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C olleagues in my research group and in collaborating institutions typically model software designs using graph-ical tools such as Rational Rose, Together, and Visio. I often witness them toiling to adjust a graph's appearance with the mouse or laboriously visiting each class to change a single field's type. This need not be so. Design models should be composed textually, and graphs should be a...

Recently in switching the information between patients, staffs and hospitals, the Healthcare Web Portals (HWP) play a crucial role as a media tool to attain the challenging objectives of the quality of patient care and controlling operating costs. Looking wisely at literature shows that most prior researches have only focused on dimensions of e-service quality as the non-human actors. However, ...

Our research investigates the competitive ramifications of individual marketing and information management in today’s information-intensive marketing environments. The specific managerial issues we address are as follows. First, what kinds of incentive environments do competing firms face when they can only target individual customers imperfectly? Second, does the improvement in an industry’s t...

In this paper we take a critical look at PDDL 2.1 as designers and users of plan domain description languages. We describe planning domains that have features which are hard to model using PDDL 2.1. We then offer some suggestions on domain description language design, and describe how these suggestions make modeling our chosen domains easier. The Loyal Opposition PDDL has served as the underpin...