End user development environment for decision support systems

Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2009.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (p. 91-92).This thesis describes an end user programming environment that allows non-programmers to create decision support protocols for use on electronic devices. User centered design techniques were followed to identify the difficulties encountered by users when attempting to create complex protocols, specifically addressing the problems of the scale, complexity, and specificity required for a protocol to be effectively used. The result is a highly usable desktop client graphical user interface which can create protocols that can be exported in portable formats. A summative user study was conducted on the finished software in order to evaluate its success in enabling non-programmers to author protocols.by Clayton Tyler Sims.M.Eng

Probabilities generated by Laplace and SGT smoothing for1, 4, and 6 years of observations

<p><b>Copyright information:</b></p><p>Taken from "Optimizations for the EcoPod field identification tool"</p><p>http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/9/150</p><p>BMC Bioinformatics 2008;9():150-150.</p><p>Published online 17 Mar 2008</p><p>PMCID:PMC2322985.</p><p></p

Performance of algorithm when provided with observations from different years and from different time spans

Each line shows results for a different abundance quartile.<p><b>Copyright information:</b></p><p>Taken from "Optimizations for the EcoPod field identification tool"</p><p>http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/9/150</p><p>BMC Bioinformatics 2008;9():150-150.</p><p>Published online 17 Mar 2008</p><p>PMCID:PMC2322985.</p><p></p