Care pathways are excellent tools for the standardization of care delivery and the improvement of clinical efficiency. The high dynamism and unpredictability of the clinical environment require pathways to be adaptable to the deviations that may arise during their execution. In this work we present a methodology for the identification, monitoring, detection and managing of these deviations. Suc...

ning Systems Conference was the first of its kind. Its goal was to create planning domains that a wide variety of planning researchers could agree on to make comparison among planners more meaningful, measure overall progress in the field, and set up a framework for long-term creation of a repository of problems in a standard notation. A rules committee for the competition was created in 1997 a...

Precedent studies have revealed a strong relationship between discrete events formalisms and formalisms for temporal reasoning in Artiicial Intelligence. Both areas typically deal with temporal or dynamic domains, but under diierent points of view. Discrete events formalisms are intended for the analysis of the represented system, predicting its behavior by simulation. Artiicial Intelligence ap...

Testing concurrent programs is more difficult than testing sequential programs due to the interleaving explosion problem: even for a fixed program input, there are numerous different runs that need to be tested to account for scheduler behaviour. Testing all such interleavings is not practical. Consequently, most effective testing algorithms attempt to generate runs that are likely to manifest ...

To perform surveillance tasks effectively, unobstructed views of objects are required e.g. unobstructed video of objects are often needed for gait recognition. As a result, we need to determine intervals for video collection during which a desired object is visible w.r.t. a given sensor. In addition, these intervals are in the future so that the system can effectively plan and schedule sensors ...

Humans have an impressive ability to solve even computationally complex problems. Limited cognitive processing capabilities, however, impede an exhaustive search of the problem space. Thus, planning problems of the same size may require a different cognitive effort. Formal complexity aspects are inherent to a problem and set computational limits that a solver must deal with. For a measure of co...

A continuous monitoring of sea level changes is important for human society since more than 50% of the world’s population live within 60 km of the coast. Sea level is traditionally observed with tide gauges that give measurements relative to the Earth’s crust. To improve the understanding of sea level changes it is necessary to perform measurements with respect to the Earth’s center of gravity....

Generating accurate and unbiased wall-to-wall canopy height maps from airborne lidar data for large regions is useful to forest scientists and natural resource managers. However, mapping large areas often involves using lidar data from different projects, with varying acquisition parameters. In this work, we address the important question of whether one can accurately model canopy heights over ...

. Abstract: Polychaete species composition, abundance and seasonal variation were analyzed in relation to Spartina alterniflora cover and tide levei at Ponta do Arrozal, Cananéia, during 1989/1990. Two intertidal stations were located on the S. alterniflora OOlt,one ca mean high water of neap tides (MHWN) and the other ca mean high water of spring tides (MHWS). Two other stations were establish...