Lack of patient adherence to medical advice (PAMA) is recognized as an area of interest. None of the previous initiatives to improve PAMA, such as patient centered care and shared decision making, have proved to be successful in terms of improving patient adherence. The aim of the present study is to assess beliefs about priorities in public health care, and adherence to medical advice, to esta...

Abstract Scholars of international relations and public administration widely assume that bureaucracies, in their role as policy advisors, directly influence countries’ domestic policies. Yet, this is not true across the board. Why do some countries closely consider advice bureaucracies while others not? This article argues bureaucracies’ standing sources expertise crucial. We tested argument u...

In today’s knowledge-based economy, having proper expertise is crucial in resolving many tasks. Expertise Finding (EF) is the area of research concerned with matching available experts to given tasks. A standard approach is to input a task description/proposal/paper into an EF system and receive recommended experts as output. Mostly, EF systems operate either via a content-based approach, which...

In this paper, we present an algorithm for automatically building expertise evidence for finding experts within an organization by combining structured corporate information with different content. We also describe our test data collection and our evaluation method. Evaluation of the algorithm shows that using organizational structure leads to a significant improvement in the precision of findi...

The Duality of Expertise considers the “Expert” to be a social role dependent on an individual’s expertise claims and the opinion of their community towards those claims. These are the internal and external aspects of a person’s expertise. My Expertise Model incorporates this duality in a process designed for expertise finding software in an online community forum. In this model, a posting’s te...

A prototype knowledge based safety advisor system has been built. Known as SADI (Safety Advisor for the Demolition Industry), the system gives advice to those involved in the management, planning, execution and control of demolition work. The knowledge underlying what is safe and what is unsafe is contained in legislative documents, and in the expertise of the engineers, planners and inspectors...

Research on agents has led to the development of algorithms for learning from experience, accepting guidance from humans, and imitating experts. This paper explores a new direction for agents: the ability to teach other agents. In particular, we focus on situations where the teacher has limited expertise and instructs the student through action advice. The paper proposes and evaluates several t...

me aware of this opportunity and his valuable advice and flexible mentoring during this work. very much. I could always seek his advice and benefit from his excellent expertise and our productive discussions, for that I am very grateful. Furthermore, I would like to thank Alexander Förster for his continual support and countless advices. During my work in his project group " Pattern-based Busin...

We study the effects of preselection on an expert’s incentive to give truthful advice. In a decision environment in which certain decisions yield more precise estimates about the expert’s expertise, a mediocre expert’s advice is biased. We show that this bias can be undone by the introduction of a preselection stage, where the decision maker himself sometimes studies the case, and thereby alter...