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HICSS
2008
IEEE
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Exploring Barriers to Innovation Diffusion in Health Care Service Organizations: An Issue for Effective Integration of Service A
- This study explores the diffusion of innovations in health care service organizations. The importance of the diffusion arises from the direct effect of innovations on the quality...
Tugrul U. Daim, R. Tarcan Tarman, Nuri Basoglu
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HICSS
2008
IEEE
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Towards a Methodology for Profiling Cyber Criminals
The progress of future e-business and ecommerce will depend on the ability of our legal institutions to protect general users from cyber crimes. While there has been substantial p...
Leonard Kwan, Pradeep Ray, Greg Stephens
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ICASSP
2008
IEEE
16 years 2 months ago
Extracting question/answer pairs in multi-party meetings
Understanding multi-party meetings involves tasks such as dialog act segmentation and tagging, action item extraction, and summarization. In this paper we introduce a new task for...
Andreas Kathol, Gökhan Tür
ICPP
2008
IEEE
16 years 2 months ago
An Incentive-Compatible Mechanism for Scheduling Non-Malleable Parallel Jobs with Individual Deadlines
We design an incentive-compatible mechanism for scheduling n non-malleable parallel jobs on a parallel system comprising m identical processors. Each job is owned by a selfish us...
Thomas E. Carroll, Daniel Grosu
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Learning from human teachers with Socially Guided Exploration
— We present a learning mechanism, Socially Guided Exploration, in which a robot learns new tasks through a combination of self-exploration and social interaction. The system’s...
Cynthia Breazeal, Andrea Lockerd Thomaz