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Moharreri, Kayhan. "Augmenting Collective Expert Networks to Improve Service Level Compliance." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1500649086849134.
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McKeon, Denise E. "Reported preactive planning processes of expert and non-expert teacher trainers: an information processing perspective." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/40087.
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Hyslop, Alan. "Modelling of expert nurses' pressure sore risk assessment skills as an expert system for in-service training." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1988. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2932/.
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In the nursing literature to date there have been no reported applications of `cognitive simulation' nor of intelligent Computer Assisted Learning. In Chapter 1 of this thesis a critical review of existing nurse education by computer is used to establish a framework within which to explore the possibility of simulation of thinking processes of nurses on computer. One conclusion from this review which is offered concerns the importance of firstly undertaking reliable study of nursing cognition. The crucial issue is that an understanding must be gained of how expert nurses mentally represent their patients in order that a valid model might be constructed on computer. The construction of a valid computer based cognitive model proves to be an undertaking which occupies the remainder of this thesis. The approach has been to gradually raise the specificity of analysis of the knowledge base of expert and proficient nurses while seeking concurrently to evaluate validity of the findings. Reported in Chapter 2, therefore, are the several experimental stages of a knowledge acquisition project which begins the process of constructing this knowledge base. Discussed firstly is the choice of the skill domain to be studied - pressure sore risk assessment. Subsequently, the method of eliciting from nurses top-level and micro-level descriptors of patients is set out. This account of knowledge acquisition ends with scrutiny of the performance of nurse subjects who performed a comprehensive simulated patient assessment task in order that two groups might be established - one Expert and one Proficient with respect to the nursing task. In Chapter 3, an extensive analysis of the data provided by the simulated assessment experiment is undertaken. This analysis, as the most central phase of the project, proceeds by degrees. Hence, the aim is to `explain' progressively more of the measured cognitive behaviour of the Expert nurses while incorporating the most powerful explanations into a developing cognitive model. More specifically, explanations are sought of the role of `higher' cognition, of whether attribute importance is a feature of cognition, of the point at which a decision can be made, and of the process of deciding between competing patient judgements. Interesting findings included several reliable differences which were found to exist between the cognition of subjects deemed to be proficient and those taken as expert. In the final part of this thesis, Chapter 4, a more formal evaluation of the computer based cognitive model which was constructed and predictions made by it was undertaken. The first phase involved analysis in terms of process and product of decision making of the cognitive model in comparison to two alternative models; one derived from Discriminant Function Analysis and the other from Automated Rule Induction. The cognitive model was found to most closely approximate to the process of decision making of the human subjects and also to perform most accurately with a test set of unseen patients. The second phase reports some experimental support for the prediction made by the model that nurses represent their patients around action-related `care concepts' rather than in terms of diagnostic categories based on superficial features. The thesis concludes by offering some general conclusions and recommendations for further research.
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WM, Pooya Caroline, and Johanna Östlund. "Socialtjänstlagen i mötet : Socialarbetarens möjligheter för att stärka individens egna resurser." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Avdelningen för sociala studier, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-11740.
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The purpose of this study was to examine the resources and barriers that social workers have incorporating the Social Service Act states during meetings with clients, using and developing the client's skills and knowledge, develop their own resources and to promote the use of self-determination. A qualitative study was done by interviewing six social workers working within the in social service’s department for family and individual welfare. Social workers were encouraged to describe and discuss the key aspects of cases that developed positively respectively negatively. Motivation theory, evidence-based practice, empowerment, and expert-expert relationship are the theories and concepts that we used to analyze the material. The study's main conclusion is that the most important prerequisite for positive development of cases is that the social worker emphasizes and stimulates the client's own resources during meetings. Both during analysis and treatment, it is important to allow for client self-determination, life story and personal skill. When this occurs motivation and increased willingness to change are stimulated in the client. The results also paint a complex picture of resources and barriers, both within the social worker and the client, which affect the development of a case. The survey shows that motivation, self-determination, voluntariness, sustainability, time, resources and the strengthening of good relations is important factors for the incorporation of the Social Service Act states.Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka socialarbetarens möjligheter att i mötet med klienter införliva socialtjänstlagens portalparagraf. En kvalitativ undersökning gjordes genom intervjuer av sex socialarbetare inom socialtjänstens individ- och familjeomsorg. Socialarbetarna uppmuntrades att beskriva och berätta om de viktigaste aspekterna i ett ärende som utvecklades positivt respektive negativt. Motivationsteori, evidensbaserad praktik, empowerment och expert- expert förhållande är de teorier och begrepp som vi använt för att analysera materialet. Studiens främsta slutsats vad gäller positiv utveckling i ärenden är att socialarbetaren ska lyfta fram klientens resurser i mötet. Både i utredning och i behandling är det av vikt att ge utrymme för klientens självbestämmande, livsberättelse och kunskaper. Då detta sker skapas motivation och ökad förändringsbenägenhet hos klienten. Resultatet målar även upp en komplex bild av resurser och hinder hos socialarbetaren och klienten, som påverkar ett ärendes utveckling. Undersökningen visar att motivation, självbestämmande, frivillighet, långsiktighet, tid, stärkande av resurser och en god relation är viktiga faktorer för införlivandet av socialtjänstlagens portalparagraf.
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Bai, Jiping. "Durability, service life estimation and mix design of concrete using an expert system." Thesis, University of Dundee, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.288452.
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Ngo, Quang Minh. "Système expert d'aide à la reprise de service d'un réseau électrique après un incident généralisé." Grenoble INPG, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994INPG0145.
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Ce travail a pour but d'élaborer un outil qui permet de faire la simulation de différentes stratégies et d'aider à la prise de décision pendant la reprise de service du réseau électrique après un incident généralisé. L'étude est menée sur l'application du modèle blackboard qui permet d'une part d'implanter ou de modifier facilement une stratégie de reprise de service et d'autre part de traiter l'intervention de l'opérateur pendant la simulation de cas. Ceci a pu être réalisé grâce à la séparation de la connaissance en trois types, les données, les règles et la stratégie et à la possibilité offerte par le blackboard de coordonner l'activité de plusieurs "experts" (sources de connaissance), construites de façon indépendante. Le fait que l'opérateur soit considéré comme un expert parmi d'autres dans le système, permet l'intervention de celui-ci dans le raisonnement en assurant la cohérence du processus de résolution. L'interface utilisateur qui fournit une présentation d'information synthétique et ergonomique permet un bon dialogue avec l'opérateur. A titre d'exemple, trois stratégies ont été implantées pour montrer la facilité d'implantation d'une stratégie. Ceci a justifié aussi la stratégie de reprise de service retenue pour le moment à EdF
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Tinson, Julie S. "To what extent do the categorisations of novice and expert contribute to an understanding of the evaluation and communication of service provision in the maternity services." Thesis, Edinburgh Napier University, 1999. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/7311.
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Introduction Measuring consumer expectations and perceptions of service provision is supported by both practitioners and academics. The National Health Service, as a result of policy reforms and structural changes, recognises the role of the patient in health care and is gradually incorporating patient views in policy and practice. This study explores the experience of the patient and its affect on the expectations and perceptions of the service provision. Two hospitals, antenatal and postnatal groups were utilised to ascertain the views and experiences of pregnant and recently delivered women. Methodology Focus groups were held with women who had delivered, since the implementation of the Patient's Charter, to establish the expectations of the women using the service provision. Issues of priority to these women and the perception of their overall service experience were also considered. In-depth interviews were then conducted with pregnant women to identify expectations of their forthcoming delivery and subsequent in-depth interviews were conducted with the same women once they had delivered their children. This was to evaluate their perceptions and compare them with their initial expectations. Finally, key themes and recurrent ideas were tested, using hypotheses developed after the qualitative research. The questionnaire approach was to substantiate or discount the findings of the first two stages of the research. Dissemination Familiar service quality attributes were recognisable from the analysis of the comments. Although there were issues on which women agreed unanimously, many elements of the service provision were viewed differently by women with experience and women from varying categories of residential area. The results also demonstrated that the use and dependence of referent groups varied between the women and that this was imperative for communication. Statistically, the use of referent groups, substantiated through the questionnaire analysis, provided significant results to support the initial findings. Contribution Using the information from the qualitative research, a Maternity User's Matrix was developed identifying key characteristics of users' of this service provision. The significant results from the quantitative research were used to develop an existing consumer behaviour model. Using expectations, levels of satisfaction and perceptions of consumers, this research has implications for service provision, health practice, future research and service itself.
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Bauhr, Monika. "Our common climate : how consensual expert ideas shape global public opinion /." Göteborg : Dept. of Political Science, Göteborg University, 2005. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=014684043&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Cristofalo, Paula. "Syndicalisme et expertise : la structuration d’un milieu de l’expertise au service des représentants du personnel (de 1945 à nos jours)." Paris 10, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA100114.
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Depuis les années 1945, les membres des CE ont la faculté de solliciter l’aide d’experts professionnels pour les aider à accomplir leurs fonctions de représentation. Ce qui ne devait à l’origine être qu’un élément parmi d’autres dans un dispositif de renforcement de la « fonction technique » des organisations syndicales a connu un développement tel que les experts apparaissent aujourd’hui comme un acteur à part entière dans le système des relations professionnelles. Nous proposons d’éclairer ce retournement en abordant trois dimensions ayant conditionné ce développement : la recomposition du cadre politico-juridique dans lequel interviennent les experts, au double plan des domaines d’intervention définis par la loi et des principes qui fondent la légitimité de cette intervention ; les transformations du monde syndical et des représentants du personnel, qui affectent les attitudes des élus CE vis-à-vis des experts et les usages qu’ils font de ce droit ; les transformations de l’offre d’expertise elle-même, qui s’est institutionnalisée en se professionnalisant et en se constituant sous la forme d’un marchéSince 1945, French works councils have the ability to rely upon professional accountants. Accounting and consulting, which was initially meant to be part of a wider device improving the “technical function” of trade unions, has been expanding to the point that it can now be considered as an autonomous actor within the system of industrial relations. We aim at explaining such reversal by exploring three dimensions. First, the legal and political frame, including both the jurisdiction and principles that allow consultants to intervene. Second, the transformations of Trade unions and workers representatives, that throw light on their attitude towards consultants. Third, the transformations of supply by consultants themselves, whose activity is at the same time becoming more professional and more competitive
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Chihani, Bachir. "Enterprise context-awareness : empowering service users and developers." Phd thesis, Institut National des Télécommunications, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01048688.
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Context-aware applications must manage a continuous stream of context according to dedicated business logic. Research was limited on proposing frameworks and platforms that have predefined behavior toward applications. This thesis attempts to extend background works by proposing new concepts serving as foundation for a flexible approach for building context-aware applications. The thesis examines the state of the art of context-aware computing, then adopts well-established software design principles and a functional decomposition for designing a reference model for context management enabling seamless integration of context-awareness into applications. Also, the thesis studies the use of context in common applications and proposes a context-centric modeling approach which allows the creation of a graph-based representation where entities are connected to each other through links representing context. Furthermore, the context graph decouples the presentation and the semantics of context, leaving each application to manage the appropriate semantic for their context data. Case studies are conducted for the evaluation of the proposed system in terms of its support for the creation of applications enhanced with context-awareness. A simulation study is performed to analyze the performance properties of the proposed system. The result of this thesis is the introduction of a novel approach for supporting the creation of context-aware applications that supports the integration of context-awareness to existing applications. It empowers developers as well as users to participate in the creation process, thereby reducing usability issues
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Madrigal, Martínez Santiago. "Land-change dynamics and ecosystem services using expert-based assessment and GIS: methodological implications for improving decision-making." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Politècnica de València, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/172369.
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Tesis por compendio[ES] Los servicios ecosistémicos de montaña han adquirido importancia entre los científicos, los administradores y los encargados de formular políticas de todo el mundo; sin embargo, las actividades humanas están amenazando su conservación, en particular los cambios en el uso del suelo debido al aumento de la urbanización, la expansión agrícola y la deforestación. La Puna Altoandina es un ecosistema montañoso representativo que enfrenta estos serios y crecientes desafíos. La Puna Altoandina, cuyos principales socioecosistemas consisten en pastizales naturales, matorrales y zonas agrícolas, puede proporcionar múltiples servicios ecosistémicos influenciados por el tipo de cobertura terrestre y sus dinámicas. En este contexto, se han explorado las dinámicas entre los usos representativos de la superficie terrestre y su potencial para proporcionar servicios ecosistémicos en la Puna húmeda Altoandina a lo largo del tiempo. Asimismo, se ha completado un análisis espacio-temporal que describe cómo diferentes patrones de 6 dinámicas de cambio del uso del suelo impactan en la provisión de 7 servicios ecosistémicos durante un período de 13 años (de 2000 a 2013), y en el territorio de 25 provincias. Además, con el fin de mejorar la gestión de los servicios ecosistémicos, abordamos los efectos de aplicar dos análisis "clúster" (estáticos y dinámicos) para evaluar los conjuntos de servicios ecosistémicos en cuatro escalas de observación diferentes (dos ámbitos administrativos y dos tamaños de pixel geográfico: 0.25 y 9 km2). En general, este estudio proporciona un enfoque para facilitar la incorporación de los servicios ecosistémicos a múltiples escalas que permite una interpretación fácil del desarrollo de la región y que puede contribuir a mejorar las acciones para la gestión del uso del suelo y las decisiones de política ambiental.
[CA] Els serveis ecosistèmics muntanya han adquirit importància entre els científics, els administradors i els encarregats de formular polítiques de tot el món; no obstant això, les activitats humanes estan amenaçant la seua conservació, en particular els canvis en l'ús del sòl a causa de l'augment de la urbanització, l'expansió agrícola i la desforestació. La Puna Altoandina és un ecosistema muntanyenc representatiu que enfronta aquests seriosos i creixents desafiaments. La Puna Altoandina que els seus principals soci-ecosistemes consisteixen en pasturatges naturals, matolls i zones agrícoles, pot proporcionar múltiples serveis ecosistèmics influenciats per les diferents categories de cobertura terrestre y els seus dinàmiques. En aquest context, s'han explorat les dinàmiques entre els usos representatius de la superfície terrestre i el seu potencial per a proporcionar serveis ecosistèmics en la Puna humida Altoandina al llarg del temps. Així mateix, s'ha completat una anàlisi espai-temporal que descriu com diferents patrons de 6 dinàmiques de canvi de l'ús del sòl impacten en la provisió de 7 serveis ecosistèmics durant un període de 13 anys (de 2000 a 2013), i en el territori de 25 províncies. A més, amb la finalitat de millorar la gestió dels serveis ecosistèmics, abordem els efectes d'aplicar dues anàlisis "clúster" (estàtics i dinàmics) per a avaluar els conjunts de serveis ecosistèmics en quatre escales d'observació diferents (dos àmbits administratius i dues grandàries de píxel geogràfic: 0.25 y 9 km2). En general, aquest estudi proporciona un enfocament per a facilitar la incorporació dels serveis ecosistèmics a múltiples escales que permet una interpretació fàcil del desenvolupament de la regió i que pot contribuir a millorar les accions per la gestió de l'ús del sòl i les decisions de política ambiental.
[EN] Mountain ecosystem services have gained relevance among scientists, managers, and policy-makers worldwide; but, human activities are threatening its conservation, particularly land changes due to increased urbanization, agricultural expansion and deforestation. The high-Andean Puna is a representative mountain ecosystem that is facing these serious and growing challenges. The high-Andean Puna, whose main socialecosystems consist of natural grassland, shrubland and agricultural areas, can provide multiple regulating ecosystem services influenced by the land cover/use type and their dynamics. In this context, we explored the dynamics between the representative land-cover classes and its potential to provide ecosystem services in the high-Andean moist Puna over time. We completed a spatiotemporal analysis that describes how different patterns of 6 landchange dynamics impact on the supply of 7 ecosystem services over a period of 13 years (from 2000 to 2013), and across 25 provinces. Moreover, in order to improve the management of ecosystem services, we addressed the effects of applying two cluster analyses (static and dynamic) for assessing bundles of ecosystem services across four different scales of observation (two administrative boundaries and two sizes of grids: 0.25 and 9 km2). Overall, this study provides an approach to facilitate the incorporation of ES at multiple scales allowing an easy interpretation of the region development that can contribute to land management actions and policy decisions.
Madrigal Martínez, S. (2021). Land-change dynamics and ecosystem services using expert-based assessment and GIS: methodological implications for improving decision-making [Tesis doctoral]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/172369
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Dijkstra, Jacob Jan. "On the use of computerised decision aids : an investigation into the expert system as persuasive communicator /." Groningen : Rijksuniversiteit, 1998. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=008433738&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Thinyane, Mamello P. "A knowledge-oriented, context-sensitive architectural framework for service deployment in marginalized rural communities." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004843.
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The notion of a global knowledge society is somewhat of a misnomer due to the fact that large portions of the global community are not participants in this global knowledge society which is driven, shaped by and socio-technically biased towards a small fraction of the global population. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is culture-sensitive and this is a dynamic that is largely ignored in the majority of ICT for Development (ICT4D) interventions, leading to the technological determinism flaw and ultimately a failure of the undertaken projects. The deployment of ICT solutions, in particular in the context of ICT4D, must be informed by the cultural and socio-technical profile of the deployment environments and solutions themselves must be developed with a focus towards context-sensitivity and ethnocentricity. In this thesis, we investigate the viability of a software architectural framework for the development of ICT solutions that are context-sensitive and ethnocentric1, and so aligned with the cultural and social dynamics within the environment of deployment. The conceptual framework, named PIASK, defines five tiers (presentation, interaction, access, social networking, and knowledge base) which allow for: behavioural completeness of the layer components; a modular and functionally decoupled architecture; and the flexibility to situate and contextualize the developed applications along the dimensions of the User Interface (UI), interaction modalities, usage metaphors, underlying Indigenous Knowledge (IK), and access protocols. We have developed a proof-of-concept service platform, called KnowNet, based on the PIASK architecture. KnowNet is built around the knowledge base layer, which consists of domain ontologies that encapsulate the knowledge in the platform, with an intrinsic flexibility to access secondary knowledge repositories. The domain ontologies constructed (as examples) are for the provisioning of eServices to support societal activities (e.g. commerce, health, agriculture, medicine) within a rural and marginalized area of Dwesa, in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The social networking layer allows for situating the platform within the local social systems. Heterogeneity of user profiles and multiplicity of end-user devices are handled through the access and the presentation components, and the service logic is implemented by the interaction components. This services platform validates the PIASK architecture for end-to-end provisioning of multi-modal, heterogeneous, ontology-based services. The development of KnowNet was informed on one hand by the latest trends within service architectures, semantic web technologies and social applications, and on the other hand by the context consideration based on the profile (IK systems dynamics, infrastructure, usability requirements) of the Dwesa community. The realization of the service platform is based on the JADE Multi-Agent System (MAS), and this shows the applicability and adequacy of MAS’s for service deployment in a rural context, at the same time providing key advantages such as platform fault-tolerance, robustness and flexibility. While the context of conceptualization of PIASK and the implementation of KnowNet is that of rurality and of ICT4D, the applicability of the architecture extends to other similarly heterogeneous and context-sensitive domains. KnowNet has been validated for functional and technical adequacy, and we have also undertaken an initial prevalidation for social context sensitivity. We observe that the five tier PIASK architecture provides an adequate framework for developing context-sensitive and ethnocentric software: by functionally separating and making explicit the social networking and access tier components, while still maintaining the traditional separation of presentation, business logic and data components.
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Löbler, Helge. "When trust makes it worse - rating agencies as disembedded service systems in the U.S. financial crisis." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2017. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-218169.
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Rating agencies provide service by offering information about different kinds of securities and/or investment opportunities. This paper addresses questions often asked during the 2008 U.S. financial crisis: Why did no one see this coming? Why were all the explanations given afterward, not given before as precautions? Or if they were given before, why did nobody listen?
Using Giddens’ idea of disembedded systems [Giddens A (1991a) The Consequences of Modernity (Polity Press, Cambridge, UK)], the paper describes and frames the phenomenon of U.S. financial crisis and the role of rating agencies in particular as a disembedded service system. Hereby it offers an explanation of the crises in contrast to the common incentive-oriented or moralizing perspectives. The paper shows that the U.S. financial crisis emerged from a disembedded service system, a simulacrum of ratings, which after a while was no more connected to the reality of securities. Information-providing service systems are in danger to become simulacra, and with it they can disembed. The paper offers a new insightful perspective on how to analyze and understand information-providing service systems and hence offers a perspective to avoid crises based on disembedded systems.
This is the first paper to our knowledge to analyze information-providing service systems based on Giddens’ theory of abstract disembedded systems. It provides a new understanding of information-providing service systems that can help to avoid crises based on disembedded systems.
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Matthew, Olumuyiwa Oluwafunto. "Establishing a standard scientific guideline for the evaluation and adoption of multi-tenant database." Thesis, University of Wolverhampton, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2436/620518.
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A Multi-tenant database (MTD) is a way of deploying a Database as a Service (DaaS). A multi-tenant database refers to a principle where a single instance of a Database Management System (DBMS) runs on a server, serving multiple clients organisations (tenants). This technology has helped to discard the large-scale investments in hardware and software resources, in upgrading them regularly and in expensive licences of application software used on in-house hosted database systems. This is gaining momentum with significant increase in the number of organisations ready to take advantage of the technology. The benefits of MTD are potentially enormous but for any organisation to venture into its adoption, there are some salient factors which must be well understood and examined before venturing into the concept. This research examines these factors, different models of MTD, consider the requirements and challenges of implementing MTDs. Investigation of the degree of impact each of these factors has on the adoption of MTD is conducted in this research which focused mainly on public organisations. The methodology adopted in undertaking this study is a mixed method which involved both qualitative and quantitative research approaches. These strategies are used here to cover statistics (quantifiable data) and experts’ knowledge and experiences (abstract data) in order to satisfactorily achieve the aim and objectives and complete the research. Following the involvement of these strategies, a framework was developed and further refined after a second survey was carried out with a quantitative approach. This framework will help prospective tenants to make informed decisions about the adoption of the concept. The research also considers the direction of decisions about MTDs in situations where two or more factors are combined. A new MTD framework is presented that improves the decision making process of MTD adoption. Also, an Expert System (ES) is developed from the framework which was validated via a survey and analysed with the aid of SPSS software. The findings from the validation indicated that the framework is valuable and suitable for use in practice since majority of respondents accepted the research findings and recommendations for success. Likewise, the ES was validated with majority of participants accepting it and embracing the high level of its friendliness.
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Löbler, Helge. "When trust makes it worse - rating agencies as disembedded service systems in the U.S. financial crisis." Informs, 2014. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A15267.
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Rating agencies provide service by offering information about different kinds of securities and/or investment opportunities. This paper addresses questions often asked during the 2008 U.S. financial crisis: Why did no one see this coming? Why were all the explanations given afterward, not given before as precautions? Or if they were given before, why did nobody listen?
Using Giddens’ idea of disembedded systems [Giddens A (1991a) The Consequences of Modernity (Polity Press, Cambridge, UK)], the paper describes and frames the phenomenon of U.S. financial crisis and the role of rating agencies in particular as a disembedded service system. Hereby it offers an explanation of the crises in contrast to the common incentive-oriented or moralizing perspectives. The paper shows that the U.S. financial crisis emerged from a disembedded service system, a simulacrum of ratings, which after a while was no more connected to the reality of securities. Information-providing service systems are in danger to become simulacra, and with it they can disembed. The paper offers a new insightful perspective on how to analyze and understand information-providing service systems and hence offers a perspective to avoid crises based on disembedded systems.
This is the first paper to our knowledge to analyze information-providing service systems based on Giddens’ theory of abstract disembedded systems. It provides a new understanding of information-providing service systems that can help to avoid crises based on disembedded systems.
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Buld, Susanne. "Der Arbeitsplatzinhaber als Experte bei der Arbeitsplatzbewertung : dargestellt an der fliegerischen Tätigkeit der Bundeswehr /." Berlin : Dissertation.de, 2001. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=009337393&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Кожевніков, В. В. "Окремі питання призначення судових експертиз до підрозділів експертної служби МВС." Thesis, Сумський державний університет, 2020. https://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/78754.
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Особливе значення в процесі розслідування злочинів і забезпечення притягнення винних до кримінальної відповідальності має дослідження слідів злочину, що дає можливість залучити їх до кримінального провадження, надавши їм статус доказів [1]. При надходженні матеріалів щодо призначення судових експертиз чи експертних досліджень до підрозділів Експертної служби МВС, експерти чи особи, відповідальні за прийом матеріалів, керуються Інструкцією з організації проведення та оформлення експертних проваджень у підрозділах Експертної служби МВС України [2]. Це дозволяє особам, відповідальним за прийом чи видачу матеріалів, приймати правильні рішення у випадках направлення матеріалів, оформлених неналежним чином, а експерту, який проводить дослідження, надавати правильні та однозначні висновки, дотримуючись методичних рекомендацій щодо дослідження тих чи інших об’єктів.
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Singer, Benjamin. "L'intelligence artificielle au service du rugby : acquisition et modélisationd'une expertise visuelle de prise de décision tactique : construction d'un système expert hybride d'aide à l'intervention pour la formation des joueurs et des cadres techniques." Paris 10, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA100048.
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Nous focalisons notre contribution au niveau acquisition et modélisation de connaissances visuelles. Apres avoir justifié sa nécessite, nous proposons un langage d'élicitation de connaissances visuelles dont la définition formelle est donnée via ses composantes statiques et dynamiques. La deuxième partie de notre contribution est relative à la conception et à la mise en œuvre d'un outil logiciel d'acquisition de connaissances visuelles pilote par le langage précèdent. La troisième partie concerne la représentation de connaissances visuelles au niveau méthodologique et outil, par extension de la méthode et du logiciel initiaux. La quatrième partie décrit l'étude de cas complète menée pour la modélisation de l'expertise visuelle considérée dédiée a la prise de décision tactique en rugby. Le modèle conceptuel complet de l'expert est construit. Sont alors abordées la conception, l'implémentation et la validation du système expert final sur l'architecture cible. La conclusion met l'accent sur les intérêts de notre contribution au niveau théorique et pratique, ainsi que sur la généralité des résultats obtenus pour les expertises visuelles de prise de décision tactique en sports collectifsWe focus on our contribution at the visual knowledge acquisition and modelling levels. After justifying its necessity we propose a visual knowledge elicitation language whose formal definition is given via its static and dynamic component s. The second part of our contribution is related to the design and realization of a visual knowledge acquisition software tool driven by the previous language. The third part of our contribution deals with visual knowledge modelling at the methodological and tool levels by extending the initial method and software. The fourth part describes the whole case study carried out for modelling the visual expertise considered for tactical decision-making in rugby the complete conceptual model is built. Then we describe the design, implementation and validation of the final expert system on the target architecture. The conclusion points out the interests of our contribution both at the theoretical and practical levels, and the generality of the results achieved for team games study
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Santos, Juliana. "Operations management perspectives on expert services." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2013. http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/67361/.
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Expert Services like consulting, legal advisory and software design play a significant and growing role in the developed economies. In operations management (OM), the term “Professional Services” is frequently used to refer to these offerings. The literature on Expert Services proposes that these services are different from other types of services and require a different OM approach. However, recent empirical research calls into question some of the OM assumptions about Expert Services and their delivery processes. Some empirical and theoretical studies also suggest that individuals’ expertise is fundamental to making these delivery processes more efficient and effective. For these reasons, operations management researchers are calling for more robust models to explain the nature of Expert Services. This thesis therefore focuses on understanding Expert Services delivery processes and explores in detail the role individuals’ expertise plays in them. To reach its goals, this PhD by publication uses evidence from three Expert Service providers to compose three papers that contribute towards a better understanding of these service delivery processes. The three papers deal, respectively, with the characteristics of Expert Services delivery processes, with the nature and implications of customer involvement in the delivery process and with the development of new expert services. Combined, the insights from the three papers draw attention to the managerial implications of having expertise as a key productive resource. The outcomes of the papers also create means to refine and revisit OM concepts in relation to how Expert Services are developed and delivered. This research therefore contributes to the OM knowledge of Expert Services, addressing some of the recent calls for research in the area. This thesis also sets out an agenda for future research that can further increase our understanding of these offerings and create means to improve their delivery processes.
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Edwards, Sylvia L. "Fee based information services for business : an investigation of requirements." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1998. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/36840/1/36840_Edwards_1998.pdf.
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This thesis reports findings from a survey comparing the use of internal and external information services by business persons in the City of Brisbane. The Business Information: an investigation of its sources and use survey was undertaken on behalf of Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Library's Expert Information Service. The study made steps towards the understanding of
not only where information is currently sourced, but also why business people prefer the services they currently use to source their information needs. The study has corroborated previous studies into business people's use of information resources and has achieved a better understanding of information use patterns and the potential future role of libraries and library based Fee Based Information Service (FBIS) units. Comparative case
studies were undertaken to understand the Australian FBIS environment. FBIS's have developed within the Australian library environment to serve the information needs of business people. They have also developed out of a drive to provide income generation, independent of government
funding, for the library that establishes the FBIS.
Libraries and FBIS units have resources and expertise of potential value to business people; however, business people still lack an awareness of available information services and resources
in general, and specifically in libraries or FBIS units.
The main findings of this survey are that: (1) Architects and Small Business Managers are primary markets for FBIS units; (2) The main sources of information currently accessed to make business decisions are internal information services and professional associations; (3) External information service units are favoured for their ability to provide information searching and patents
& standards access; (4) The Internet is currently used more than any other electronic form of information resource and an increase is expected in daily and weekly use; (5) Information
overload and a lack of time to search for information are major concerns to business people; (6)
The majority of respondents have never used a library based FBIS; and (7) Almost 50% of business people report that they have difficulty with not having a budget to acquire information and approximately 35% have no authority to purchase information. Overall the findings suggest that FBIS units should aim to understand the commercial paradigm, providing accurate, timely and up-to-date information for their clients in the most convenient and specific manner possible. The research findings suggest a number of implications for practice for FBIS units, as well as for libraries in Australia.
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Becker, Theresa. "Evaluating Improvisation as a Technique for Training Pre-Service Teachers for Inclusive Classrooms." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2012. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5129.
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Improvisation is a construct that uses a set of minimal heuristic guidelines to create a highly flexible scaffold that fosters extemporaneous communication. Scholars from diverse domains: such as psychology, business, negotiation, and education have suggested its use as a method for preparing professionals to manage complexity and think on their feet. A review of the literature revealed that while there is substantial theoretical scholarship on using improvisation in diverse domains, little research has verified these assertions. This dissertation evaluated whether improvisation, a specific type of dramatic technique, was effective for training pre-service teachers in specific characteristics of teacher-child classroom interaction, communication and affective skills development. It measured the strength and direction of any potential changes such training might effect on pre-service teacher's self-efficacy for teaching and for implementing the communication skills common to improvisation and teaching while interacting with student in an inclusive classroom setting. A review of the literature on teacher self-efficacy and improvisation clarified and defined key terms, and illustrated relevant studies. This study utilized a mixed-method research design based on instructional design and development research. Matched pairs t-tests were used to analyze the self-efficacy and training skills survey data and pre-service teacher reflections and interview transcripts were used to triangulate the qualitative data. Results of the t-tests showed a significant difference in participants' self-efficacy for teaching measured before and after the improvisation training. A significant difference in means was also measured in participants' aptitude for improvisation strategies and for self-efficacy for their implementation pre-/post- training. Qualitative results from pre-service teacher class artifacts and interviews showed participants reported beneficial personal outcomes as well as confirmed using skills from the training while interacting with students. Many of the qualitative themes parallel individual question items on the teacher self-efficacy TSES scale as well as the improvisation self-efficacy scale CSAI. The self-reported changes in affective behavior such as increased self-confidence and ability to foster positive interaction with students are illustrative of changes in teacher agency. Self-reports of being able to better understand student perspectives demonstrate a change in participant ability to empathize with students. Participants who worked with both typically developing students as well as with students with disabilities reported utilizing improvisation strategies such as Yes, and…, mirroring emotions and body language, vocal prosody and establishing a narrative relationship to put the students at ease, establish a positive learning environment, encourage student contributions and foster teachable moments. The improvisation strategies showed specific benefit for participants working with nonverbal students or who had commutation difficulties, by providing the pre-service teachers with strategies for using body language, emotional mirroring, vocal prosody and acceptance to foster interaction and communication with the student. Results from this investigation appear to substantiate the benefit of using improvisation training as part of a pre-service teacher methods course for preparing teachers for inclusive elementary classrooms. Replication of the study is encouraged with teachers of differing populations to confirm and extend results.Ph.D.
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Education and Human Performance
Education; Instructional Technology
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Mikus, Alexander. "Riskmanagement for Service Center Organisations in Export." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-165872.
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The Master thesis deals with the Riskmanagement in Service Center Organizations and its implementation. The thesis show in detail how Service Center Organizations are working and where and how Risk management has to be implemented. The thesis analyzes the differences in organizing Risk management in the stage of implementation of the Service Center Organization and afterwards. The first part of the Master thesis is theoretical and is devoted to Risk management and the origin of Service Center Organizations. The autor stresses the differences of Service Center Organization, Centralization and Outsourcing. The second part of the thesis demonstrates the typical processes in Service Center Organizations and how Risk management is applied. In the third part the findings are presented as the differences in Risk managent during implementation and afterwards as well as additional findings are presented.
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PEREIRA, BEATRIZ HELENA KURY COSTA. "THREE ESSAYS ON EXPORT PROMOTION SERVICES AND SYSTEMS: OVERCOMING EXPORT BARRIERS." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2018. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=34884@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROCOORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO
PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTITUIÇÕES COMUNITÁRIAS DE ENSINO PARTICULARES
O comércio exterior garante benefícios significativos para as nações, tanto do ponto de vista macroeconômico quanto microeconômico. Do ponto de vista macroeconômico, as exportações possibilitam o aumento das reservas cambiais e geram oportunidades de emprego proporcionando, consequentemente, melhores condições de vida. Do ponto de vista microeconômico, as exportações estimulam o desenvolvimento de vantagens competitivas, reduzindo a capacidade ociosa, elevando os padrões tecnológicos, potencializando a lucratividade, intensificando o retorno sobre os investimentos e reforçando a grandeza financeira das empresas. O desempenho das exportações das PMEs é particularmente de extrema importância, uma vez que elas são responsáveis por uma parcela significativa das atividades econômicas e podem ampliar substancialmente o resultado das exportações no nível agregado. No entanto, barreiras à exportação e falhas de mercado tendem a afetar sua capacidade de acesso aos recursos estratégicos necessários para garantir um processo de internacionalização bem-sucedido. Analisando pela ótica da Visão Baseada em Recursos (Resource Based View), a incapacidade das PMEs de obter sucesso em expandir-se internacionalmente devido à falta de recursos internos suficientes, know-how e informações sobre mercados estrangeiros, pode ser vista como uma condição de falha de mercado, endossando a participação do governo em iniciativas de promoção às exportações. A partir desse raciocínio e com base no conhecimento existente, o objetivo desta tese é contribuir para a investigação de serviços e sistemas de promoção às exportações em três ensaios. O primeiro ensaio, intitulado Serviços de Promoção às Exportações e Barreiras às Exportações da Firma: Há interação entre as duas literaturas?, visa examinar profundamente estas literaturas, apresentando, apresentando suas contribuições, lacunas e recomendações para estudos futuros. O segundo ensaio, intitulado Iniciativas de Promoção às Exportações junto a um Cluster, aborda o desenvolvimento de longo prazo de um cluster brasileiro de moda praia, utilizando o método do estudo de caso e focando especificamente nas tentativas de desenvolvimento de suas atividades exportadoras. Agentes de promoção às exportações tentaram introduzir novas práticas e atitudes em relação à cooperação entre empresas, mas não obtiveram sucesso. A questão fundamental, portanto, é buscar entender porque as empresas falharam em cooperar, apesar de várias iniciativas e investimentos realizados para promover ações coletivas. O artigo fornece algumas explicações possíveis que sugerem implicações para outros clusters brasileiros. Por fim, a conclusão fornece algumas recomendações para formuladores de políticas públicas sobre o desenho de programas de promoção às exportações. O terceiro e último ensaio, intitulado A Coordenação de Redes de Promoção às Exportações para as Indústrias Criativas, examina por meio do uso do método do estudo de caso, as diferentes abordagens adotadas por três países bem-sucedidos no apoio à internacionalização de suas indústrias criativas, a partir da perspectiva interorganizacional, com foco na coordenação de redes. O estudo fornece evidências empíricas de como diferentes abordagens, da centralização da rede de promoção às exportações à descentralização dos esforços de promoção, e de uma coordenação mais frouxa até uma mais rigorosa, podem ser usadas para promover as exportações de empresas pertencentes às indústrias criativas. Os resultados também sugerem que cada contexto pode exigir uma abordagem diferente para a coordenação das atividades das Instituições de Apoio ao Comércio Exterior. O grau de desenvolvimento econômico de cada país, os recursos disponíveis, a maturidade da indústria, bem como, questões culturais, podem desempenhar seu papel na determinação da abordagem mais adequada para cada país e setor.
Foreign trade provides significant benefits to nations from both macroeconomic and microeconomic perspectives. From a macroeconomic point of view, exports allow the increasing of foreign exchange reserves and generate employment opportunities, consequently leading to improved living standards. From a microeconomic perspective, exports stimulate the development of competitive advantages, reducing idle production capacity, raising technological standards, powering profitability, intensifying return on investments, and enhancing firms financial stature. SMEs export performance is particularly of utmost importance since they are responsible for a significant portion of economic activities and could amplify substantially exports outcome at the aggregate level. However, export barriers and market failures tend to affect their capacity to access strategic resources necessary to guarantee a successful internationalization process. From a resource-based perspective, the inability of SMEs to successfully expand abroad due to their lack of sufficient internal resources, know-how, and information about foreign markets may be seen as a condition of market failure, therefore endorsing government s participation in export promotion initiatives. In accordance with this rationale and building on the existing knowledge, the aim of this thesis is to contribute to the investigation of export promotion services and systems in three essays. The first essay, entitled Export Promotion Services and Firm Export Barriers: Do These Literatures Interact?, – aims to thoroughly examine the two literatures, presenting their contributions, gaps, and recommendations for future studies. The second essay, entitled Export Promotion Initiatives in a Cluster, - approaches the long-term development of a Brazilian beachwear cluster, using the case method of investigation and focusing specifically on the attempts to develop exporting activities. Export promotion agents have tried to introduce new practices and attitudes toward cooperation among firms but failed to do so. The key issue, therefore, is to understand why the firms failed to cooperate, despite several initiatives and investments to promote collective actions. The paper advances some possible explanations, with implications to other Brazilian clusters. Finally, the conclusion advances some recommendations for public policymakers concerning the design of export promotion programs. The third and last essay, entitled The Coordination of Export Promotion Networks for the Creative Industries, examines through the use of the case method of investigation the different approaches adopted by three successful countries in supporting the internationalization of their creative industries, adopting an interorganizational perspective, focusing on network coordination. The study provides empirical evidence of how different approaches, from the centralization of an export promotion network to decentralization, and from loose coordination to tight, may be used to promote the exports of firms in the creative industries. The results also suggest that each context may require a different approach to the coordination of Trade Support Institutions activities. The degree of economic development of each country, the resources available, the maturity of the industry, as well as cultural issues, may play a role in determining which approach could be a better fit for each country and sector.
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Chang, Cissie. "Assessing Hong Kong's marketing of service exports /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B19909251.
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Risch, Vincent. "Les Tableaux analytiques au service des logiques de défauts." Aix-Marseille 2, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993AIX22051.
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Le cadre général de cette thèse est le traitement automatique du raisonnement dans des bases de connaissances incomplètes. Nous commençons par proposer une caractérisation calculatoire cohérente et complète de la notion d'extension en logique des défauts chez Reiter. Cette caractérisation est ensuite étendue à plusieurs variantes connues. Les tableaux analytiques interviennent ici comme un langage de description d'ensembles de formules grâce auquel il est possible de qualifier au sein d'un processus général de calcul les différences entre variantes. Une nouvelle variante de logique des défauts est proposée à partir de la logique modale des hypothèses de Siegel et Schwind. D'une part cette variante est cumulative sans pour autant requérir la consistance de l'ensemble des justifications, d'autre part elle englobe plusieurs des variantes non cumulatives précédemment envisagées. Elle représente donc une alternative tres générale à la solution proposée par Brewka en 1990.
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Ccerhuayo, Muñoz Johan Henry. "Implementación de indicadores de desempeño en la gestión logística local e internacional de la empresa LIMTEK servicios integrales S.A- período 2016 – 2017." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Ricardo Palma, 2017. http://cybertesis.urp.edu.pe/handle/urp/1450.
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El presente trabajo de investigación es un análisis que ayuda a poder medir el grado o intensidad entre dos o más variables con el fin de mejorar la gestión de la logística del abastecimiento en los aspectos de evaluación, selección y control de desempeño logístico.
En la metodología empleada, básicamente se ha empleado la investigación científica,
para identificar las causas originadas dentro de la gestión logística.
The present research work is an analysis that helps to measure the degree or
intensity between two or more variables in order to improve the logistics management of the provision in the evaluation, selection and performance control aspects
logistic.
In the methodology used, basically scientific research has been used,
to identify the causes originated within the logistics management.
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McGuire, Lindsay Kellogg. "Pediatric consultations to child protective services the role of expert opinions /." [New Haven, Conn. : s.n.], 2008. http://ymtdl.med.yale.edu/theses/available/etd-12092008-143351/.
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Teh, Joanna J. P. K. "Export education services : effects on the Malaysian demand for Australian education services /." Title page, table of contents and introduction only, 1992. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09EC/09ect261.pdf.
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Chang, Cissie, and 張思思. "Assessing Hong Kong's marketing of service exports." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1998. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31268638.
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QAEZE, CAZIN ODILE, and PAUL QAEZE. "Evaluation d'un systeme expert dans le diagnostic etiologique des comas dans les services d'urgences." Lille 2, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994LIL2M268.
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Hasan, Irfan. "Machine learning techniques for automated knowledge acquisition in intelligent knowledge-based systems." Instructions for remote access. Click here to access this electronic resource. Access available to Kutztown University faculty, staff, and students only, 1991. http://www.kutztown.edu/library/services/remote_access.asp.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, 1991.Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 3187. Abstract precedes thesis as [2] preliminary leaves. Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 102-104).
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Frye, Lisa M. "Automatic program generation." Instructions for remote access. Click here to access this electronic resource. Access available to Kutztown University faculty, staff, and students only, 1993. http://www.kutztown.edu/library/services/remote_access.asp.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, 1993.Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 3185. Abstract precedes thesis title page as [2] preliminary leaves. Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 90-94).
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Saini, Devashish. "Development and testing of feed a feedback expert system for EMS documentation /." Thesis, Birmingham, Ala. : University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2007. http://www.mhsl.uab.edu/dt/2007m/saini.pdf.
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Sorenson, Dana B. ""Expert alchemists"? the challenges of governmental funding of faith-based ex-offender reentry programs /." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 115 p, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1605134011&sid=2&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Lopez, Jaramillo Maria Gabriela. "Mathematical literacy: A case study of pre-service teachers." OpenSIUC, 2020. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1798.
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This study addresses the question of whether or not pre-service teachers are ready and prepared to use and teach the highly-specialized language of each discipline. The disciplinary languages present teaching and learning challenges due to their lack of parallels in the daily language (Shanahan & Shanahan, 2008). Additionally, the languages of the disciplines are rarely taught and are commonly acquired through an isolated representation of words without a situated meaning within the theory (Gee, 2002). The knowledge of the particular ways of reading, writing, listening to, and talking in the content areas provides opportunities for students’ apprenticeship within the disciplines required for success in higher education contexts (Dobbs, Ippolito, and Charner, 2017). Moreover, this study addresses the question of how future teachers develop disciplinary knowledge and skills. The purpose of this case study was to investigate how mathematical literacy is shaped and defined by the experiences, language, and disciplinary practices of pre-service teachers and experts in mathematics. This overall aim was unfolded by three guiding research questions: 1) What do the Experiences of Pre-Service Teachers and Experts in Mathematics Reveal about their Understanding of Mathematical Literacy? 2) RQ 2. How do pre-service teachers and experts in mathematics use language when solving mathematical problems? and 3) What literacy practices do pre-service teachers and experts in mathematics utilize when presented with modules that require mathematics problem-solving? To structure the elements of analysis for the participants’ responses, I adopted the theoretical support from the emerging disciplinary literacy framework, the novice-expert paradigm, and the tenets of M. K. Halliday’s functional linguistic theory (i.e., Systemic Functional Linguistics; [SFL]). Four faculty in the Department of Mathematics and four pre-service teachers in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at a large Midwest university agreed to participate in this case study. For the data collection, I asked the participants to participate in two sessions. In the first sessions, the participants responded to a semi-structured interview. Afterward, in a second session, the participants solved modules of mathematical problems following three protocols: a think-aloud, a silent-solving, and an oral-explanatory. The results of the participants’ responses to the semi-structured interview and the three protocols indicated that their experiences as learners and teachers of mathematics are tied to their definitions of literacy and disciplinary literacy. The SFL analysis showed that for the experts of mathematics, mathematical problem-solving is a more abstract and cognitive practice. The pre-service teachers’ registers indicated that mathematical problem-solving is experienced as more concrete and real practice. The unique literacy practices that these participants displayed showed the strong connection between language, literacy, and mathematical thought.The implications of this study are discussed in terms of the importance of language and disciplinary literacy in preparation for future teachers as they progress in their course of study within their teaching education programs.
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Pazello, Fernanda Ramos. "Desonerações tributárias das operações de exportação: a imunidade das contribuições sociais e a isenção do ISS." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2008. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/8338.
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Previous issue date: 2008-10-16This work looks into the extent of tax immunity relating to social contribution on export income, and also addresses the meaning and extent of tax exemption of Tax on Services of any Kind ( ISS ) levied on service exports. This paper is divided into five distinct chapters. The first chapter delimits the matter under study and its importance, and sets out the premises that will be pivotal to delve into this subject. In this chapter, we will thus analyze some aspects relating to the levels of tax competence outlined in the Brazilian constitutional system, nota-bly the allocation of jurisdiction among political entities; classification of taxes into distinct types; the characteristics of social contributions; the limits of appellate au-thorities; and the role of supplementary law. We shall then turn to the concept of extra-fiscal policy (extrafiscalidade) and its influence on the principles under the Constitutional Taxation System. Subsequen-tly, we will address two tax institutions relating to tax reduction, namely, tax immu-nity and exemption, delving into the interpretation of immunity and exemption rules. We will then delimit the concept of export transactions, analyzing their taxation in Brazil and defining the purpose attributed by the Constitutional System to export transactions. Finally, we will build critical and scientific views on two issues under scru-tiny, concluding that (i) immunity to export income also extends to the Social Contri-bution on Profits ( CSL ), Provisional Contribution on Financial Transactions ( CPMF ), positive exchange variations from export income and sales to the Manaus Free Trade Zone ( ZFM ); and (ii) the ISS exemption rule reaches the services whose results (namely, benefit) were earned by the foreign taker
O presente trabalho busca analisar a abrangência da imunidade tributária das contribuições sociais sobre as receitas decorrentes de exportação, bem como o senti-do e o alcance da isenção tributária do Imposto Sobre Serviço de Qualquer Natureza ( ISS ) sobre a exportação de serviços. O trabalho compõe-se de cinco capítulos distintos. Inicialmente, cuida-se de delimitar o tema e demonstrar a importância do seu estudo, bem como estabelecer as premissas necessárias para o aprofundamento da discussão. Assim, nos dedicamos à análise de alguns aspectos relacionados às competências tributárias traçadas no Sis-tema Constitucional Brasileiro, mais especificamente à repartição de competências entre os entes políticos, à classificação dos tributos em espécies, às características das contribuições sociais, aos limites do poder reformador e à função da lei complemen-tar. Em seguida, tratamos da acepção de extrafiscalidade e analisamos sua influ-ência sobre os princípios informadores do Sistema Constitucional Tributário. Após, abordamos dois institutos tributários ligados à desoneração tributária, quais sejam: a imunidade e a isenção, aprimorando o estudo sobre a interpretação das normas imu-nizantes e isentivas. Posteriormente, delimitamos o conceito de operação de exporta-ção, examinamos sua tributação no Brasil e definimos qual é a finalidade atribuída pelo Sistema Constitucional às operações de exportação. Por fim, desenvolvemos uma visão crítica e científica dos dois temas que nos propomos a estudar, para concluir que (i) a imunidade das receitas decorrentes de exportação abrange também a Contribuição Social sobre o Lucro ( CSL ), a Contribu-ição Provisória sobre Movimentação Financeira ( CPMF ), a variação cambial ativa decorrente de receita de exportação e as vendas efetuadas à Zona Franca de Manaus ( ZFM ); e (ii) a norma isentiva do ISS alcança os serviços cujo resultado (entenda-se benefício) foi auferido por tomador estrangeiro
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Ahlepil, Erik, and Joel Björck. "Evaluating Distribution Structures for Overseas Export of Frozen Food." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Logistik- och kvalitetsutveckling, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-129208.
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The meat producers of the western world needs to develop their export organizations and to streamline their physical distribution in order to take new market shares on the fast growing overseas markets. HKScan is one of those meat producing companies, the group has businesses in Finland, Sweden, Denmark and the Baltic countries. A part of their sales goes frozen on overseas export by container sea freight. Lately the logistics management of HKScan has been interested in investigating the effects of centralizing the physical distribution for the overseas export from Sweden and Denmark. This leads to the purpose of this study, which is: “For HKScan, develop and apply a model that evaluates distribution structures for overseas export of frozen food regarding total cost, delivery service, environmental impact and regulations.” The case study included comparison between the current distribution structure for HKScan and three pre-determined scenarios. The current setup consists of multiple warehouses in both countries. In the first scenario the distribution structure is centralized to include one warehouse per country. In the second scenario, the total export flow of products from both Sweden and Denmark is redirected and centralized to one warehouse in Denmark. In the third scenario, the total export flow of products from both Sweden and Denmark is instead redirected and centralized to one warehouse in Sweden. To evaluate and compare the different distribution structures a general model was first created by combining different theoretical models and adapting them to the context of overseas distribution for frozen food. The study then included the three phases of developing the model to fit the case company, applying the model on the case company and then to finally evaluating the model. The resulting model, which was the outcome of the development process, can be seen below. The model illustrates the different included elements. By then applying the model onto the case company, HKScan, it was found that a centralization to a joint warehouse in Denmark would make total cost savings of several percents. In addition, this scenario would increase the total service level. However, the environmental impact would be increased due to long cross-border road transport distances and longer land and sea transports from the warehouse. In addition, it was not possible to fully investigate whether such a distribution would be possible from a regulatory point of view. A centralization in each country would have minor regulatory issues, it would lead to the smallest environmental impact and have a slight increase in service levels as well as a reduction for the total cost of one percent. The evaluation of the model showed that it produces reasonable results with the regulatory elements being the hardest to evaluate for the different scenarios. Regarding the detail level, the veterinary element could be accounted for by the warehousing element and the sea freight element split into transport from warehouse to domestic port and sea freight from domestic port to the destination port. The box-model, containing twelve elements, can be seen as generalizable for evaluating distribution structures in similar contexts, Overseas export of frozen food. However, the calculation performed within the model do probably only apply to the specific scenarios in the study.
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Clibbens, Nicola. "Registered nurses' and services users' expert views about therapeutic nursing on acute mental health wards." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.531209.
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Piatti, Marco. "Honesty in the provision of expert services: The effect of naturalistic framings and participants' professions." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2016. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/94984/1/Marco_Piatti_Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis studies the incentives and behaviour of providers of expert services, like doctors, financial advisors and mechanics. The focus is in particular on provision of health care using a series of credence goods experiments conducted to investigate undertreatment, overtreatment and overcharging in a medical context. The findings of study one suggest that a medical framing compared to a neutral framing significantly increases pro-social behaviour for standard participants in economic experiments. Study two compares the behaviour of medical practitioners - mainly doctors - to students. It is observed that medical doctors’ undertreat and overcharge significantly less, but at the same time overtreat significantly more than students. The final study compares behaviours for other experts - accountants, engineers and lawyers - using experimental framings drawn from the respective contexts and students from the respective faculties as participants in credence goods experiments.
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Grater, Sonja. "The development of an export opportunities model for South African services / S. Grater." Thesis, North-West University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/5559.
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The services sector has played an increasingly important role in international trade in recent years. The negotiations under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) in recent years have initiated a global drive to liberalise services trade. However, this liberalisation process holds many challenges, especially for developing countries that do not have an adequate regulatory system to sufficiently support and promote these new export sectors. The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) in South Africa recognised a need to undertake scientific research to identify the development and export potential of key services sectors.
In the period from 2005 until 2009, the services sector contributed 65% on average to the GDP of South Africa. In 2010, 79% of the labour force in South Africa was employed in the services sector. However, services only contributed 19% to total exports from South Africa in the period from 2005 until 2009 (ITC, 2010a). The largest services export sectors for South Africa over the five–year period were travel (63%), transportation (11%), and business services (9%). This indicates that South Africa?s services exports are mostly concentrated in one sector, namely travel, and this clearly indicates the need for South Africa to diversify exports of services into other sectors.
Export promotion is one of the methods that governments can use in order to stimulate the export growth of a country. Given the need to increase and diversify the exports of South African services, this study aimed to investigate the literature in order to establish possible guidelines for the export promotion of services specifically.
Export promotion instruments should aim to identify potential export opportunities in order to allocate scarce government resources to the active promotion of the sectors with the highest export potential. In order to aid government with this process, Cuyvers, De Pelsmacker and Roozen (1995) developed a decision support model (DSM) that could determine potential export opportunities for products in Belgium by using a scientifically–based method. This model was adapted for South African products in 2007 and further refined in 2009 and 2010 for the DTI in South Africa. In all cases, the DSM analysis was only applied to products and the services sector was never taken into consideration owing to the data differences and the nature of services. Therefore, this study aimed to develop a similar model for the services sector in South Africa that could identify the sectors and countries with the highest potential for services export diversification. The results of such a model could also be incorporated into a services sector strategy for South Africa. Such a services strategy does not currently exist for South Africa and if the results of this model were incorporated into such a strategy, it would be the first of its kind.
The study reviewed the methodology of the DSM for products and found that the methodology of the first two filters could be applied to the available services data in a similar manner. However, owing to the nature of services and the limited availability of data, the third and fourth filters had to be adapted to consider these differences. Therefore, a new model was developed to incorporate the nature of services, and the new model was named the export opportunities model (EOM) for services. A new methodology was developed for the third and fourth filters in the EOM for services. A new cell structure was also constructed to categorise the results of the EOM according to the specific market characteristics, which could be used in export promotion strategies to develop specific promotion instruments for each type of market.
The results of the EOM for services on a geographical basis showed that the highest export opportunities for services in South Africa were in Eastern and South–Eastern Asia, followed by the European market. The results also identified specific sectors that have high export potential for South African services. The sectors with the highest export potential are travel, transportation, construction services, communications services and other business services. These results can be incorporated into a services sector export promotion strategy for the DTI in South Africa.
The study also compared the results of the DSM for products with the results of the EOM for services, in order to establish guidelines on regional export opportunities for both products and services. The study found that the highest export opportunities were in the Asian and European regions. The DTI in South Africa could use these product/country combinations and services/country combinations to develop specific export promotion instruments and strategies for each region in the world.Thesis (Ph.D. (International Trade))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2011.
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Benavides, Silva Santisteban Marcelo, Casallo Sofia Chiroque, Paredes Alvaro Diego Cuadros, Cevallos Christian Jairo Marin, and Escalante Lisbeth Melissa Soto. "OkGreenCard: Servicio digital de inmigración legal." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/626544.
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El presente trabajo de investigación tiene como objetivo atender las necesidades del mercado para los inmigrantes latinoamericanos. A partir de una serie de investigaciones para determinar las necesidades de nuestro público, y por consiguiente la implementación de un servicio rápido e innovador.
De acuerdo a los antecedentes, Estados Unidos es el país que recibe la mayor cantidad de inmigrantes a nivel mundial; actualmente existe alrededor de 10 millones de personas indocumentadas. A partir de esto, se creó el servicio “OkGreenCard” enfocado en los inmigrantes que quieran acceder al servicio de la renovación de su Green Card.
El giro principal de nuestro servicio es el llenado de los formularios digitales con el 100% de efectividad y en el menor tiempo posible. La particularidad de nuestro negocio es que somos latinos americanos que prestamos servicios a otros latinos americanos con la finalidad que sientan la seguridad y confianza de que le ofreceremos el mejor servicio.
Por un lado, logramos que el precio del servicio sea competitivo con el mercado, lo cual reemplaza en muchos casos los costos de estudios abogados que son el método tradicional. Por otro lado, asesoramos a los usuarios acerca de los beneficios que obtendrían al poseer esta documentación, manteniendo un estado de legalidad y formalidad.
Finalmente, el desarrollo e inversión inicial de este proyecto es de aproximadamente S/ 125,612 financiado totalmente con el aporte de los accionistas, el cual se estima recuperar en un máximo de 13 meses y 11 días.The objective of this research work is to meet the needs of the market for Latin American immigrants. From a series of investigations to determine the needs of our public, and therefore the implementation of a fast and innovative service. According to the background, the United States is the country that receives the largest number of immigrants worldwide; there are actually around 10 million undocumented people. From this, the "OkGreenCard" service was created, focused on immigrants who want to access the service of renewing their Green Card. The main purpose of our service is to fill out the digital forms with 100% effectiveness and in the shortest possible time. The particularity of our business is that we are Latin Americans who provide services to other Latin Americans in order to feel the security and confidence that we will offer the best service. On the one hand, we achieve that the price of the service is competitive with the market, which in many cases replaces the costs of legal studies that are the traditional method. On the other hand, we advise users about the benefits they would obtain by having this documentation, maintaining a state of legality and formality. Finally, the initial development and investment of this project is approximately S / 125,612, totally financed with the contribution of the shareholders, which is estimated to be recovered in a maximum of 13 months and 11 days.
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Pospíchal, Jiří. "Sběrná služba v námořní přepravě a export z ČR." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-72782.
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The topic of this thesis is groupage service in maritime transportation and its use for export out of Czech Republic. In the theoretical and methodological part I am defining the main terms in maritime transportation and maritime transportation in general. In the thesis I am describing the role of maritime transportation in the Czech Republic emphasized by statistics. Further I am writing about containerization and main container types because those are very important for the groupage service. In the practical part I am describing the processes of exports groupage service (LCL) within company Austromar spol. s r.o. on which I am applying business cases to to show how those processes work in reality. One of the business cases is transportation of hazardous material. In the last part of thesis I am comparing the direct and non-direct container with example of the freight charges calculation.
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Nordmann, Brian D. "The tyranny of experts analytic misperception and the rise of state-run biological weapons programs /." Fairfax, VA : George Mason University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1920/3368.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--George Mason University, 2008.Vita: p. 337. Thesis director: Christopher J. Davis. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Biodefense. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Mar. 19, 2009). Includes bibliographical references (p. 308-336). Also issued in print.
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Gupta, Chaitali. "Web services query matchmaking with automated knowledge acquisition." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2007.
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Di, Giuliantonio Andrea. "Data integration, real-time synchronization and RESTful Web Service." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2015. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/8258/.
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Analisi e sviluppo di procedure di importazione dati per un integratore di annunci immobiliari dedicato alla vendita di soggiorni turistici in case vacanza. Il documento tratta inoltre l'implementazione di un Web Service conforme all'architettura RESTful per l'accesso e l'esportazione dei dati a soggetti terzi autorizzati tramite Digest Authentication.
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DeLorey, Robin. "Nursing and the computerized age." Thesis, McGill University, 2000. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=30790.
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This thesis provides the rationale for the necessity of a redefining of the holistic back into nursing after the consequences of technological restructuring. This study revealed that the impact of modern technology-based, prescriptive changes on professional nursing practice in Canada has resulted in an increasing alienation of labour for nurses, including direct interference with patient-based nursing care, authority, necessity for broader knowledge systems, stability and fragility in job security. The implications of this examination have demonstrated that this shift has not been the result of mechanical technologies alone, but the science-based management philosophies and communicative nature of technologies as well.This project has verified that more importantly than the advancing technological shift itself the danger for professional nursing has been in what these systems are actively replacing. Namely, prescriptive technologies work to establish a managerial or 'expert' presence and authority within the practice of nursing serving to change professional understandings for nurses as well as to decrease value in the judgement and holistic care skills of registered nurses.
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Lindgren, Tanja. "Expertis, service och autonomi : Analys av professionalisering och professionalism i bibliotekarieyrket." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-32445.
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The purpose of this study is to examine and compare librarian profession with different professional theories. The intention is to describe how the librarian profession meets the different professional criteria and to what extent the librarian profession can be said to be professional in expertise, service and autonomy. Nolin’s modern theory provides an opportunity to analyze occupational groups based on professionalized basic concepts. The analysis of relevant material showed that the librarian is a service profession with high skills, but does not hold a high degree of autonomy. Librarian profession has been regarded as a semiprofession by previous profession theories, but Nolin’s broadened profession definition invites the librarian to the profession concept.
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Bello, Ruiz Alejandro Toribio, Andrés Melgar, and Daniel Pizarro. "ExpertTI : an knowledge system for intelligent service desks using free text." Master's thesis, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2017. http://tesis.pucp.edu.pe/repositorio/handle/123456789/8447.
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When many users consult service desks simultaneously, these
typically saturate. This causes the customer attention is delayed more
than usual. The service is perceived as lousy from the point of view of
the customer. Increase the amount of human agents is a costly process
for organizations. In addition, the amount of sta turnover in this type
of service is very high, which means make frequent training. All this has
motivated the design of a knowledge-based system that automatically
assists both customers and human agents at the service desk. Web technology
was used to enable clients to communicate with a software agent
via chat. Techniques of Natural Language Processing were used in order
the software agent understands the customer requests. The domain
knowledge used by the software agent to understand customer requests
has been codi ed in an ontology. A rule-based expert system was designed
to perform the diagnostic task. This paper presents a knowledge-based
system allowing client to communicate with the service desk through a
chat system using free text. A software agent automatically executes the
customer request. The agent software attempts to reach a conclusion using
expert system and ontology. If achieved success, returns the response
to the customer, otherwise the request is redirected to a human agent.
Evaluations conducted with users have shown an improvement in the
attention of service desks when the software developed is used. On the
other hand, since the most frequent requests are handled automatically,
the workload of human agents decreases considerably. The software has
also been used to train new human agents which facilitates and reduces
the cost of training.Tesis
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Marvin, Christopher E. "802.16 OFDM rapidly deployed network for near-real-time collaboration of expert services in maritime security operations." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2005. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/05Sep%5FMarvin.pdf.
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Thesis (M.S. in Information Technology Management)--Naval Postgraduate School, September 2005.Thesis Advisor(s): Alex Bordetsky. Includes bibliographical references (p.65-66). Also available online.