Practical Negotiation for Medical Professionals

Practical Ontologies for Information Professionals

Adaptive Strategies for Practical Argument-Based Negotiation

Recent years have seen an increasing interest of multiagent system research in employing the theory of argumentation for the development of communication protocols. While significant progress has been made in formalising argument-based communication, (possibly adaptive) agent-level argumentation strategies as a practical integration of rational agent reasoning and inter-agent dialogue have rece...

Towards Practical Automated Trust Negotiation

Exchange of attribute credentials is a means to establish mutual trust between strangers that wish to share resources or conduct business transactions. Automated Trust Negotiation (ATN) is an approach to regulate the exchange of sensitive credentials by using access control policies. Existing ATN work makes unrealistic simplifying assumptions about credential-representation languages and creden...

Resiliency training for medical professionals.

For the past 10 years, the military medical system costs have increased by an estimated 167 percent. Behavioral health issues and physical ailments are major contributors to the increased costs. As a result, fatigue and burnout of medical professionals are growing concerns. The Army Medical Department (AMEDD) recognizes that physical and psychological stressors adversely impact personal well-be...

Practical Chemistry for Medical Students

THIS book covers the pre-registration and first-year medical courses in chemistry, and is based on the present medical curriculum in the University of Edinburgh. Though the book is not intended to cover biochemistry , the author is university lecturer in biochemistry , and is therefore in a good position to judge which parts of the chemistry course should be stressed as being specially importan...