In this paper, we present an expert system, called PASS (Predicting Ability of Students to Succeed), which is used to predict how certain is that a student of a specific type of high school in Greece will pass the national exams for entering a higher education institute. Prediction is made at two points. An initial prediction is made after the second year of studies and the final after the end ...

We consider software systems consisting of a single component running one sequential process only. We model such software systems as a special class of transition systems. We propose an exhaustive test procedure that uses the knowledge of system structure and the prior test history. Since exhaustive testing is not always feasible, we also present a statistical release procedure based on the cha...

Computer based learning gets more and more important in higher education. Particularly, in Legal domain, students have little chance to deal with realistic situations. One way to alleviate this problem is to provide Law students with real cases, rules and different viewpoints of which a given body of knowledge is often recognized as important to their successful learning. We propose a novel app...

Expert systems have been developed around one expert part ly because the expert has been totally responsible for the soundness of the knowledge base. Without strong aids to help ensure soundness in building expert systems, we must rely on the soundness of the mature cohesiveness of a human expert. As knowledge bases grow this mature expertise will not be adequate. We propose a new method (for e...

Background and objectives: The kidneys of chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients do not have enough function and hemodialysis (HD) is a common procedure for their treatment. HD requires vascular access surgery (VAS) and arteriovenous fistula (AVF) is a low-complication method in VAS. However, different rates of AVF failure have been reported worldwide which can cause repeating s...

The idea of the Internet of Things (IoT) has turned out to be increasingly prominent in the cuttingedge period of innovation than at any other time. From little family unit gadgets to extensive modernmachines, the vision of IoT has made it conceivable to interface the gadgets with the physical worldaround them. This expanding prominence has likewise made the IoT gadgets and ap...

The survival and growth of the banking industry, on the one hand, requires the trust and satisfaction of individuals in the community, on the other hand, requires financial health. In this research, we seek to evaluate the impact of activity-based management on indices of banking health in the banking system of IR Iran. The activity-based management tools examined in this study are activity-bas...

Evidence has been mounting (over the centuries) that the interest based debt financing regime is under ever increasing distress. All of the earlier crises whatever label they carried− exchange rate crisis or banking crisis – have been debt crises in essence. At the present, empirical research suggests that the debt-to-GDP ratio of the richest members of the G-20 threatens to touch 120% m...