Training Neurodegenerative Disease Support Group Leaders: A New Support Group Functioning Scale

A New Formulation for Cost-Sensitive Two Group Support Vector Machine with Multiple Error Rate

Support vector machine (SVM) is a popular classification technique which classifies data using a max-margin separator hyperplane. The normal vector and bias of the mentioned hyperplane is determined by solving a quadratic model implies that SVM training confronts by an optimization problem. Among of the extensions of SVM, cost-sensitive scheme refers to a model with multiple costs which conside...

Group Support Platform: Middleware Support For Group-Based Distributed Applications

Currently available distributed platforms such as CORBA, DCE, DCOM, etc. offer middleware services for the support of client-server based distributed applications. This paper investigates what “middleware services” are required in a “group support platform” for the support of an important class of distributed applications -the group-based distributed applications. These services are called grou...

Effect of support group peer facilitator training programmes on peer facilitator and support group member outcomes: a systematic review

OBJECTIVE Peer facilitators play an important role in determining the success of many support groups for patients with medical illnesses. However, many facilitators do not receive training for their role and report a number of challenges in fulfilling their responsibilities. The objective of this systematic review was to evaluate the effects of training and support programmes for peer facilitat...

To Support Group Work

Group Support Systems

One of our objectives in coordinating this year's Group Support System (GSS) mini-track was to encourage a wide range of papers that touched on a variety of important issues. As in the past, we used a strong reviewing process all papers were sent to at least three, sometimes four, reviewers. Our reviewers included scholars, practitioners, and developers, social psychologists, computer scientist...