Adequate data acquired through the Wizard of Oz experimental prototyping method are still crucial to the cost-effective development of advanced spoken language dialogue systems. One important source of data corruption is the unintended priming of subjects through the task scenario representations used in the experiments. The paper presents the three sets of development and test scenario represe...

Driven by a trend towards renewable forms of generation, in particular wind, the nature of power system operation is changing. With respect to wind power, the uncertainty of the wind becomes an issue which must be considered. Through the use of wind forecasting, this uncertainty may be managed. The error inherent in forecasting will impact system reliability and cost as will inaccuracies in ass...

Scenario-based models of reactive systems divide complex specifications into artifacts corresponding to separate aspects of overall system behavior, as they may appear, e.g., in a robot’s requirements document or user manual. The advantages of scenario-based development include intuitiveness and clarity, the ability to execute or simulate specifications of early prototypes and of final systems,...

nowadays energy has significant role in socio economic development of counties; any decision on energy sector may affect the broad area in societies. system approach in energy modeling as an efficient method is known by many researchers in management and planning in a country particularly in energy sector. also system dynamics is one of the efficient methods, for reason unique ability at solvin...

In this paper, the author reports findings from research concerning the planning of learning scenarios in education. The purpose of the research is to explore the value of this scenario planning and reflection-on-action. In particular, the research objective is to explore how this innovative method can guide the adoption of ICT in education and cultivate competencies for lifelong and lifewide l...

This position paper examines a critical paradox in e-health: there is a striking gap between critical information services for health care that can be implemented today using existing in information and communication technologies and those services that are actually available. Facets of this paradox are examined in the context of Canadian analyses and policy, advanced research on health care re...

A generation method of scenarios using differential information between normal scenarios is presented. Behaviours of normal scenarios belonging to the same problem domain are quite similar. We derive the differential information between them and apply the information to generate new alternative/exceptional scenarios. Our method will be illustrated with examples. This paper describes (1) a langu...

Nowadays, the service industries play an essential role in the economic development of countries, and among the various fields of insurance, life insurance is of particular importance because it covers its cover directly to humans. Increased competition in the insurance industry has led managers to seek marketing strategies that, in addition to increasing insurance sales, reduce costs and gain ...