The practice of cardiovascular surgery demands daily interface with sophisticated technologies including most commonly the cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) machine. Although other industries have recognized the importance of considering human factors in the design of machines to reduce operator error, the evolution of the CPB machine over the past half-century has been characterized by incremental ...

this paper aims to recognize and evaluate the dimensions of market orientation with an emphasis on hr roles in iran banking industry. to achieve this purpose, this paper is structured in two phases. in the first phase, we tried to recognize the dimensions of market orientation with an emphasis on hr roles in banking industry by using comments of marketing and hrm experts and bank staffs. in the...

Developing a question answering (QA) system is a task of implementing and integrating modules of different technologies and evaluating an integrated whole system, which inevitably goes with a collaboration among experts of different domains. For supporting a easy collaboration, this demonstration presents the open framework that aims to support developing a QA system in collaborative and intuit...

Welcome to the AAAI-99 & GECCO-99 Workshop on Data Mining with Evolutionary Algorithms: Research Directions. The main motivation for the workshop is to discuss research integrating two areas, namely data mining and evolutionary algorithms. The workshop consists of six paper presentations, which will promote interesting discussions and exchange of ideas among the attendees. These papers were sel...

BACKGROUND The diagnosis of and criteria for the evaluation of asbestos-related disease impairment remains controversial after decades of research. Assessing agreement among experts who study pneumoconiosis, and diagnose and treat patients with asbestos-related respiratory conditions may be the first step in clarifying clinical and forensic/administrative issues associated with asbestos-related...

the purpose of this study was to survey impacts of drought on socio-economic conditions of guilan paddy farmers. besides recognizing these impacts, it ranked them according to the viewpoint of the paddy farmers. it was of the descriptive- correlation type. questionnaire was the main tool of this study. to determine the validity of questionnaire used of comments of panel experts and reliability ...

the aim of present work is study of factors affecting the acceptance of soil conservation measures by the farmers in shirvan & chardavol township which is one of the main agricultural areas in the province of ilam. this is an analytical comparative research that is done by survey method. the statistical population consisted of all the farmers of shirvan & chardavol township which are 8099 peopl...

This paper presents some results from an industrial project to develop high-integrity digital hardware by integrating formal methods with a more traditional informal approach. The ultimate goal of the project team was to produce sythesisable VHDL that could be proven to meet given requirements for an embedded controller. The burden was on the formal methods experts to integrate themselves into ...

This paper introduces an approach for integrating business models and ontologies supported by the PROMOTE knowledge management system, applied in the LD-CAST project in order to involve domain experts from the business layer into the aspects of the actual service delivery situated in the IT layer. The use case in LD-CAST is the cross-border interaction between European Chambers of Commerce and ...

Expertise retrieval has attracted significant interest in the field of information retrieval. Expert finding has been studied extensively, with less attention going to the complementary task of expert profiling, that is, automatically identifying topics about which a person is knowledgeable. We describe a test collection for expert profiling in which expert users have self-selected their knowle...