BACKGROUND The process of constructing a systematic review, a document that compiles the published evidence pertaining to a specified medical topic, is intensely time-consuming, often taking a team of researchers over a year, with the identification of relevant published research comprising a substantial portion of the effort. The standard paradigm for this information-seeking task is to use Bo...

We describe the Deep Space Network’s scheduling problem based on a user requirement language. The problem is difficult to encode by almost all existing planning and scheduling systems. We describe how it can be mapped into a system that supports metric resources, durative action, simple temporal network constraints, and task hierarchy among other language features. We also describe how we adapt...

Collecting and analysing all available literature before starting a new animal experiment is important and it is indispensable when writing systematic reviews of animal research. In practice, finding all animal studies relevant to a specific research question turns out to be anything but simple. In order to facilitate this search process, we previously developed a search filter for retrieving a...

Stochastic search has recently been shown to be successful for solving large boolean satissability problems. However, systematic methods tend to be more eeective in problem domains with a large number of dependent variables: that is, variables whose truth values are directly determined by a smaller set of independent variables. In systematic search, truth values can be ee-ciently propagated fro...

Consider the problem of control selection in complex dynamical and environmental scenarios where model predictive control (MPC) proves particularly effective. As the performance of MPC is highly dependent on the efficiency of its incorporated search algorithm, this work examined hill climbing as an alternative to traditional systematic or random search algorithms. The relative performance of a ...

BACKGROUND Shiftworking has long been unrecognised as an occupational health hazard up until now. METHODS Electronic databases were searched using OVID host as the main search engine for Medline, PUBMED and CINHAL during the years 1990-December 2010. Combinations of the keywords yielded 35 full papers and ab-stracts, of which 16 articles were relevant. One paper was not in English, leaving 15...

OBJECTIVE To identify estimates of time taken to search grey literature in support of health sciences systematic reviews and to identify searcher or systematic review characteristics that may impact resource selection or time spent searching. METHODS A survey was electronically distributed to searchers embarking on a new systematic review. Characteristics of the searcher and systematic review...

Emotions play an important role in human behavior, even more so in large congregations of people where emotional states are prompt to be contaged and amplified. This work presents a qualitative systematic review of the literature concerning the estimation of emotions and affects in real-life crowded environments, covering the aspects of methods and datasets. The academic search engine Scopus wa...