Case-based session: see this case at least once: Saturday 6 December 2014, 10:00-11:00 * Location: Agora

Agora - Speech-Act-Based Adaptive Case Management

Today’s work is increasingly characterized by unpredictable collaborative processes called knowledge work. Some types of knowledge work are supported by case management tools which typically provide regulated access to case-related information. Knowledge workers are well aware of the pragmatic dimension of their communicative acts, but the systems they are using currently are not. This demo pap...

Cover vol. 11, no. 6, December 2014

Persian-translation vol. 11, no. 6, December 2014

Plenary Session # 1 Saturday 9 : 00 - 10 :

Large scale phenomena in homotopy theory (Jordan Hall 124) Paul Goerss (Northwestern University) In the late 1940s it wasn’t clear which was the harder problem: the cohomology of Eilenberg-MacLane spaces or the stable homotopy groups of spheres. After the Cartan-Serre work on Eilenberg-MacLane spaces in the early ’50s, people then optimistically set about computing the homotopy groups of sphere...

Chronic lymphocytic leukemia: case-based session.

Drs. Hartmut Döhner, Michael J. Keating, Kanti R. Rai and Emili Montserrat form the panel to review chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) while focusing on the clinical features of a particular patient. The pace of progress in CLL has accelerated in the past decade. The pathophysiological nature of this disease, as had been known in the past, was based largely on the intuitive and empiric notions ...