Research utilization, a problem in goal setting: what is the question?

What Is the Best Research Globally?

Dr. Afshari’s editorial gives insight on human nature (1). Collaborative willingness usually occurs when different sides perceive personal benefit, or when institutions mandate collaboration. This is not unique between higher and lower income countries; many working in global emergency medicine (EM) observe this within wealthier countries. It exists among collaborators in low resource settings....

Chapter 4 Goal Setting: The Goal/Question/Metric Paradigm

What is a Question?

A given question can be defined in terms of the set of statements or assertions that answer it. Application of logical inference to these sets of assertions allows one to derive the logic of inquiry among questions. There are interesting symmetries between the logics of inference and inquiry; where probability describes the degree to which a premise implies an assertion, there exists an analogo...

What Is the Goal ?

Abstra t. Formal goal and servi e des riptions are the shibboleth of the semanti web servi es approa h, yet the people responsible for reating them are neither ma hines nor logi ians, and rarely even knowledge engineers: the people who need and spe ify fun tionality are not those who provide it, and both may be distin t from the semanti annotators. The gap between users' informal on eptualisati...

What is a Normative Goal?

In this paper we are interested in developing goal-based normative agent architectures. We ask ourselves the question what a normative goal is. To answer this question we introduce a qualitative normative decision theory based on belief (B) and obligation (O) rules. We show that every agent which makes optimal decisions – which we call a BO rational agent – acts as if it is maximizing its achie...