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15 The Fundamental Uncertainty of Business: Real Options
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the manner in which uncertainty is currently evaluated in business, with an emphasis on economic measures. In...
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10 An Introduction to the Mathematics and Meaning of Chaos
It is a pleasure for me to be here, both to talk and to listen. I thank Curt Lindberg and the other organizers for this opportunity. It has been a...
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13 Medical Errors and Microsystems: The Best Things Cannot Be Told
The best things cannot be told Because they transcend all thought. The...
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14 Organization and Leadership in Hospitals
Good Morning. I was surprised yesterday morning after listening to Karl Weick’s wonderful presentation to find myself thinking that I should be...
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Multimedia Communication System for the Blind
A Multimedia communication system for blind users is developed. The system is named MIMIZU and its terminal is composed of a refreshable tactile...
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Gait Training System for Computer-aided Rehabilitation
This Gait Training system is designed to simulate the effects of gait training in a swimming pool. The weight of the subject is supported by a...
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Electronic Locomotion Aids for the Blind: Towards More Assistive Systems
This chapter first presents a review of existing locomotion assistance devices for the blind. These devices are merely proximeters, that measure the...
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11 The Social Construction of Uncertainty in Healthcare Delivery
We explore the following question: How would healthcare delivery be different if uncertainty were widely recognized, accurately diagnosed, and...
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18 Uncertainty and Surprise: Ideas from the Open Discussion
Approximately one hundred participants met for three days at a conference entitled “Uncertainty and Surprise: Questions on Working with the...
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Audio Fingerprinting: Concepts And Applications
An audio fingerprint is a unique and compact digest derived from perceptually relevant aspects of a recording. Fingerprinting technologies allow the...
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An Efficient Information Retrieval Method for Brownfield Assessment with Sparse Data*
Environmental site investigations are carried out prior to the reclamation of industrially contaminated sites. In this study, an information...
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Efficient ReasoningWith FuzzyWords
Dealing with coarse granular information is very attractive for several reasons: 1. The number of details in an application might be so large that...
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Soft Computing Models for Network Intrusion Detection Systems
Security of computers and the networks that connect them is increasingly becoming of great significance. Computer security is defined as the...
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Serendipity in Text and Audio Information Spaces: Organizing and Exploring High-Dimensional Data with the Growing Hierarchical Self-Organizing Map
While tools exist that allow us to search through vast amounts of text within seconds, most systems fail to assist the user in getting an overview of...
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Identifying Interesting Patterns in Multidatabases
In this chapter we develop a new technique for mining multidatabases. The new mining algorithm, by comparing to traditional multidatabase mining...
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On the Classification of Maze Problems
A maze is a grid-like two-dimensional area of any size, usually rectangular. A maze consists of cells. A cell is an elementary maze item, a formally...
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Learning Classifier System with Convergence and Generalization
Learning Classifier Systems (LCSs) are rule-based systems whose rules are named classifiers. The original LCS was introduced by Holland [1, 2], and...
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Foundations of Learning Classifier Systems: An Introduction
[Learning] Classifier systems are a kind of rule-based system with general mechanisms for processing rules in parallel, for adaptive...
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Learning Classifier Systems: A Reinforcement Learning Perspective
Reinforcement learning is defined as the problem of an agent that learns to perform a certain task through trial and error interactions with an...
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Aspects of Statistical Inference
With the background in previous chapters, problems of statistical inference with fuzzy data should be somewhat straightforward in principle! By that...