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Extracting expertise from experts: Methods for knowledge acquisition
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1987-08)
Knowledge acquisition is the biggest bottleneck in the development of expert systems. Fortunately, the process of translating expert knowledge to a form suitable for expert system development can benefit from methods ...
Building efficient and flexible feature-based indices
(Elsevier, 1990)
If database management systems are to play an important role in CAD/CAM technologies, building engineering indices must be a primary task even though it is beyond conventional database practice. Information regarding design ...
Cache coherence requirements for interprocess rendezvous
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1990-02)
Multiprocessors in which a shared bus is used by the processor to communicate with common memory are an emerging class of machines where there is a need to support parallel programming languages. A language construct that ...
Review of management information systems research: A management support emphasis
(Elsevier, 1988)
This article organizes, describes, and evaluates MIS research from 1981 through 1985 in order to provide an understanding of what constitutes MIS research and to indicate potentially rich areas for future research. The ...
Datalog vs first-order logic
(Elsevier, 1994-12)
Our main result is that every datalog query expressible in first-order logic is bounded; in terms of classical model theory it is a kind of compactness theorem for finite structures. In addition, we give some counter-examples ...
A model to determine staff levels, cost, and productivity of hospital units
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1987-10)
A methodology is presented with examples of the productivity, the staffing required, the resultant productivity, and costs that can be obtained for hospital units that are subject to random work demands such as laboratory, ...
Sensory feedback and the impaired motor system
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1990-06)
A group design study was carried out using regulated feedback to enhance functional recovery in stroke patients. Patients trained on three computerized tasks aimed at improving guided limb motion in the hemiplegic arm. The ...
Analytic evaluation of contention protocols used in distributed real-time systems
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1995-07)
The probability of a station failing to deliver packets before their deadlines, called the probability of dynamic failure, P dyn , is an important measure for the communication subsystem of a distributed real-time system. ...