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Design An Automatic Appointment System To Improve Patient Access To Primary Health Care, Hongxiang Hu, Ping Yu, Jun Yan
Design An Automatic Appointment System To Improve Patient Access To Primary Health Care, Hongxiang Hu, Ping Yu, Jun Yan
Faculty of Informatics - Papers (Archive)
Advanced Access model has been introduced in general practice in the United States to improve patient access to primary health care services for more than ten years. It has brought in the benefits of eliminating service provider’s waiting lists, improving patients’ timely access to services and reducing no-show rate. However, to implement this model, practices need to collect relevant information, develop contingency plans and set up practice strategies to balance the provision of care and patient’s demand. These tasks are not always easy to achieve. Understanding the requirements and constraints for effective management of patient booking is essential for developing …
Using Task Analysis To Design Intuitive Online Grocery Systems, Mark Freeman, Alison Freeman
Using Task Analysis To Design Intuitive Online Grocery Systems, Mark Freeman, Alison Freeman
Faculty of Informatics - Papers (Archive)
This paper presents a normative task model for modelling user interactions with online grocery stores. It is envisaged that using task models will aid system developers in building better systems to meet users’ needs, and hereby creating better system design processes. This paper will discuss the three main areas of user experience when completing the process of adding a product to an online trolley: attempting to retrieve the product, receiving the results of the retrieval attempt, and adding the product to the trolley. The normative task model presented is expected to help in the future design of online grocery systems …
Business Rules Discovery From Process Design Repositories, Jantima Polpinij, Aditya K. Ghose, Hoa Khanh Dam
Business Rules Discovery From Process Design Repositories, Jantima Polpinij, Aditya K. Ghose, Hoa Khanh Dam
Faculty of Informatics - Papers (Archive)
Traditional process mining approaches focus on extracting process constraints or business rules from repositories of process instances. In this context, process designs or process models tend to be overlooked although they contain information that are valuable for the process of discovering business rules. This paper will propose an alternative approach to process mining in terms of using process designs as the mining resources. We propose a number of techniques for extracting business rules from repositories of business process designs or models, leveraging the well-known Apriori algorithm. Such business rules are then used as a prior knowledge for further analysing, verifying, …
A Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm Based On Orthogonal Design, Jie Yang, Abdesselam Bouzerdoum, Son Lam Phung
A Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm Based On Orthogonal Design, Jie Yang, Abdesselam Bouzerdoum, Son Lam Phung
Faculty of Informatics - Papers (Archive)
The last decade has witnessed a great interest in using evolutionary algorithms, such as genetic algorithms, evolutionary strategies and particle swarm optimization (PSO), for multivariate optimization. This paper presents a hybrid algorithm for searching a complex domain space, by combining the PSO and orthogonal design. In the standard PSO, each particle focuses only on the error propagated back from the best particle, without “communicating” with other particles. In our approach, this limitation of the standard PSO is overcome by using a novel crossover operator based on orthogonal design. Furthermore, instead of the “generating-and-updating” model in the standard PSO, the elitism …