BACKGROUND Worldwide nearly 3 million people die from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) every year. Integrated disease management (IDM) improves quality of life for COPD patients and can reduce hospitalization. Self-management of COPD through eHealth is an effective method to improve IDM and clinical outcomes. OBJECTIVES The objective of this implementation study was to investigate...

OBJECTIVES We compared catheter-based electromechanical mapping (NOGA system, Biosense-Webster, Haifa, Israel) with positron emission tomography (PET) and single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) for prediction of reversibly dysfunctional myocardium (RDM) and irreversibly dysfunctional myocardium (IDM) in patients with severe left ventricular dysfunction. Furthermore, we established t...

Walley’s Imprecise Dirichlet Model (IDM) for categorical i.i.d. data extends the classical Dirichlet model to a set of priors. It overcomes several fundamental problems which other approaches to uncertainty suffer from. Yet, to be useful in practice, one needs efficient ways for computing the imprecise=robust sets or intervals. The main objective of this work is to derive exact, conservative, a...

Walley’s Imprecise Dirichlet Model (IDM) for categorical data overcomes several fundamental problems which other approaches to uncertainty suffer from. Yet, to be useful in practice, one needs efficient ways for computing the imprecise=robust sets or intervals. The main objective of this work is to derive exact, conservative, and approximate, robust and credible interval estimates under the IDM...

In order to introduce a realistic simulation environment to support the research on vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs), the human behavior must be studied, understood and included in the mobility model representing the vehicles movement. This paper studies the behavior of the driver concerning specifically the decision to change the lane. Our study is based on real world observations and safety...

The naive credal classifier (NCC) extends naive Bayes classifier (NBC) to imprecise probabilities to robustly deal with the specification of the prior; NCC models a state of ignorance by using a set of priors, which is formalized by Walley’s Imprecise Dirichlet Model (IDM). NCC has been shown to return more robust classification than NBC. However, there are particular situations (which we preci...

The Intelligent Database Machine (IDM), manufactured by Britton-Lee Inc., is a back-end processor and storage system that contains a complete data management system. It includes specialized hardware to perform data management functions. It is our contention that the designers of a database machine must choose a focus for their machine which strongly influences other design decisions. The IDM is...

Web service-oriented architecture (WSOA) is a promising paradigm for future software development. Necessary identity management (IdM) architectures for WSOA are just being prepared to enable fine-grained access control. With the loose coupling of Web services with crosscutting identity services the question arises how to develop access control policies for Web services. In this paper we present...

A novel methodology is presented for the manufacturing cost and reliability-based optimization of plate structures with boundary element method (BEM), aim improving accuracy, robustness, efficiency aircraft structures. The BEM formulations respect to thickness are derived first time, used as part an implicit differentiation (IDM), enabling full shape BEM. These derivatives validated against obt...

We present the interface diffraction method (IDM), an efficient technique to determine the response of planar photonic crystal waveguides and couplers containing arbitrary defects. Field profiles in separate regions of a structure are represented through two contrasting approaches: the plane wave expansion method in the cladding and a scattering matrix method in the core. These results are comb...