Synthetic Symbolic Exploration Mathematical e.g. Gene Experimental Reasoning Therapy Art Work Examination Theorems to Clinical Art Test Trials Exhibition Exploitation e.g. Penrose Therapeutic Gallery Tiles/Patterns Treatment Sale Fig. 1: Forms and Stages of Knowledge Production What Fig. 1 shows is that all innovative knowledge of utility, by definition meaning new knowledge commercialised, mus...

Program slicing transforms a large program into a smaller one that contains only statements relevant to the computation of a given function. It has been shown that program slicing can be useful in program understanding. Traditionally, program slices are represented in the textual form. Although slicing does narrow the size of the program, the textual representation of a slice does not provide m...

In this paper we introduce the notion of portfolio optimization by maximizing expected local utility. This concept is related to maximization of expected utility of consumption but, contrary to this common approach, the discounted financial gains are consumed immediately. In a general continuous-time market optimal portfolios are obtained by pointwise solution of equations involving the semimar...

background & purpose: in the health sector, in addition to the important consequence of treatment, health system should meet the expectations regarding the desirability of services. expectations and perceptions of patients about the desirability of services play an important role in selecting hospitals, their loyalty to the organization & replanning to purchase. thus the present study has been ...

Introduction. Evaluation is a systematic way to improve and make more effective actions that involves procedures which are useful, feasible, ethical, and accurate. Common questions in all evaluations are: do all part of program do well and effective? What is the good functioning? Why the program or its parts do not work well? What are the effects and consequences of the program? Is this progra...

introduction. evaluation is a systematic way to improve and make more effective actions that involves procedures which are useful, feasible, ethical, and accurate. common questions in all evaluations are: do all part of program do well and effective? what is the good functioning? why the program or its parts do not work well? what are the effects and consequences of the program? is this program...

This paper presents a new method for the analysis of moral hazard principalagent problems. The new approach avoids the stringent assumptions on the distribution of outcomes made by the classical first-order approach and instead only requires the agent’s expected utility to be a rational function of the action. This assumption allows for a reformulation of the agent’s utility maximization proble...

We present some language-specific tools for the development of Modula-2 program systems. Specifically, we elaborate on an extended Modula-2 syntax checker, a makefile generation utility, a Modula-2 structure analyser and a cross reference utility.

Elicitation of an exact utility function of a decision maker is challenging. In this paper, we address the problem of ambiguity and inconsistency in utility assessments by studying a robust utility-based decision making model where the utility function belongs to a set of general increasing utility functions. We build a robust framework in which the utility function belongs to a set. This set o...