Meteorological information and knowledge are often uncertain, ambiguous, or vaguely defined. Fuzzy logic lets expert systems perform optimally with uncertain or ambiguous data and knowledge. With a fuzzy logic framework, one can efficiently implement linguistically expressed rules derived from experts. Operational meteorology is therefore treated as a fuzzy environment. An argument is made for ...

Medical protocols are widely recognised to provide clinicians with high-quality and up-to-date recommendations. A critical condition for this is of course that the protocols themselves are of high quality. In this paper we investigate the use of critiquing for improving the quality of medical protocols. We constructed a detailed formal model of the jaundice protocol of the American Association ...

Over the past decade, our group has developed a suite of decision tools based on example critiquing to help users find their preferred products in e-commerce environments. In this chapter, we survey important usability research work relative to example critiquing and summarize the major results by deriving a set of usability guidelines. Our survey is focused on three key interaction activities ...

AI Planning for many years was concerned with solving problems in small, controlled domains like the Blocksworld, and testing the algorithms on small, pathological problems like the Sussman anomaly. Lately the eld has taken on two new goals: to apply planning techniques to more realistic worlds, and to nd a better way to validate the research eorts. One solution that is gaining popularity is to...

This paper argues that effectively communicating information to users who are involved in timecritical activities requires specialized capabilities for evaluating situations, filtering out the appropriate information, and producing easily accessible output. Simply displaying advice under such circumstances is unlikely to have a significant impact since it requires having the user’s full attenti...

Crises demand swift and effective decision-making; yet there are many problems in training personnel on the skills necessary to achieve the goals of crisis management. This paper has three objectives concerning training for crisis management. First we integrate diverse literatures and present a framework for an understanding of the unique challenges in crisis management training, and the role o...

Aging is a three-stage process: metabolism, damage, and pathology. The biochemical processes that sustain life generate toxins as an intrinsic side effect. These toxins cause damage, of which a small proportion cannot be removed by any endogenous repair process and thus accumulates. This accumulating damage ultimately drives age-related degeneration. Interventions can be designed at all three s...

The increasing complexities of clinical trials have led to increasing costs for investigators and organizations that author and administer those trials. The process of authoring a clinical trial protocol, the document that specifies the details of the study, is usually a manual task, and thus authors may introduce subtle errors in medical and procedural content. We have created a protocol inspe...