BACKGROUND The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is responsible for ensuring the quality of healthcare in England. To that end, CQC has developed statistical surveillance tools that periodically aggregate large numbers of quantitative performance measures to identify risks to the quality of care and prioritise its limited inspection resource. These tools have, however, failed to successfully identi...

This paper explores collective personalized communication. For example, in all-to-all personalized communication (AAPC), each processor sends a distinct message to every other processor. However, for many applications, the collective communication pattern is many-to-many, where each processor sends a distinct message to a subset of processors. In this paper we first present strategies that redu...

Growing science apathy at the K-12 education level represents an alarming development with potentially devastating consequences at individual, societal and economic levels. Surprisingly, student apathy is increasing while the general public increasingly reads popular science books and watches science TV programming. We have begun creating a new kind of infrastructure, called Collective Simulati...

Sumber Baja is a trading company engaged in used goods such as cans, iron, and junk which will be sent to the client. At time of delivery still making notes book make report on goods. This system intended for design sales monitoring applications that can assist reports have been Because it has several obstacles using recorded book. So process takes long because searching data books, file docume...

Industry-Wide Work Rules and Productivity: Evidence from Argentine Union Contract Data In the early 1990’s, the Argentine government promoted a framework for productivity-based negotiations between firms and unions at low levels of organization. The policy weakened the industry-wide collective bargaining system, which sets working conditions for all firms in an industry. This paper employs newl...

Session search aims to improve ranking effectiveness by incorporating user interaction information, including short-term interactions within one session and global interactions from other sessions (or other users). While various session search models have been developed and a large number of interaction features have been used, there is a lack of a systematic investigation on how different feat...

Collective intelligence refers to the intelligence that emerges from local interactions among individual people. These local interactions in human collectives can be either direct or indirect. In addition, the interactions of both forms can take place through verbal communication or non-verbal action. As illustrated in Figure 1, following these two binary distinctions, interactions among humans...

In this paper the notion of collective intention in teams of agents involved in cooperative problem solving (CPS) in multiagent systems (MAS) is investigated. Starting from individual intentions , goals, and beliefs defining agents' local asocial motivational and informational attitudes, we arrive at an understanding of a collective intention in a team of agents. The presented definitions are r...