As with many complex design problems, physical database design is difficult, ill-structured, and highly human intensive. In order to effectively construct support systems or improve the practice of database design, it is important to understand how human designers reason about the task. We report an empirical study of physical database design problem solving. Thirteen subjects each solved two p...

Objectives: Clinical reasoning is at the heart of clinical work; it is affected by different field factors. A clear understanding of the reasoning process could solve practitioners' problems on how to make their underlying theories, assumptions and values more explicit. The aim of this research is to understand how clinical reasoning process is formed in the context of occupational therapists w...

Managing the information stewardship lifecycle is a challenge. In the context of cloud computing, the stakeholders in cloud ecosystems must also take account of the demands of the information stewardship lifecycles of other participants in the ecosystem. We describe a modelling framework — incorporating tools from mathematical systems modelling, economics, and policy/user modelling — suitable f...

Production scheduling plays a key enabling technique in improving the efficiency of modern production enterprises facing the international competition. Although the trend of software development for business application demands standard software, there exist no standard scheduling software package that can be applied to these applications. In this paper a special architecture based on object-or...

Healthcare decision making demands the systematic integration of knowledge from multiple sources, such as clinical guidelines, clinical pathways, knowledge of practitioners and so on. We present a semantic web based approach for synthesizing health knowledge through the semantic modeling of healthcare knowledge as ontologies and reasoning over the ontologies to derive a morphed knowledge object...