Managing rational routes to randomness

Managing for rational medicine use

27.5 Strategies to improve medicine use 27.9 27.6 Developing a strategy 27.10 Step 1. Identify the problem and recognize the need for action • Step 2. Identify underlying causes and motivating factors • Step 3. List possible interventions • Step 4. Assess resources available for action • Step 5. Choose an intervention or interventions to test • Step 6. Monitor the impact and restructure the int...

Managing BGP Routes with a BGP Session Multiplexer

This paper presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of BGP-Mux, a system for providing multiple clients access to a common set of BGP update streams from multiple BGP peers. By providing multiple clients access to the same set of BGP feeds, BGP-Mux facilitates many applications, including: (1) scalable, real-time monitoring of BGP update feeds; (3) new routing architectures that requ...

User Models for Motivational Systems - The Affective and the Rational Routes to Persuasion

Recent years have witnessed the growth of three parallel strands of research, all directing towards a more complex cognitive model of rational and extra-rational features, involving emotions, persuasion, motivation and argumentation. On one side, Persuasive Technology is emerging as a very strong research field, interested in the use of interactive systems to influence human thought and behavio...

From Randomness to Order

A major achievement of the Nobel prize winning economist Thomas Schelling was an elegant model of racial segregation, first described in 1969. In this model, one starts with a random arrangement of two types of objects (in one or two dimensions) and initiates a stochastic process which rearranges the objects according to some rules, which induce a probabilistic (nondeterministic) process. The a...

Demuth's Path to Randomness