When electing a committee from the pool of individual candidates, it is not sufficient to elicit voters preferences among individual candidates and one should also take into account voters’ opinions about synergetic effects of candidate interactions if they are jointly elected into a committee. We propose an approval voting method in which each voter selects a set of candidates indicating his o...

There are several questions about hydration in terminal care: the discussion about whether or not, and if yes how much and by which route? Shows hydration any benefits regarding survival and symptom-control? Are there side-effects of hydration? The article tries to give an overview rather than a review over the literature of the last 10 years since there is no evidence about this topic. Three s...

In this paper an application of guided local search (GLS) to the problem of natural language parsing is presented. The given parsing approach is situated in a constraint based parsing paradigm [10] that allows natural language processing in a robust and resource adaptive way [16]. Some extensions of GLS are introduced, most notably a multi-threaded search where a couple of agents cooperate with...

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Knowledge-Management (KM)-systems integrate multiple technologies with the purpose of supporting users who have "knowledge-related" problems. Case-Based Reasoning (CBR)-technology is well known for improving problem solutions. Combining both concepts the project "TO_KNOW" has the goal to design a CBR-component that is adaptable to typical KM-Systems. The basic idea is to take into account user-...