Dynamic assessment and adaptive optimization of the psychotherapeutic process.
Presents a general feedback model for optimal control of psychotherapeutic processes. The model can be applied online by means of a recursive estimation scheme. Continuously updated estimates are obtained of the between-sessions variation in the degree of control that is exercised by therapeutic manipulations on client behavior. A case study of a 26-yr-old male client shows that the pattern of control by therapeutic manipulations may vary substantially across sessions.
In the overall ownership cost of enterprise system, the maintenance cost consists of a major percentage. During the lifetime of an enterprise system, process customization is the most frequent maintenance efforts. However, current processing method has limited scalability and efficiency. In this case study, we explained how a scalable and efficient customization processing method was implemented. This method used the carbon emission trading mechanism to facilitate the cost benefit analysis of customization request. It also used distributed processing principle to improve the overall processing efficiency. Feedback from a pilot implementation in a large manufacturer included.