Schematic networks are linear abstractions of functional networks, such as route networks. Lines in the original network are modified in order to produce a schematic network which satisfies a set of constraints chosen to design the network. A method is described which accomplishes this line transformation using an iterative improvement technique driven by design constraints. The method maintain...

Infection control education has been a core component of infection control programs since they were established (Scheckler et al., 1998; Department of Health and Ageing, 2004) and remains a constant feature in the modern healthcare context. Education is a pivotal strategy used to address problems identified through surveillance of infection or to improve infection control practice.(Dubbert et a...

Résumé. La finalité de ce papier est d'analyser l'apport de techniques de fouille de données textuelles à une méthodologie de construction d'ontologie à partir de textes. Le domaine d’application de cette expérimentation est celui de l’accidentologie routière. Dans ce contexte, les résultats des techniques de fouille de données textuelles sont utilisés pour orienter la construction d’une ressou...

Speaker verification systems have shown significant progress and have reached a level of performance that make their use in practical applications possible. Nevertheless, large differences in terms of performance are observed, depending on the speaker or the speech excerpt used. This context emphasizes the importance of a deeper analysis of the system’s performance over average error rate. In t...

This study examines the need/importance for ground validation of Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper (TM) and 7 Enhanced Plus (ETM+) observation at 2 gas flaring sites in Rivers State Niger Delta, Nigeria. 12 imageries (3 TM 9 ETM+) acquired from 25/03/1987 to 08/03/2013 with < % cloud contamination were used. Both are located within a single scene (Path 188, Row 057). Fieldwork measurements obser...

We define personalisation as the set of capabilities that enables a user or an organisation to customise their working environment to suit their specific needs, preferences and circumstances. In the context of service discovery on the Grid, the demand for personalisation comes from individual users, who want their preferences to be taken into account during the search and selection of suitable ...

Process model matching refers to the task of creating correspondences among activities of different process models. This task is crucial whenever comparison and alignment of process models are called for. In recent years, there have been a few attempts to tackle process model matching. Yet, evaluating the obtained sets of correspondences reveals high variability in the results. Addressing this ...

The use of data mining techniques in healthcare has been noticing an increased relevance over the last few years, being applied with a variety of objectives, with the most common one being the automatic diagnostic process. In this process, data mining techniques have achieved interesting and successful results. However, when it comes to prognosis the same quality of results is not being achieve...

In this paper, we presented the annotation propagation tool we designed to be used in conjunction with the BRAT rapid annotation tool. We designed two experiments to annotate a corpus of 60 files, first not using our tool, second using our propagation tool. We evaluated the annotation time and the quality of annotations. We shown that using the annotation propagation tool reduces by 31.7% the t...