The north west England faculty patients' liaison group, supported by community health councils and family practitioner committees, surveyed patients' perceptions of accessibility to general practitioners in seven districts in 1985 and 1986. Findings on appointment systems, telephone access and out-of-hours calls are compared with those from other surveys. The results show that patients' satisfa...

presence of distributed generation (dg) in electric distribution systems provides an attractive new alternative in capacity expansion planning of these systems. in this paper a new model is developed for solving simultaneous placement of hv/mv substations and dg units as a static planning tool. this model aims to minimize fixed and variable costs of planning. constraints related to dgs, substat...

in this paper, first, a new criterion, titled “surplus percent of the customers” is defined for static transmission expansion planning in restructured power systems. then by a simple example, the new criterion is compared with some already presented market-based criteria and it is shown that the new criterion can realistically evaluate the transmission network expansion from the market view. in...

Verbmobil is a speech-to-speech translation system for spontaneous dialogues. It provides mobile phone users with simultaneous dialogue translation services in English, German and Japanese for restricted topics. These topics are appointment scheduling, travel planning and remote PC maintenance. The system is special in that it mediates a dialogue by continuously monitoring and processing the pa...

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Appointment scheduling is a problem faced daily by many individuals and organizations. Cooperating agent systems have been developed to partially automate this task. In order to extend the circle of participants as far as possible we advocate the use of natural language transmitted by email. We describe Cosma, a fully implemented German language server for existing appointment scheduling agent ...

Appointment scheduling is a problem faced daily by many individuals and organizations. Cooperating agent systems have been developed to partially automate this task. In order to extend the circle of participants as far as possible we advocate the use of natural language transmitted by email. We describe Cosma, a fully implemented German language server for existing appointment scheduling agent ...

important to avoid just adding another set of prescriptions to professionals’ workloads and another layer of guilt for not living up to best practice at all times. The need for health professionals to understand why an individual child was not brought to their appointment is recognised as important but we require the necessary systems to achieve this and to be able to ask the question ‘Why was ...