of iran within the framework of islamic value system. the basic in this study is: what are components and dimensions of the work values in public services of iran within the framework of islamic value system? in this basic research, data was gathered through filed and library data col...

We extend RDF with the ability to represent property values that exist, but are unknown or partially known, using constraints. Following ideas from the incomplete information literature, we develop a semantics for this extension of RDF, called RDF, and study SPARQL query evaluation in this framework.

Although reasoning about what is the case has been the historic focus of logic, reasoning about what should be done is an equally important capacity for an intelligent agent. Reasoning about what to do in a given situation termed practical reasoning in the philosophical literature has important differences from reasoning about what is the case. The acceptability of an argument for an action tur...