BACKGROUND Acute care physical therapy is a rapidly evolving practice area, but little is known about the skills, knowledge, and behaviors necessary for a clinician to be most effective in this area. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to perform the first nationwide survey of acute care physical therapists to validate the knowledge, skill, and behavior sets that reflect practice parame...

The activity of re-testing of only those parts of the program or code, in which some modifications are performed to ensure that errors have not been added and the changes do not affect the other parts of the code, which have not been modified is called as regression testing. Regression testing is essential as it reduces the size of the test suite, thus reducing the time and effort for testing. ...

We deene a distributed selection game that generalizes a selection problem considered by Kosaraju 7]. We ooer a tight analysis of our distributed selection game, and show that the lower bound for this abstract communication game directly implies near-tight lower bounds for certain selection problems on xed-connection machines. For example, we prove that any deterministic comparison-based select...

We propose a Case-Based Reasoning approach for action selection in the robot soccer domain presented in the 8th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (2006). Based on the current state of a game, the robots retrieve the most similar past situation and then the team reproduces the sequence of actions performed in that occasion. In this domain we have to deal with all the difficulties that ...

A crucial skill for fluent action meshing in human team activity is a learned and calculated selection of anticipatory actions. We believe that the same holds for robotic teammates, if they are to perform in a similarly fluent manner with their human counterparts. In this work we describe a model for human robot joint action, and propose an adaptive action selection mechanism for a robotic team...

Current product-oriented database search facilities are widely used on the Internet but recognized as limited in capability for intelligent sales support. The vision of intelligent knowledgeable virtual sales agents is to incorporate more knowledge about products, customers, and the sales process into an electronic shop. This chapter describes a knowledge-based technology called case-based reas...

The problem of defining robot behaviors to completely address a large and complex set of situations is very challenging. We present an approach for robot’s action selection in the robot soccer domain using Case-Based Reasoning techniques. A case represents a snapshot of the game at time t and the actions the robot should perform in that situation. We basically focus our work on the retrieval an...

A nonrecursive version of this algorithm is of course easy to find. The work done here can be measured by the number of comparisons between elements (these occur only in the step in which S is split into S,, S, and S,). It is known that this algorithm requires f2(n’) comparisons in the worst case. The algorithm runs in average time O(n) (Aho et al. [ 11). In fact, Knuth [lo] has shown that the ...

This paper presents CBRetaliate, an agent that combines Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) and Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms. Unlike most previous work where RL is used to improve accuracy in the action selection process, CBRetaliate uses CBR to allow RL to respond more quickly to changing conditions. CBRetaliate combines two key features: it uses a time window to compute similarity and stores...

Recent innovations to improve employment rates among persons with psychiatric disabilities include "hybrid case management/employment services." Project WINS was a research/demonstration project which integrated specialized vocational services into case management teams. In this report, client outcomes of WINS involvement are evaluated, using a quasiexperimental, longitudinal design. On almost ...