Starting from McCarthy’s seminal proposal for the construction of an advice-taking machine, we show how tools from abstract argumentation and computational learning can help disambiguate and formalize that goal. Our focus is on establishing provable guarantees on the realizability of the advice taker, and on implementing an actual prototype system.

the most common reason for women ceasing breast-feeding were lack of support and appropriate advice. to explore the advice about breast-feeding given by community midwives and compare and contrast their advice in swansea (uk) and shahrekord (iran). data collected through semi-structured interview with a sample of 12 community midwives, 6 from each country. purposive sample was selected as capab...

objective: infertility is an important social concern. environmental factors such as smoking and tobacco consumption can affect sperm and follicular function and infertility. smoke cessation reduces its complications and makes infertility treatment more effective which motivates and encourages infertile smokers to consider quitting. the aim of current study was to assess brief smoking cessation...

In loving memory of my father, Dr. Suresh Kumar Kwatra, who has been my greatest inspiration in life ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I am indebted to my advisor, Aaron Bobick, and co-advisor, Irfan Essa, for their exceptional support and guidance. They gave me the freedom to explore research ideas at will, but were always there to educate and guide me. I would also like to thank the rest of my committee membe...

These patterns are for two closely related audiences, the authors and the shepherds. Why have one set of patterns for two audiences? The obvious reason is that authors and shepherds are often the same people, and much of the advice is the same. But more importantly, an author can gain great insights by understanding what a reader – in this case, the shepherd – is looking for. So I modified the ...

This work present the main features of the ADVICE (IST 1999-11305) project, a research project whose main aim is to develop a virtual assistant for e-shops that imitates the behaviour of a human vendor.

background and objectives: discharge against medical advice (dama) is a significant healthcare problem posing negative impact on effectiveness of patient care and costs of the health system. in order to address this problem, first the potential influencing factor should be identifies. this study followed two major objectives: first, to evaluate the prevalence and potential causes of dama, and s...