The use of GNPs in collaboration with physicians reduced ED and acute care utilization costs as well as overall costs for a cohort of HMO enrollees in long-term care. This encouraged the HMO to support the concept that all long-term care HMO residents should be covered by GNP/MD teams.

ince its adoption in 1997, the Unified Modeling Language (UML) has proved very popular with software engineers and has become the de facto standard as a visual modeling language for software engineers. However, this software focus of UML has discouraged many systems engineers from adopting it in earnest. Those who did adopt UML developed strategies to cope with its shortcomings. A common approach was to model additional systems engineering concepts in other modeling tools. This made it difficult to integrate the different viewpoints and achieve traceability. Fortunately, with the release of UML 2.0 and the ensuing extensions to it in SysML -the soon-to-be adopted Systems Modeling Languagethe systems engineering community has a real alternative to systems modeling that provides a more integrated approach to systems and software engineering. Since its inception in 1997, ARTiSAN has endeavored to bridge the gap between systems and software engineering modeling by adding systems engineering extensions to the UML and, as a key member of the SysML initiative, is well poised to support these emerging standards for systems and software modeling. This presentation will provide a brief overview of the major extensions proposed by SysML, and will summarize how ARTiSAN's latest release of its flagship product Studio (version 6.0) takes the lead in supporting these concepts.

“Automated learning analytics is quickly becoming a divisive issue in the educational community, needing efficient methods to monitor student development and provide feedback to teachers. Because of recent advancements in optical sensors and computer vision algorithms, autonomous monitoring of students' behaviors and emotional states is now possible at all academic levels, from university to pre-school. The purpose of this study was to create an automated system that would allow teachers to document and summarize student behaviors in the classroom in order to gather data for decision-making. A report is then sent to the facilities after the system has recorded the full session and determined whether the students are paying attention in the classroom.”

Expert system (ES) and operations research (OR) nave many fundamental characteristics that can be used to completnent and supplement each other. This paper surveys the synthesis of ES and OR and discusses and classifies various expert systems that synthesize the two for managerial problem solving.