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ADEPT-Advanced Decision Environment for Process Tasks: Overview & Architecture
No full textThis paper provides an introduction to project ADEPT (Advanced Decision Environment for Process Tasks). The project is researching both the technology and the methods that are needed to improve the way information is gathered, managed, distributed and presented to people in key business functions and operations. The paper presents a first-level breakdown of the central architecture concepts that have been emerging during the first six months of the ADEPT project. The use of autonomous agents to provide information services is explored and a language for their communication and representation developed. The work presented here represents only the preliminary steps towards the final architecture and is likely to undergo significant refinement throughout the project life-cycle
Implementing a Business Process Management System Using ADEPT: A Real-World Case Study
No full textThis article describes how the agent-based design of ADEPT (advanced decision environment for processed tasks) and implementation philosophy was used to prototype a business process management system for a real-world application. The application illustrated is based on the British Telecom (BT) business process of providing a quote to a customer for installing a network to deliver a specified type of telecommunication service. Particular emphasis is placed upon the techniques developed for specifying services, allowing heterogeneous information models to interoperate, allowing rich and flexible interagent negotiation to occur, and on the issues related to interfacing agent-based systems and humans. This article builds upon the companion article (Applied Artificial Intelligence Vol.14, no 2, pgs. 145-189) that provides details of the rationale and design of the ADEPT technology deployed in this application
6498: Albert Alty, South Lancashire Regiment.
No full textAlbert Alty was my uncle. He was the son of William and Selina Alty. Before the war he was a joiner. Immediately before the war he worked for C. E. Bennett & Co. Ltd., Union and Bengal Mills, Manchester. Before going to Manchester he had been an active member of various organisations connected with St Paul's Church, Southport. He married Jean Frances Waddell in 1911 and their daughter, Daisy, was born a about year later. He had two brothers who also saw active service in the First World War.Albert enlisted on 28th August 1914. He joined the 2nd Battalion of the South Lancashire Regiment with service number 11722. He went to France on 05/12/1914. On Christmas Eve 1914 he went into the trenches. He sent many postcards and letters home, which I have now. The letters usually start with "Just a few lines to let you know that I am still in the land of the living and keeping in good health and spirits' or something similar. There is mention in the letters of George and Jane. George is likely to be Albert's brother and Jane George's wife. There are mentions of Wilfred, Frank and Harold, all likely to be Albert's brothers. I have one letter from Jean Alty to Albert Alty dated Saturday Sep 30th [1916]. It Refers to Albert going out to supper with Gilbert Taylor.Albert was wounded and was in hospital in Boulogne. One of his letters was written on 10/09/1916 while he was in hospital. This was followed by a period at the Convalescent Depot at Boulogne. On 11/10/1916 he wrote, saying he was going to rejoin his regiment that day.Albert was reported as missing on 21/10/1916 and there followed a long period of uncertainty as to what had happened to him. A letter from Sergeant Jos. Harrel dated 19th February 1917 said that he had buried Albert. In a letter to Mrs Alty dated 21/02/1917 Lieut J. S. Boast says that he is not going to tell her to give up all hope of hearing from Albert, but to be candid he thought he had been killed. An official letter dated 21 July 1917 indicated that Albert had been killed in active service on 21/10/1916. He is buried at Grandcourt Road Cemetery, Grandcourt, Somme, France. He was killed only two weeks after being sent back to the front. It is thought that he had not fully recovered from his injuries. Albert was 29 when he was killed.I have a letter which is from a cousin, Jean, and addressed to Miss N. Waddell at Southport. The cousin lived at Tillicoultry, Scotland. Miss N. Waddell is likely to be Eleanor, sister of Jean, Albert Alty's wife. The letter is dated 11th March, 1916. The letter is a letter of sympathy about Albert Alty. The date on the letter is before the death of Albert Alty. However, examination of the postmark on the envelope shows the year as 1917.Jean wrote to C. E. Bennett & Co. Ltd. About money and pensions. I have the reply letters from the company.</p
[Report to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author #1]
No full textReport to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author. The report contains a list of officers who gave depositions to the United States Attorney
[Report to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author #2]
No full textReport to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author. The report contains a list of officers who gave depositions to the United States Attorney
ADEPT: Managing Business Processes Using Intelligent Agents
No full textThis paper describes work undertaken in the ADEPT (Advanced Decision Environment for Process Tasks) project towards developing an agent-based infrastructure for managing business processes. We describe how the key technology of negotiating, service providing, autonomous agents was realised and demonstrate how this was applied to the BT business process of providing a customer quote for network services. Issues of agent visualisation are also addressed
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A Survey of usability evaluation practices and requirements in the European IT industry
No full textThis item is not the definitive copy. Please use the following citation when referencing this material: Dillon, A., Sweeney, M. and Maguire, M. (1993) A survey of usability evaluation practices and requirements in the European IT industry. In. J. Alty, S. Guest and D. Diaper (eds.) HCI'93. People and Computers VII. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Abstract: The present paper reports on a survey of current practices in usability engineering and requirements for support within European I.T. organisations. Responses were obtained from 84 individuals working in nine European countries. The data were analysed in terms of four themes: respondents' background, their interpretation and appreciation of the concept of usability, current practice with regard to usability evaluation, problems and requirements for support in conducting usability evaluation. Results suggest widespread awareness but only superficial application of Human Factors methods in Industry
Murder on the mountain: author talk with Peter J. Wosh
No full textAuthor talk by Peter J. Wosh on May 5th, 2022, on his book, "Murder on the Mountain: crime, passion, and punishment in gilded age New Jersey.
Mr. Melvin J. Collier, RWWL AUC, June 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Mr. Melvin J. Collier. Mr. Collier talks about his book, "From Mississippi to Africa: A Journey of Discovery". Daniel Le, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
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