today, through out the world, medical education has two critical needs: need for structural reform and innovative plans and then need for social accountability in terms of educational program quality and its effectiveness. educational assessment and accreditation could be considered as operational (executive) strategy to meet both needs. of outmost important as the first toward educational asse...

This paper presents a hybrid approach for developing radiation plans for high dose rate brachytherapy in cancer treatment. In order to take care of the computationally hard dose volume constraints, linear programming (LP) is alternated with heuristic neighborhood search which allows for a quick generation of multiple feasible treatment plans. The simulated annealing neighborhood search is guide...

This paper presents our ongoing work for designing and implementing a web-based Lesson Plan Creator for pre-service credential candidates in special education programs. To help reduce the workload of credential candidates as well as improve their professional teaching skills, we have designed a lesson plan creator system with the idea of shortening the amount of time required for creating sound...

This paper presents a team plan specification language that combines work in the creation of generic team plans and design of intelligent interfaces. Two key motivations for developing the language are (1) to combine inter-agent cooperation and operator interaction of complex behaviors into a single plan, and (2) to separate plan design and UI design such that they are created by application do...

We consider the problem of existence of entire solutions to the Allen-Cahn equation Δu + u - u(3) = 0 in , usually regarded as a prototype for the modeling of phase transition phenomena. In particular, exploiting the link between the Allen-Cahn equation and minimal surface theory in dimensions N ≥ 9, we find a solution, u, with ∂(x(N))u > 0, such that its level sets are close to a nonplanar, mi...

We study a singular limit problem of the Allen-Cahn equation with Neumann boundary conditions and general initial data of uniformly bounded energy. We prove that the time-parametrized family of limit energy measures is Brakke’s mean curvature flow with a generalized right angle condition on the boundary.

Using a model calibrated to Khao Yai National Park in Thailand, this paper highlights the importance of generating explicitly spatial and temporal data for developing management plans for tropical protected forests. Spatial and temporal cost-benefit analysis should account for the interactions between different land uses – such as the benefits of contiguous areas of preserved land and edge effe...

We are extending the real-time performance guarantees provided by CIRCA into distributed multi-agent systems. In particular, we are developing methods for teams of CIRCA agents to build coordinated plans that include explicit runtime communications to support distributed real-time reactivity to the environment. These teams will then build plans in which different agents use their unique capabil...