To critique Project LISTEN’s automated Reading Tutor, we adapted a panel-of-judges methodology for evaluating expert systems. Three professional elementary educators watched 15 video clips of the Reading Tutor listening to second and third graders read aloud. Each expert chose which of 10 interventions to make in each situation. To keep the Reading Tutor’s choice from influencing the expert, we...

The goal of this project is developing an expert system that aims to help software designers while designing objectoriented software by automating object-oriented design process. Some novel points are : using an interactive user interface, to enable software designer and expert system can communicate with each other in order to determine the best design, without disturbing the creativity of the...

Anecdotal reports and recent reviews assert that expert systems are potentially useful decision aids in human resource management. This study examines the effects of an expert system designed to aid employees when they make their choices in a flexible bellcfit program. A four group quasi-field experimental design is used to examine the relative effects of the expert system compared to a convent...

introduction: the purpose of this research was to evaluate the performance of the hospitals’ managers affiliated to medical university of isfahan by data envelopment analysis (dea) method. also since some attributes of performance are qualitative, analytical hierarchy process (ahp) method was used also to quantify the data. methods: this research was practical in purpose and descriptive-analyti...

The expert system discussed in this chapter, the Expert System to Software Package Selection (ESSS), was developed motivated by the needs of small bussines to support the software packages selection task. ESSS, is a rule based expert system designed to evaluate software packages using the ranking approach. ESSS evaluates software packages using six factors, and point values appropiate for each ...

The shipyard location and model highly influence industry development. This study aims to assess the feasibility determine suitable for development in Kutaraja Fishing Port. was conducted AHP method used model, then analyzed using Expert Choice v11 software. data were collected questionnaire interviews further allocated value paired comparison scale table. result shows that is feasible be devel...

The aim of this chapter is to investigate the decision process of manufacturing systems (MSs) under uncertain conditions. The decision process needs a systematic approach to structure the system requirements and highlight the management preferences while considering vague criteria. In order to establish a suitable empirical approach for the decision process compatible with the current/future re...

during last ten years, change of consumption pattern, variety and modernity of consumers, variety of producers and competitors, changes and vacillation rates, cause developing and decreasing the amounts of produce expenses by using hardware and software progressing, which are so important. in this respect, one of the possible solutions to increase the quality and enjoy the use of software possi...

this study aimed to determine the prone areas for sugar beet planting with regards to their major effective factors. climatic data of 1998-2009 period were obtained from the local stations of khorasan razavi meteorological bureau. the topographic data including altitude, slope, slope direction, and tin layers were extracted from 1:250000 topographic maps of cartographic organization, iran. the ...