To succeed within the increasingly global context of their work environment, today’s IT professional needs to be equipped with both cutting-edge technical skills and a strong repertoire of “soft” skills. An important and often unrecognized soft skill is an appreciation of how various IT issues impact upon different peoples and what constitutes an acceptable professional practice in different so...

The authors discuss supervisory control of probabilistic discrete-event systems in this paper. Supervisors for such systems will take probabilities of event occurrences into consideration in making control decisions. The authors introduce a new concept called “ -containment of a given language” and subsequently study its algebraic properties. They discuss standard supervisor (with only enableme...

College of Medicine. In these positions, he is responsible for conducting research in the area of Patient Safety and Quality of Care as well as teaching second-year medical students. Shewchuk is an expert, and teaches courses, in quantitative and qualitative research methods.

The category of event structures is known to embed fully and faithfully in the category of presheaves over pomsets. Here a characterisation of the presheaves represented by event structures is presented. The proof goes via a characterisation of the presheaves represented by event structures when the morphisms on event structures are “strict” in that they preserve the partial order of causal dep...

This section provides information on how the projections in AgriculturalOutlook are generated. First, a general description of agricultural baseline and Outlook report is given. Second, compilation consistent set assumptions macroeconomic discussed more detail. Section 3 reference to underlying Aglink-Cosimo model, while last explains partial stochastic analysis performed with model.

Research on calibration remains a popular line of inquiry. Calibration is the degree of fit between a person's judgment of performance and his or her actual performance. Given the continued interest in this topic, the questions posed in this article are fruitful directions to pursue to help address gaps in calibration research. In this article, we have identified six research directions that if...

Design activities are fundamental to technological progress. Current design research holds tight to positivism, abandoned and critically opposed to by philosophers, mostly those outside the U.S. Maintaining the positivist view when conducting research leads to significant deficiencies in the quality of research, and to problems in transferring research results to practice. In spite of significa...