Those involved in the improvement science community have much to celebrate as more resources become available to improve patient safety. Professor Kathleen Steven’s letter in this issue reminds us there is still much to do and that progress depends on building the scientific basis for improved patient safety and health outcomes. Professor Stevens’ letter builds on Professor Pearson’s promotion ...

Irritability, the property of response to the forces in the environment , is present in even the more primitive living cells. If a weak electric shock or touch is applied to an amoeba, it will immediately respond with a movement exemplified by a flow of its protoplasm. It will also respond to temperature, oxygen, pH, and various other environmental stimuli. Yet this primitive single-cell organi...

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The idea of evolving novel rather than fit solutions has recently been offered as a way to automatically discover the kind of complex solutions that exhibit truly intelligent behavior. So far, novelty search has only been studied in the context of problems where the number of possible “different” solutions has been limited. In this paper, we show, using a task with a much larger solution space,...

Agile Approaches arose in the world of software development. Frequent releases provide early feedback with respect to requirements, technology and business value. Focused and empowered teams deliver huge amounts of software with very high quality. Transferring these concepts to the world of embedded development, the greatest challenge are frequent releases due to the interdependency of requirem...