Today, a great deal of data is generated in the medical field. Acquiring useful knowledge from this raw data requires data processing and detection of meaningful patterns and this objective can be achieved through data mining. Using data mining to diagnose and prognose heart diseases has become one of the areas of interest for researchers in recent years. In this study, the literature on the ap...

Companion papers develop a model of real-time hierarchical computation of resource allocations by boundedly rational members of an administrative staff. The nodes of a hierarchy are multiperson decision-making units offices. The current paper uses a reduced form to address specific questions about organizational structure and returns to scale. We find that the possibility of decentralizing deci...

This chapter reports our knowledge about the analysis and recognition of scanned administrative documents. Regarding essentially the administrative paper flow with new and continuous arrivals, all the conventional techniques reserved to static databases modeling and recognition are doomed to failure. For this purpose, a new technique based on the experience was investigated giving very promisin...