critical care group expert practice development group, representing leading-edge practice.7 The project team was tasked to report and recommend methods that accurately and robustly capture and verify evidence of knowledge and application of skills of advanced practice capability. Additionally, the project was to evaluate systematically the evidence of knowledge and application of skills of adva...

The Open Mind Common Sense project is an attempt to construct a database of commonsense knowledge through the collaboration of a distributed community of thousands of non-expert netizens. We give an overview of the project, describe our knowledge acquisition and representation strategy of using natural language rather than formal logic, and demonstrate this strategy with a search engine applica...

This paper describes a proposed best-practices system that will present expert knowledge in the use of CFD. The best-practices system will include specific guidelines to assist the user in problem definition, input preparation, grid generation, code selection, parameter specification, and results interpretation. The goal of the system is to assist all CFD users in obtaining high quality CFD sol...

There has been an increasing interest in studying animal behaviours [1]. In the EU funded project “ChiRoPing: Developing Versatile and Robust perception using Sonar Systems that Integrate Active Sensing, Morphology and Behaviour” [2], the interest is placed on Chiroptera (bats) as bats are the nature’s expert in active sonar sensing [3]. Study of bats’ behaviour is not only of biological intere...

Large-scale linguistically annotated resources have become available in recent years. This is partly due to sophisticated automatic and semiautomatic approaches that work well on specific tasks such as part-ofspeech tagging. For more complex linguistic phenomena like anaphora resolution there are no tools that result in high-quality annotations without massive user intervention. Annotated corpo...

In this paper we describe the usability evaluation experiments of the Query tool system done in the context of the SEWASIE (SEmantic Webs and AgentS in Integrated Economies) project. The usability evaluation is an important step of the User-Centered Design Methodology, followed to develop the SEWASIE system. This European IST project aims at enabling a uniform access to heterogeneous data sourc...

Human disease diagnosis is a complicated process and requires high level of expertise. Any attempt of developing a web-based expert system dealing with human disease diagnosis has to overcome various difficulties. This paper describes a project work aiming to develop a web-based fuzzy expert system for diagnosing human diseases. Now a days fuzzy systems are being used successfully in an increas...

oversees development of analytical papers for the purpose of providing useful and timely input to the climate change negotiations. These papers may also be useful to national policy makers and other decision-makers. In a collaborative effort, authors work with the Annex I Expert Group to develop these papers. However, the papers do not necessarily represent the views of the OECD or the IEA, nor...

Knowledge work is becoming the predominant type of work in many countries and is involved in the most important processes in organizations. Despite its increasing importance business information systems still lack appropriate support for knowledge-intensive processes, since existing workflow management solutions are too rigid and provide no means to deal with unpredictable situations. Future bu...

The development of two probabilistic accident consequence codes sponsored by the European Commission and the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, COSYMA and MACCS respectively, was completed in 1990. These codes estimate the risks and other endpoints associated with accidents from hypothesised nuclear installations. In 1991, both commissions sponsored a joint project for an uncertainty ...