Somatic genetic CDKN2A, TP53, and DNA content abnormalities are common in many human cancers and their precursors, including esophageal adenocarcinoma (EA) and Barrett’s esophagus (BE), conditions for which aspirin and other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) have been proposed as possible chemopreventive agents; however, little is known about the ability of a biomarker panel to pred...

Understanding urban development and defining the problems are essential in urban planning process. Collection and analysis of data are methods that are used to define urban space and its problems. Information systems and computer models are significant tools for applying these methods. Use of information technologies are key components to urban planning education. The syllabus for the fourth se...

We argue that many AI planning problems should be viewed as process-oriented, where the aim is to produce a policy or behavior strategy with no termination condition in mind, as opposed to goal-oriented. The full power of Markov decision models, adopted recently for AI planning, becomes apparent with process-oriented problems. The question of appropriate optimality criteria becomes more critica...

Process planning in the automotive industry is referred to as advance manufacturing engineering, because it is done in advance of production — before the facilities are created. When developing these processes, simulation is typically done by service groups, not the process planner, resulting in communication errors and unnecessary iterations. Software applications are now becoming available th...

Contour Crafting is an emerging technology that uses robotics to construct free form structures by repeatedly laying down layers of material such as concrete. The Contour Crafting technology scales up the additive fabrication process from building small industrial parts to constructing buildings. Tool path planning and optimization for Contour Crafting benefit the technology by increasing the e...

This paper introduces Open Planning Process Pan els O P These panels are based on explicit mod els of the planning process and are used to coor dinate the development and evaluation of multiple courses of action We describe the generic ideas behind O P technology a general methodology for build ing O P interfaces and two applications based on O P technology the Air Campaign Planning Pro cess Pa...

The generative method is a subject of theoretical and experimental research. Difficulties with its implementation are connected with the lack of formal description of the synthesis of activities constituting the manufacturing process. To overcome the difficulties while developing the huge technological knowledge base, a semigenerative method is often used. In this method the pattern is characte...

1 I n t r o d u c t i o n Schema-based Natural Language Generation (NLG) systems, e.g., [Weiner, 1980; McKeown, 1985; Paris, 1988], determine the information to be presented based on common patterns of discourse. Goal-based planners, e.g., [Moore and Swartout, 1989; Cawsey, 1990], select a discourse operator if its prescribed effect matches a given communicative goal. If there is more than one ...

Process Management Systems (PMSs, aka Workflow Management Systems – WfMSs) are currently more and more used as a supporting tool to coordinate the enactment of processes. In real world scenarios, the environment may change in unexpected ways so as to prevent a process from being successfully carried out. In order to cope with these anomalous situations, a PMS should automatically adapt the proc...