AnswerChase Newsletter, October, 2001: Annapolis, Maryland, USA.

Articles in this Newsletter: AnswerChase and CHADIS Latest collaboration of AnswerChase in the field of medicine and clinical applications. Objective Oriented Intelligence Methodology Israeli expert Jacob Bar joins the team of AnswerChase instructors for Intelligence Monitoring. Best is Yet to Come A word from our Chairman about the near future of Web intelligence. Computational Web Intelligence in IEEE Conference Thanks to Prof Yanqing Zhang's efforts, Computational Web Intelligence has become a special session in the upcoming IEEE Conference. AnswerChase Links AnswerChase products page. SiteViewer Version 3.0 is now available for trial. Send us an email if you wish to try it out. If you think you received this email in error, reply to this email with subject "remove" and your email address will be removed from our distribution list. AnswerChase and CHADIS AnswerChase has reached an agreement with the Center for Promotion of Child Development through Primary Care to integrate the components of the PROve software into CHADIS (Child Health and Development Interactive System) to enhance its resource identification capability from open Web sources. Raymond Sturner MD, co-director of CHADIS and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, believes that AnswerChase technology can be instrumental in helping CHADIS reach its objectives and vision. CHADIS facilitates comprehensive pediatric care by enabling the parent to systematically review and pinpoint concerns about the child?s behavior and development and to highlight perceived strengths on computerized questionnaires. This parent-generated information is transmitted to the health care provider?s worksheet within an electronic medical record of the visit. Parent concerns are translated, on the worksheet, into potential DSM-PC (the new standard expert derived manual for categorizing a range of mild to severe mental health problems in a primary care setting) categories of ?developmental variation?, ?problem? or DSM IV (the established psychiatric standard definition of disorder) mental health disorder. Clinical guides for responding to the concern are also provided including: clinical tips; age related anticipatory guidance information; potential contributing factors and eliciting ?trigger questions? (including those suggested by Bright Futures); definitions of the terms (e.g. criteria for diagnosing disorders); differential and co-morbid diagnoses; details of the items the parent selected; bulleted key concepts about the problem; and specific management suggestions from which to choose for the particular patient. In addition, the system provides the health provider with a list of potentially useful resources (e. g., an appropriate support group or quality daycare information) that match up with factors the clinician determines are related to the parental concern. A list of resources to promote strengths in the child (e g., programs and mentors for sports or music) is also provided on the worksheet. An individualized parent report (including a picture of the child and parent) is generated at the end of the visit, based on data suggested by the parent and further modified by the health provider, including recommendations and information for parents along with specific information for accessing any suggested resources. . Objective Oriented Intelligence Methodology Israeli Internet expert Jacob Bar, who is the director of non-profit R&D data center MATIMOP in Tel Aviv, joins AnswerChase's team of instructors for the Intelligence Monitoring (IM) courses. Because Bar?s methodology, called Objective Oriented Intelligence, is derived from the familiar concepts of ?management by objectives,? it helps the user to achieve specific quantitative and qualitative results from IM activities. Examples of the Objective Oriented Intelligence output include Systematic monitoring of competitors and their activities Systematic identification of business opportunities and threats Location of strategic partners Location of technologies or new products as substitutes for in house R & D Identification of new customers for existing products Generation of ideas for new products and their best design Information for deepening marketing and sales to existing customers Information for planning and conducting purchasing Information for strategic planning Market, product and consumers research Other relevant information which may influence the achievement of a given target or objective. AnswerChase plans to incorporate Jacob Bar's methodology into PROve product family as one of its powerful options for knowledge acquisition. Development is expected to start in early 2002. Best is yet to come... As we enter the last quarter of 2001, the unprecedented market turmoil following the tragic events of September 11 has presented the IT sector one of its most challenging tests ever. Many software developers have had to reorganize, rethink, redesign and "reinvent the wheels" of their business models. Despite these though times, we, at AnswerChase, subscribe to the idea that the best of the Internet is yet to come especially in the areas of automation and intelligent agents. A recent article on Informationweek.com starts with these supporting arguments: When the U.S. economy was booming, companies focused their business-intelligence efforts on their customers as they sought to understand who was buying what and why. But businesses are now confronting a recession as well as new concerns about the reliability of global supply chains, raising the importance of cost-cutting and operational efficiency goals. As a result, they're increasingly turning business-intelligence tools toward analyzing their supply-chain processes and suppliers. The continuing growth of business-critical information on the Web has not slowed down a bit. That is a sign of proactive and healthy e-business environment which is bound to inspire new technology development and rejuvenate capital investments sooner or later. Let's keep the faith, tomorrow is a sunny day. Riza C. Berkan, PhD, Chairman. Computational Web Intelligence in IEEE Conference Pioneering initiatives of Prof Yanqing Zhang, Department of Computer Science, Georgia State University, has resulted in the acceptance of "Computational Web Intelligence" (CWI) as a topic for special session in the upcoming IEEE Conference in Hawaii. Prof Yanqing Zhang explains the progress as follows: With explosive growth of the Internet, wireless networks, Web sites and Web databases, Web users suffer from too many irrelevant Web