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Ontology Aware Software Service Agents: Meeting Ordinary User Needs on the Semantic Web

ONTOLOGY AWARE SOFTWARE SERVICE AGENTS: MEETING ORDINARY USER NEEDS ON THE SEMANTIC WEB by

ONTOLOGY AWARE SOFTWARE SERVICE AGENTS: MEETING ORDINARY USER NEEDS ON THE SEMANTIC WEB Muhammed J. Al-Muhammed Department of Computer Science Doctor of Philosophy To achieve the dream of the semantic web, it must be possible for ordinary users to invoke services. It is clear that users need simple-to-invoke-and-use services. This dissertation offers an ontological approach to declaratively cre...

'No ordinary meeting': Robert McWhirter and the decline of radical mastectomy.

On 7 January 1948, a meeting was held at the Royal Society of Medicine in London. Its purpose was to settle a controversy. Robert McWhirter, an Edinburgh-based radiotherapist, had been invited to defend the scandalous position advocated by Geoffrey Keynes ten years previously: that radical mastectomy offered no survival advantage when compared to simple mastectomy plus local radiotherapy. The n...

Meeting the Challenge of Diabetes in China

China’s estimated 114 million people with diabetes pose a massive challenge for China’s health policy-makers who have significantly extended health insurance coverage over the past decade. What China is doing now, what it has achieved, and what remains to be done should be of interest to health policy-makers, worldwide. We identify the challenges posed by China’s two pr...

Finding an Ordinary Conic and an Ordinary Hyperplane

Given a nite set of non-collinear points in the plane there exists a line that passes through exactly two points. Such a line is called an ordinary line. An e cient algorithm for computing such a line was proposed by Mukhopadhyay et al [MAH97]. In this note we extend this result in two directions. We rst show how to use this algorithm to compute an ordinary conic, that is, a conic passing throu...