Ontologies are important components of health information management systems. As such, the quality of their content is of paramount importance. It has been proven to be practical to develop quality assurance (QA) methodologies based on automated identification of sets of concepts expected to have higher likelihood of errors. Four kinds of such sets (called QA-sets) organized around the themes o...

The development of machine learning and deep (ML/DL) change the skills expected by society form ML/DL teaching in higher education. This article proposes a formal system to improve and, subsequently, graduates' skills. Our proposed is based on quality assurance (QA) adapted implemented model suggested Deming continuously QA processes.

In a climate of increased deployment of information technologies for the flexible delivery of instruction in both the higher education and private sectors, procedures for ensuring a quality outcome are becoming increasingly important. The use of a developmental process that aims to meet established acceptance criteria for a project, and one which incorporates robust evaluation methodologies to ...

BACKGROUND Patients, families and communities expect safe, competent and compassionate nursing care that has always been a core value of nursing. To meet these expectations, a valid and reliable quality assurance (QA) system is crucial to ensure that nurse-graduates are competent, confident and fit to practice. The QA approach is seen to be fundamental for quality improvement, it would be appro...

Object transformation for preservation purposes is currently a hit-ormiss affair, where errors in transformation may go unnoticed for years since manual quality assurance is too resource-intensive for large collections of digital objects. We propose an approach of semi-automatic quality assurance (QA), where numerous separate automatic checks of “aspects” of the objects, combined with manual in...

This paper sets out the policy of the Union Européenne des Médecins Spécialistes/ European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS) on quality assurance (QA), which is defined here as the regular review against defined standards of medical care. Its aim is to provide a framework for confirming the good quality of healthcare in Europe and, specifically, of the contribution of specialist doctors. The ...

The selection and design of quality assurance (QA) methods for software development projects a) involves tradeoffs that are not always made explicit and b) the impacts of the selection decisions on project success and risks may be not well understood. Similar to SEI’s ATAM analysis technique for software architecture quality and risk evaluation, this paper introduces the ideas for QATAM, a tech...

The philosophy of quality assurance (QA) and total quality management is derived from industrial and commercial practice. We propose the adoption of international standards ISO 9000 (used in industry and commerce) to higher educational institutions to assure and improve the quality, efficiency, and delivery of their programmes and services. This paper examines the scope and structure of a QA sy...

Performance-intensive software is increasingly being used on heterogeneous combinations of OS, compiler, and hardware platforms. Examples include reusable middleware that forms the basis for scientific computing grids and distributed real-time and embedded systems. Since this software has stringent quality of service (QoS) requirements, it often provides a multitude of configuration options tha...