Goals For 2013

2013 ACC/AHA Cholesterol Guideline and Implications for Healthy People 2020 Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Goals

BACKGROUND Healthy People 2020 aim to reduce fatal atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) by 20%, which translates into 310 000 fewer events annually assuming proportional reduction in fatal and nonfatal ASCVD. We estimated preventable ASCVD events by implementing the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) 2013 Cholesterol Guideline in all statin-eligible ad...

DRAFT : April 4 , 2013 Goals and the Organization of Choice Under Risk

The discipline of experimental psychology was changed profoundly by World War II. A generation of young psychologists became engaged with the war effort and when they returned to academia, they brought back working knowledge of powerful computational tools for understanding how intelligent systems process information. Ideas from signal detection theory, cybernetics, information theory, image pr...

Design Goals for ACL2

Goals for Telecare Networks

Telecare supports delivery of care to the home. Telecare networks link devices in the home, and provide access to local and remote services. Since telecare systems require a high degree of autonomy, it is desirable to have automated rules that manage their operation. Telecare systems also require flexibility and adaptability, but modifying their technology normally needs expert intervention. Th...

Preferential Semantics for Goals

Goals, as typically conceived in AI planning, provide an insufficient basis for choice of action, and hence are deficient as the sole expression of an agent’s objectives. Decision-theoretic utilities offer a more adequate basis, yet lack many of the computational advantages of goals. We provide a preferential semantics for goals that grounds them in decision theory and preserves the validity of...