Since 1996, the core Use Case Map (UCM) notation has remained remarkably stable. As the structure and intent of workflow and scenario languages are very similar, UCMs have been applied to scenario, workflow, and business process modeling. The recent rise of workflow languages for the description of business processes and web services resulted in a more formal assessment method for such language...

Diversity content is often met with covert and overt resistance in the classroom. Utilisation of a balanced learning model may address classroom resistance. Balanced learning models require ‘backwards’ course planning, equal attention to course content and class process, and a strategic use of cyclical course design to include introduction of new materiel, experience, followed by personal refle...

There is evidence that the application of Quint Studer's Hardwiring Excellence approach to organizational change is associated with significant accomplishments in hospitals. The authors' review finds the Studer approach to be closely aligned with management-related concepts of motivation and feedback, social networks, human capital, social capital, management by objectives, evidence based manag...

We live amidst a digital revolution occurring in mobile healthcare. The remarkable and explosive progress in wireless medical devices has been catalyzed by the software of apps and the hardware of “adds.” Wireless diagnostics tools such as the AliveCor smartphoneenabled electrocardiograph, the vScan pocket ultrasound, and the CellScope smartphone-based otoscope are poised to deliver diagnostic ...

In this work we propose a probabilistic hierarchical generative approach for users’ preference data, which is designed to overcome the limitation of current methodologies in Recommender Systems and thus to meet both prediction and recommendation accuracy. The Bayesian Hierarchical User Community Model (BH-UCM) focuses both on modeling the popularity of items and the distribution over item ratin...

Telecommunication services are provided as the joint effort of components, which collaborate in order to achieve the goal(s) of the service. UML 2.0 collaborations can be used to model services. Furthermore, they allow services to be described modularly and incrementally, since collaborations can be composed of subordinate collaborations. For such an approach to work, it is necessary to capture...

Most publicly available datasets for image classification are with single labels, while images inherently multi-labeled in our daily life. Such an annotation gap makes many pre-trained single-label models fail practical scenarios. This issue is more concerned aerial images: Aerial data collected from sensors naturally cover a relatively large land area multiple annotated datasets, which (e.g., ...