Background & aim: Preeclampsia is a serious pregnancy hypertensive disorder which is associated with high maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality. One of the ways to reduce the risk of preeclampsia during pregnancy and childbirth is training midwives regarding its management. We aimed to compare the effects of mobile-based and lecture-based training methods on midwives' knowledge regardi...

While hypothetical reasoning is a useful knowledge system framework that is applicable to many practical problems, its crucial problem is its slow inference speed. The paper presents a speedup method for hypothetical reasoning systems that uses an experience-based learning mechanism which can learn knowledge from inference experiences to improve the inference speed in subsequent inference proce...

This paper describes a robot manipulator system currently under development which learns assembling technique from observation of skilled worker’s demonstrations. The system is an application of EBL (Explanation-Based Learning) to the robot manufacturing domain. The system improves the operating capability of the robot manipulator through observing, analyzing the skilled worker’s assembling ope...

In an identity based encryption scheme, each user is identified by a unique identity string. An attribute based encryption scheme (ABE), in contrast, is a scheme in which each user is identified by a set of attributes, and some function of those attributes is used to determine decryption ability for each ciphertext. Sahai and Waters introduced a single authority attribute encryption scheme and ...

This is the first paper on textual case-based reasoning to employ collective classification, a methodology for simultaneously classifying related cases that has consistently attained higher accuracies than standard classification approaches when cases are related. Thus far, case-based classifiers have not been examined for their use in collective classification. We introduce Case-Based Collecti...

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The Games With A Purpose (GWAP) genre is a type of Human Computation that outsources certain steps of the computational process to humans. By taking advantage of people’s desire to be entertained, GWAP attracts people to play voluntarily, and also produce useful metadata as a by-product. The games have shown promise in solving a variety of problems, which computer computation has been unable to...

While agents have emphasised the notion of active software components, they are not likely to be the only active components in agent-based systems. In this paper, we first discuss the general notion of active system, and show how it relates with the issue of the consistent observation of distributed and heterogeneous multi-component systems. Then, we introduce the concept of boundary interface ...

This paper surveys the practical benefits and drawbacks of several identitybased encryption schemes based on bilinear pairings. After providing some background on identity-based cryptography, we classify the known constructions into a handful of general approaches. We then describe efficient and fully-secure IBE and IBKEM instantiations of each approach, with reducibility to practice as the mai...

Different agents in a multiagent system might have different solution quality or preference criteria. Therefore, when solving problems collaboratively using CBR, case reuse must take this into account. In this paper we propose ABARC, a model for multiagent case reuse, which divides case reuse in two stages: individual reuse, where agents generate full solutions internally, and multiagent reuse,...