... this view have already been built and are described in Rich Sidner and Lesh (2001), Babaian, Grosz and Shieber (2002), Ryall, Marks and Shieber (1997), and Ortiz and Grosz (2002) Theories of collaboration ... declarative specification of preconditions and effects of system’s actions and applies artificial intelligence, automated reasoning, and planning framework and techniques to dynamically recognize ... opportunity and an exciting domain for technologies such as Machine Learning and Data Mining (see Anderson, 2002 for a review) Two approaches to automated personalization on the Web have been explored and...
... Management Framework Using CORBA, Mobile Agents and Web-Based Technologies 298 Dongming Cui, The University of Auckland, New Zealand Jairo A Gutiérrez, The University of Auckland, New Zealand ... means and ways of managing information resources This book uniquely combines both issues of support systems and multimedia technology in information management today The book has been arranged and ... mind both practitioners and researchers and is, therefore, suitable for both communities The book is also suitable for graduates and undergraduates in support systems and multimedia technology...
... diligence and risk management: sustainability and corporate governance Chapter Overview Transactional tools Environmental auditing and international standards Environmental accounting and managerial ... the handbook that relates to corporate governanceand the broader understanding of due diligence as an ongoing internal tool It can take account of the background to the target and candidate and ... Overview Opening Remarks Internal trends and drivers External trends and drivers Key governance trends References Appendix Key due diligence and corporate governancemanagement issues Chapter Overview...
... neighbor is found, and so on until the desired number are available In this case, the number of neighbors is two and the nearest ones turn out to be Shelter Island (which really is an island) way out ... the same number of records supporting it As a general rule of thumb, several dozen records for each category are a minimum to get adequate supportand hundreds or thousands of examples are not ... neural networks For example, say that half the members of a cluster are male and half are female, and that male maps to –1.0 and female to +1.0 The average member for this cluster would have a value...
... 9.5 Probabilities of Three Items and Their Combinations COMBINATION PROBABILITY A 45.0 % B 42.5% C 40.0% A and B 25.0 % A and C 20.0 % B and C 15.0% A and B and C 5.0% 309 310 Chapter Table 9.6 ... ensuring that cus tomers must walk through candy aisles on their way back from Barbie-land It might suggest product tie-ins and promotions offering candy bars and dolls together It might suggest particular ... P(CONDITION AND RESULT) CONFIDENCE If A and B then C 25% 5% 0.20 If A and C then B 20% 5% 0.25 If B and C then A 15% 5% 0.33 What is confidence really saying? Saying that the rule “if B and C then...
... threshold also implies that: A and B must appear together in at least 10,000 transactions, and, A and C must appear together in at least 10,000 transactions, and, A and D must appear together in ... 200 are extra cheese 400 are mushroom and pepperoni, 300 are mushroom and extra cheese, 200 are pepperoni and extra cheese 100 are mushroom, pepperoni, and extra cheese 550 have no extra toppings ... the support, confidence, and lift quickly gets out of hand as the number of items in the combinations grows There are almost 50 million possible combinations of two items in the grocery store and...
... trees and evergreens, and between winter, spring, summer, and fall People know enough about woodland flora to predict that, of all the hundreds of vari ables associated with the forest, season and ... dimensions X and Y and by in dimension Z are the same distance apart as two other points that differ by in dimension X and by in dimensions Y and Z It doesn’t matter what units X, Y, and Z are measured ... encountered in marketing, sales, and customer support are not about points in space They are about purchases, phone calls, airplane trips, car registrations, and a thousand other things that have no...
... opposite: survival analysis is very valuable for understanding customers Although the roots and terminol ogy come from medical research and failure analysis in manufacturing, the concepts are ... merely measured in dollars and cents Another important difference is the vol ume of data The largest medical studies have a few tens of thousands of par ticipants, and many draw conclusions ... deciding on what is a start and stop, a decision that often depends on the type of busi ness and available data The second challenge is technical: finding these start and stop dates in available...
... Rock Candy Mountains, There’s a land that’s fair and bright, Where the handouts grow on bushes And you sleep out every night Where the boxcars all are empty And the sun shines every day And the ... supply more bandwidth, and faster networks are generally easier to design than faster buses There are MPP-based computers with thousands of nodes and thousands of disks Both SMPs and MPPs have ... mistakes and to build on its successes Scalable Hardware and RDBMS Support The final synergy between data mining and data warehousing is on the sys tems level The same scalable hardware and software...
... although few customers use them One way to handle this is to identify the handsets to keep and to add a new field “handset for analysis” that keeps these handsets and places the rest into an “other” ... breakpoints for the bins ■ ■ Standardizing a value (subtracting the mean and dividing by the stan dard deviation) requires calculating the mean and standard deviation for the field and then doing the calculation ... that they are ungrammatical and filled with misspellings and abbreviations Human beings generally understand them, but it is very difficult to automate this under standing Hence, it is quite difficult...
... requirements and interfaces between the environment and the existing operational and decision -support computing environments Expect this to be an iterative process that leads to a better understanding ... data) and standardization However, data mining tools are generally weak on looking up values and doing aggregations For this reason, the customer signature is almost always created elsewhere and ... an increased understanding of its customers and mar ket, from better-focused marketing, from more-efficient utilization of sales resources, and from more-responsive customer support You also know...
... scorecards, and dashboard scorecards), metrics, cycle times, and standards These standards include national standards, regional standards, international standards, organization standards, industry standards, ... corporate management The stronger the foundation in governanceand ethics, the better the performance by corporate management Both corporate governanceand corporate ethics support corporate management ... Contractors, and Customers Handling Purchasing Agents, Buyers, or Commodity/Service Experts, and Marketing and Salespeople Handling Related Parties and Third Parties Handling Business Mergers and Acquisitions...
... scorecards, and dashboard scorecards), metrics, cycle times, and standards These standards include national standards, regional standards, international standards, organization standards, industry standards, ... corporate management The stronger the foundation in governanceand ethics, the better the performance by corporate management Both corporate governanceand corporate ethics support corporate management ... Contractors, and Customers Handling Purchasing Agents, Buyers, or Commodity/Service Experts, and Marketing and Salespeople Handling Related Parties and Third Parties Handling Business Mergers and Acquisitions...
... Recommendations for diagnosis andmanagement of hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and dyslipidaemia in primary care For hypertension and diabetic patients, change at 21 months in systolic and diastolic BP, ... acquired, analyzed, and interpreted data; drafted the manuscript; and provided statistical analysis LWK and TN acquired data and drafted the manuscript NLW acquired, analyzed, and interpreted data; ... decision support on blood pressure managementand control: a randomized controlled trial J Gen Intern Med 2008, 23(4):429-441 27 Javitt JC, Rebitzer JB, Reisman L: Information technology and medical...
... life support (TOX-ACLS) guidelines, evidence supports the use of circulatory assist devices such as intra-aortic balloon pumps (IABPs) and emergency cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) in the management ... digoxin [15], and chloroquine [64] poisonings Peripheral ECLS has been used in combination with an IABP in a case of organophosphate poisoning [50] Babatasi and colleagues [5] and Massetti and colleagues ... poisonings involving a combination of sotalol and verapamil in one case, acebutolol and meprobamate in two cases, propranolol, verapamil and betaxolol in one case, and various psychotropic drugs in one...
... simplest: • System Management: Includes user management function and distribution of power between administrator and users • Batch, Course, Term, Class Management: manager and training bureau ... the function • System Management: Includes user management function and distribution of power between managers and users 18 • Batch, Course, Term, Class Management: manager and training bureau ... this project, I would focus on “Subject managementand Search supporting for curriculum management system” This is a very important part of the “Curriculum management system” Base on system requirement...
... Hand: Organizational Economics andManagement Theory”, Academy of Management, Vol 15, No 3, pp 369-381 Donalson, L and Davis, J H (1991), “Stewardship Theory or Agency Theory: CEO Governanceand ... duality and firm performance (Finkelstein and D’Aveni, 1994; Rechner and Dalton, 1989; Donaldson and Davis, 1991) Therefore, they support the idea that the separation of the jobs/roles of CEO and ... corporate constituencies and the management as well as for improving the board governance (e.g., OECD, 2004; Monks and Minow, 2001; Baysinger and Hoskisson, 1990) However, Berg and Smith (1978) reported...
... on earnings management of factors relating to corporate governance effectiveness and quality of external audit Corporate governance Owing to the separation of ownership and control (and the resulting ... of corporate governance Int J Audit 14: 57–77 (2010) Audit Quality, Corporate Governance, and Earnings Management: A Meta-Analysis is necessary, through which management is overseen and supervised ... corporate governanceand audit quality attributes on earnings management For each attribute, we discuss its nature and hypothesized effect on earnings management (earnings quality or lack thereof), and...