The concept of consilience, that is, the fundamental unity of knowledge across disciplines, is applied to the field of psychoanalysis. Whereas practitioners in other disciplines, especially the natural sciences, strive for consilience, psychoanalysis as a discipline is found to be frequently lacking in consilience. Implications for paradigm change, metatheory, and evidence-based practice are di...

On the basis of analyzing the shortcomings of traditional authentication mechanism synthetically, the paper presents a new kind of P2P identity authentication model. In the new P2P Identity authentication model, it authenticates the identity of nodes by using a new Zero-Knowledge proof identification scheme which combines the advantage of RSA. Besides, during the process of validating nodes’ id...

We describe the treatment of verbs with prepositional complements in HaGenLex, a semantically based computer lexicon for German. Prepositional verbs such as bestehen auf (‘insist on’) subcategorize for a prepositional phrase where the preposition usually has no independent meaning of its own. The lexical semantic information in HaGenLex is specified by means of MultiNet, a full-fledged knowledg...

This paper discusses some of the technical challenges to improving the medical knowledge base by integrating real-time vital sign data into pre-hospital patient care records. Effective vital sign integration depends on the correct choice of sensor technology and intelligent design of several architectural dimensions. As an illustrative example of vital sign integration iRevive an EMS applicatio...

In this paper we illustrate how information on behaviour can be captured from natural language with the RADD-NLI. The behavioural information contained in verbal descriptions of processes is transformed into an abstract process model of characteristic processes. This abstract process model is then integrated into the knowledge base of the RADD-NLI. Although taken from a speciic domain this mode...

System identification and parameter estimation are important to obtain information from systems which are difficult to model and that are usually presented as BlackBox models. This work presents a point to point parameter estimation of a generalized non-deterministic system, whose results are variable through time, by using an exponential Forgetting Factor (FF). An average approximation is used...

The eProcurement planning is crucial to reduce purchase cost while selecting the right suppliers and it contributes to improve corporate competitiveness. This eProcurement planning research describes a framework for the integration of a knowledge-based system capable of identifying a goal model from a Primitive Model. The Primitive Model is screened by the screening factors reflecting the purch...

Purpose – This paper aims to assess the business value realised from radio frequency identification (RFID)enabled healthcare transformation projects as compared with other industries. The paper starts with a review of RFID technology in the healthcare industry and further extends to an in-depth analysis of mini-case studies collected from RFID Journal, a leading professional journal dedicated t...

The advantages of computer-based assessment are most often framed in terms of the convenience and flexibility of the delivery system and the speed and reliability of marking. One assumption behind those arguments is that the assessment items themselves will be little different from those in paper and pencil tests. Yet computers offer the potential for a very different experience, and computer-b...

This paper addresses the influence of two competing views of social identity on knowledge integration within organizations. One view sees social identity primarily as a coherent characteristic of organisations, which can leverage knowledge integration by developing loyalty, trust, shared values and implicit norms (Kogut and Zander, 1996). The opposing view considers social identification as mul...