AIM To explore how the content design of a computerized nursing care plan affects nurses' perceptions of their documentation experience, specifically in making care plans. BACKGROUND Nurses' attitudes towards and experiences of computer use in daily practice have been studied. However, no studies have examined how using a computerized nursing care planning system affects nurses' perceptions o...

EKS-VI is a prototype Knowledge Base Management System providing extensive inferential capabilities on large amount of data. This documentation is a det.ailed description of the design, the architecture and the implementation of the EKS-VI system. European Computer-Industry Research Centre GmbH Arabellastr. 17 D-8000 Miinchen 81 Germany

We describe how to use propositional model counting for a quantitative analysis of product configuration data. Our approach computes valuable meta information such as the total number of valid configurations or the relative frequency of components. This information can be used to assess the severity of documentation errors or to measure documentation quality. As an application example we show h...

Project idea Supplying technical documentat ion accompanying a product in multiple languages is a growing problem, particularly in Europe with its legislation on the common market. A huge amount of translation work needs to be done when creating and updating technical documentation. In response to these needs, the T E C H D O C project aims at supporting the creation and maintenance of technica...

Knowledge-based systems (KBSs) or expert systems (ESs) are able to solve problems generally through the application of knowledge representing a domain and a set of inference rules. In knowledge engineering (KE), the use of KBSs in the real world, three principal disadvantages have been encountered. First, the knowledge acquisition process has a very high cost in terms of money and time. Second,...

A great part of a company's product knowledge is often only available as natural language documents. The disadvantages of this source of information are its informal structure, the lack of actuality and general interdepartmental accessibility. We propose a way to integrate knowledge about a speciic product contained in technical documentation into corporate memory. By analysing e.g. maintenance...

Image understanding systems rely heavily on a priori knowledge of their application domain, often exploiting techniques developed in the wider field of knowledge-based systems (KBSs). Despite attempts, typified by the KADS/CommonKADS projects, to develop structured knowledge engineering approaches to KBS development, those working in image understanding continue to employ unstructured 1 generat...

At present, the false claim cases related to insurance fraud emerge endlessly. In respect of frequent fraud cases of social insurance undertaken by government organizations, the inspection procedure usually relies on experts’ experience for verification and experienced personnel in charge of checking. However, due to heavy work load insufficient manpower and lack of experience, the ratio of mis...

In this paper, an approach for program and algorithm synthesis within a higher-order framework is presented that allows us to generate new algorithm structures together with readable documentation which enable users to conveniently inspect the results of this synthesis process. The synthesis approach is based on feature graphs as a higherorder data type for specifying synthesis types like proof...

Due to increasing competitive pressures and growing and increasing sustainabilityoriented stakeholder requirements, companies are forced to shape business processes efficiently by integrating their management systems (MS). Previous research provided more general, theoretically based insights with a lack of practical relevance and links to the theoretical knowledge base. In contrast, this paper ...