The growing part of the New Technologies of Information and Communication (NTIC) comes along with the passage on numeric support of many documentary capitals. So, we attend gradually the digitalization of working documents of all kinds: medical files, educational files, technical documentations, etc. But how make sure that this change of paradigm benefits the readers and the authors of document...

OBJECTIVE This study evaluated a computerized method for extracting numeric clinical measurements related to diabetes care from free text in electronic patient records (EPR) of general practitioners. DESIGN AND MEASUREMENTS Accuracy of this number-oriented approach was compared to manual chart abstraction. Audits measured performance in clinical practice for two commonly used electronic recor...

In a context where software performs numeric calculations on the basis of incomplete or contradictory data, the end user might want to see not only the calculated results, but also information about the quality of the results. The Value with Quality pattern bundles a value together with its quality, and automates the propagation of quality to dependent results.

Many classification algorithms require that training examples contain only discrete values. In order to use these algorithms when some attributes have continuous numeric values, the numeric attributes must be converted into discrete ones. This paper describes a new way of discretizing numeric values using information theory. Our method is context-sensitive in the sense that it takes into accoun...

This case study shows how ACL2 can be used to reason about the real and complex numbers, using non-standard analysis. It describes some modifications to ACL2 that include the irrational real and complex numbers in ACL2’s numeric system. It then shows how the modified ACL2 can prove classic theorems of analysis, such as the intermediate-value and mean-value theorems.

Previous research has demonstrated that judgmental anchoring effects—the assimilation of a numeric estimate to a previously considered standard—are semantic in nature. They result because the semantic knowledge about the target object that is activated during the comparison with the anchor influences the absolute judgment. In addition to this semantic influence, the numeric anchor value itself ...

We extend a planning algorithm to cover simple forms of arithmetics. The operator preconditions can refer to the values of numeric variables and the operator postconditions can modify the values of numeric variables. The basis planning algorithm is based on techniques from propositional satisfiability testing and does not restrict to forward or backward chaining. When several operations affect ...

A significant amount of interaction involves number entry. The purpose of any number entry interface is to accurately select or set a numeric value. There are two main styles of number entry interfaces found on medical devices: serial interfaces like the ubiquitous 12-key numeric keypad, and incremental interfaces that use a knob or a pair of keys to increase or decrease numbers. We report an e...

We extend a planning algorithm to cover simple forms of arithmetics. The operator preconditions can refer to the values of numeric variables and the operator postconditions can modify the values of numeric variables. The basis planning algorithm is based on techniques from propositional satissability testing and does not restrict to forward or backward chaining. When several operations aaect a ...

data aims at considering numeric data, categorical data or a mixture of both. For such data, the concentration was finding a relationship between the data points to be clustered. The relationships were limited to being either binary or fuzzy. Both involved a numeric value called distance or any other similarity measure between two data points and cluster them together if found similar. With tim...