10071 Abstracts Collection -- Scheduling

From 14.02. to 19.02.2010, the Dagstuhl Seminar 10071 ``Scheduling \u27\u27 was held in Schloss Dagstuhl-Leibniz Center for Informatics. During the seminar, several participants presented their current research, and ongoing work and open problems were discussed. Abstracts of the presentations given during the seminar as well as abstracts of seminar results and ideas are put together in this paper. The first section describes the seminar topics and goals in general. Links to extended abstracts or full papers are provided, if available

Flexible Decision Control in an Autonomous Trading Agent

An autonomous trading agent is a complex piece of software that must operate in a competitive economic environment and support a research agenda. We describe the structure of decision processes in the MinneTAC trading agent, focusing on the use of evaluators – configurable, composable modules for data analysis and prediction that are chained together at runtime to support agent decision-making. Through a set of examples, we show how this structure supports sales and procurement decisions, and how those decision processes can be modified in useful ways by changing evaluator configurations. To put this work in context, we also report on results of an informal survey of agent design approaches among the competitors in the Trading Agent Competition for Supply Chain Management (TAC SCM).autonomous trading agent;decision processes

Index to NASA Tech Briefs, 1975

This index contains abstracts and four indexes--subject, personal author, originating Center, and Tech Brief number--for 1975 Tech Briefs

New economic challenges for managing disease prevention and monitoring

Managing disease prevention and monitoring its progression benefits professionals facing the challenge of acquiring new knowledge and information for fighting the many diseases that negatively affect the life of people in areas such as public health systems, families, economic and business systems. From economic and operational points of view, Cancer Registries as organisations managing information by collecting, storing, reporting and interpreting data to improve cancer monitoring which is needed to plan health policies evaluation and design. Sustaining the role of the Cancer Registry as information system for fighting against cancer relies on paying attention on regulatory and ethical aspects with regard to the protection of confidential data, understanding and meeting the organisational challenges, learning from theory and practice emerging from the comparison of international experiences, bringing together voluntary, private initiatives of associations and public programs for sustaining the relevance of gathering and collecting data, information for knowledge about managing prevention and monitoring of the disease as core competence for driving public health systems towards sustainable development. Regulatory and organizational infrastructures help improve both information and knowledge management and design and implement effective measures and initiatives leading to efficacy in preventing and monitoring cancer disease as support to medical scientific research for cancer cure

Aeronautical Engineering: A special bibliography with indexes, supplement 54

This bibliography lists 316 reports, articles, and other documents introduced into the NASA scientific and technical information system in January 1975

Shift Change: Minimizing the COVID-19 Nursing Shortage and Decreasing Nursing Burnout

Burnout and the nursing shortage of the healthcare system is not a new issue for nurses, but the COVID-19 pandemic caused this problem to only get worse (Young, 2021). Most healthcare facilities are severely understaffed. The nursing shortage and symptoms of burnout among nurses working in the Intensive Care Units (ICU) and other high-demand COVID-19 nursing units have been magnified by the COVID-19 pandemic. Inferior working conditions such as increased work times, increased workload, and decreased training in the care of COVID-19 patients magnified nursing burnout and the ongoing nursing shortage (Galanis et al., 2021). Discovering ways to reduce the stress and burnout of the nurses working the frontlines of the pandemic is critical to promoting positive mental health of nurses. Some studies have shown there is a correlation between nursing satisfaction and the shift hours worked. Adverse effects such as stress and burnout of nurses, decreased patient outcomes, and lower patient satisfaction reports are associated with nurses working longer hours (Hoedl et al., 2021). The 2023 National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) reported that approximately 100,000 Registered Nurses (RNs) left the workforce because of burnout, stress, or retirement during the COVID-19 pandemic. A change is needed to address the ongoing nursing shortage. A prudent, manageable, and cost-efficient way to help reduce nursing burnout is by decreasing the nursing shifts from twelve-hour to eight-hour shifts on high-stress and high- demand nursing units. The PICOT question that will be used for the evidence-based change is the following: In ICU nurses taking care of COVID-19 patients (P), how do eight-hour shifts (I) compared to twelve-hour shifts (C) affect nursing burnout (O) within eight weeks (T)

Information resources management, 1984-1989: A bibliography with indexes

This bibliography contains 768 annotated references to reports and journal articles entered into the NASA scientific and technical information database 1984 to 1989

Flexible Decision Control in an Autonomous Trading Agent

An autonomous trading agent is a complex piece of software that must operate in a competitive economic environment and support a research agenda. We describe the structure of decision processes in the MinneTAC trading agent, focusing on the use of evaluators – configurable, composable modules for data analysis and prediction that are chained together at runtime to support agent decision-making. Through a set of examples, we show how this structure supports sales and procurement decisions, and how those decision processes can be modified in useful ways by changing evaluator configurations. To put this work in context, we also report on results of an informal survey of agent design approaches among the competitors in the Trading Agent Competition for Supply Chain Management (TAC SCM)

Decreasing Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections in the Critical Care Unit

Central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI) are a rising problem in the critical care setting in the United States. According to Flogren et al. (2007), an estimated 248,000 bloodstream infections occur in hospitals across the United States each year, and a significant amount of these infections are associated with the use of a central venous catheter (p.160). The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) defines a CLABSI as recovery of a pathogen from blood culture (a single blood culture for organisms not commonly present on the skin and two or more blood cultures for organisms commonly present on the skin) in a patient who had a central line at the time of infection or within the 48 hours before the development of infection ( Vital Signs: Central Line-Associated Blood Stream Infections—United States, 2001, 2008, and 2009, 2011, p. 447). After forty-eight hours, the development of a CLABSI most often points to infection attributed to central line placement or maintenance. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services noted CLABSIs as a significant concern and, in 2009, set a national goal for a 50% reduction in CLABSIs by 2013 (Wise et al., 2013). Since then, however, hospital systems across the United States have been challenged with meeting this goal. This project aims to improve the efficacy of the CLABSI bundle currently used in the critical care setting by implementing nursing interventions supported by evidence-based practice that will help prevent the incidence of CLABSI in the acute care patient population

Space station systems: A bibliography with indexes (supplement 9)

This bibliography lists 1,313 reports, articles, and other documents introduced into the NASA scientific and technical information system between January 1, 1989 and June 30, 1989. Its purpose is to provide helpful information to researchers, designers and managers engaged in Space Station technology development and mission design. Coverage includes documents that define major systems and subsystems related to structures and dynamic control, electronics and power supplies, propulsion, and payload integration. In addition, orbital construction methods, servicing and support requirements, procedures and operations, and missions for the current and future Space Station are included