I survey some recent applications-oriented NL generation systems, and claim that despite very different theoretical backgrounds, these systems have a remarkably similar architecture in terms of the modules they divide the generation process into, the computations these modules perform, and the way the modules interact with each other. I also compare this 'consensus architecture' among applied N...

BACKGROUND: NAP CONSENSUS FORUM – INTERPROFESSIONAL HEALTH CARE IN THE 21 CENTURY, APRIL 28, 2000 The National Academies of Practice (NAP) is an organization of practice-oriented health professionals from ten disciplines: dentistry, medicine, nursing, optometry, osteopathic medicine, pharmacy, podiatric medicine, psychology, social work, and veterinary medicine. The NAP mission is to improve he...

OBJECTIVES Due to the non-commercial, research-oriented context, software in medical informatics research projects is often developed by researchers as a proof-of-concept without applying structured software development process models. A guideline for software development can bring sufficient structure to the development process while avoiding the complexity of industry-standard methods. METH...

In some democratic contexts, there is a strong aversion to the directive, individualistic and masculine expressions of leadership that have come to dominate the study of political leadership. Such leadership is antithetical to consensus democracies in parts of continental Europe, where the antipathy to leadership has linguistic, institutional as well as cultural dimensions. Political-administra...

Attaining consensus among the success-critical stakeholders is crucial for the success of any software engineering project. Extreme Programming (XP) addresses this fact by providing a set of negotiation-oriented practices. In this paper we discuss negotiation techniques that would nicely complement XP. We present the EasyWinWin requirements negotiation approach and discuss its potential benefit...

There is a growing consensus of opinion (WHO 1975) that in developing countries, doctors and para-medical staff of the existing health care cadres should, after a short course of problem oriented training, deliver basic mental health care. This paper describes the development and evaluation of such a training programme.

anaging for Development Results (MfDR) is multidimensional, relating back to concepts about how to make international development more effective and results-oriented and to practical performance management tools. MfDR builds on several years of work by public sector institutions and development agencies, and reflects an emerging global consensus on the importance of performance measurement in i...

It is often assumed—and current reports from research and industry confirm this assumption—that a prototyping-oriented development methodology can ameliorate some of the weaknesses of the life cycleoriented development approach. Specialists have not arrived at a consensus on what methods and tools are necessary for supporting prototyping-oriented software development. Based on the results of a ...

Anycast is a new IPv6 feature that supports service–oriented address assignments in IPv6 networks. However, because there are no protocol standards or even consensus on routing protocols, inter–segment anycast communications are not yet available. In this paper, we first discuss problems and solutions on inter–segment anycast communications. Based on our findings, we propose two routing protoco...