The SEPIA system allows creating assistance systems that meet technical assistance needs. In this paper, we aim at the exploitation of SEPIA in the educational context by confronting it to pedagogical assistance needs. This exploitation shows the limitations in the SEPIA system: complex description of rules by pedagogical designers, lack of domain knowledge. Therefore, we present our patterns t...

This paper explores the technical feasibility of five functions of driving assistance systems to contribute to road traffic safety, to reach stated EU road traffic safety targets. Enabling technologies, their maturity level and development path, with a view on possible large-scale implementation, are addressed. State-of-the-art and potential of enabling technologies like positioning, radar, las...

A conflict is a common phenomenon that results from the interaction between both individuals and groups of individuals. For the development of knowledge-based systems, one needs to multiply sources of expertise, so that one may be able to generate several types of conflicts from these sources. The classical approach which avoids dealing with conflicts is not suitable. Therefore, in order to cap...

OBJECTIVE To analyze home care practices of outpatient and hospital services and their constitution as a substitute healthcare network. METHODOLOGICAL PROCEDURES A qualitative study was carried out using tracer methodology to analyze four outpatient home care services from the Municipal Health Department and one service from a philanthropic hospital in the municipality of Belo Horizonte, Sout...