scholarly journals Few-Shot Tuning Framework for Automated Terms of Service Generation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ha Thanh Nguyen ◽  
Kiyoaki Shirai ◽  
Le Minh Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Service Provider ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Multiple Tasks ◽  
The Will ◽  
Unfair Terms

In this paper, we introduce BART2S a novel framework based on BART pretrained models to generate terms of service in high quality. The framework contains two parts: a generator finetuned with multiple tasks and a discriminator fine-tuned to distinguish the fair and unfair terms. Besides the novelty in design and the implementation contributions, the proposed framework can support drafting terms of service, a growing need in the digital age. Our proposed approach allows the system to reach a balance between automation and the will expression of the service provider. Through experiments, we demonstrate the effectiveness of the method and discuss potential future directions.

Privacy and Manipulation in the Digital Age

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 157-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tal Z. Zarsky
Keyword(s):  
Data Protection ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Policy Option ◽  
The Other ◽  
Legal Intervention ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Privacy Law ◽  
Intuitive Appeal ◽  
Visceral Response ◽  
Policy Setting

Abstract The digital age brings with it novel forms of data flow. As a result, individuals are constantly being monitored while consuming products, services and content. These abilities have given rise to a variety of concerns, which are most often framed using “privacy” and “data protection”-related paradigms. An important, oft-noted yet undertheorized concern is that these dynamics might facilitate the manipulation of subjects; a process in which firms strive to motivate and influence individuals to take specific steps and make particular decisions in a manner considered to be socially unacceptable. That it is important and imperative to battle manipulation carries with it a strong intuitive appeal. Intuition, however, does not always indicate the existence of a sound justification or policy option. For that, a deeper analytic and academic discussion is called for. This Article begins by emphasizing the importance of addressing the manipulation-based argument, which derives from several crucial problems and flaws in the legal and policy setting currently striving to meet the challenges of the digital age. Next, the Article examines whether the manipulation-based concerns are sustainable, or are merely a visceral response to changing technologies which cannot be provided with substantial analytical backing. Here the Article details the reasons for striving to block manipulative conduct and, on the other hand, reasons why legal intervention should be, in the best case, limited. The Article concludes with some general implications of this discussion for the broader themes and future directions of privacy law, while trying to ascertain whether the rise of the manipulation-based discourse will lead to information privacy’s expansion or perhaps its demise.

Quality-Oriented IT Service Management

2011 ◽  
pp. 108-123
Author(s):  
Patrick Wild
Keyword(s):  
Service Quality ◽  
Service Provider ◽  
Service Management ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
It Services ◽  
Quality Model ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Quality Requirements ◽  
Reference Models ◽  
It Service

<div>Due to the increasing importance of the tertiary sector, information technology (IT) organizations need to face up to new challenges, since their daily business has changed from development and operation of information technology to the customer oriented provision and management of IT services. In order to survive in the market, service providers need to offer and manage competitive and distinctive IT services. The “Profit Impact of Market Strategies” (PIMS) program has emphasized the need for service quality as being a crucial, strategic competitive factor. However, IT service providers do not have guidance of what quality requirements are supposed to be fulfilled to provide high-quality IT services. Different reference models and frameworks such as ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library), COBIT (Control Objectives for Information and related Technology) and ISO 20000 are widely used by many IT organizations for improving service management processes and performance. However, these reference models do not address the improvement of service quality in a consistent manner and it is not clear whether these models have the capability to close quality gaps which may arise within a service provider environment.</div><div><br></div><div>Therefore, this chapter proposes an IT service quality model for identifying potential quality&nbsp;gaps and quality dimensions in an IT service provider environment. Furthermore, it proposes a set of different quality requirements combined in a “Quality Requirements Model for IT Services” that are needed in order to close the respective quality gaps and fulfill the individual quality dimensions. The model is developed by mapping&nbsp;the reference models ITIL v3, COBIT and ISO 20000 to the previously developed quality model. The results of the mappings emphasize that all three models are partially capable to close the individual gaps of the quality model as well as to guarantee the fulfillment of respective quality dimensions. The fulfillment of these developed quality requirements can be utilized as a guideline for providing and managing high-quality IT services in the long term.</div><div><br></div><div>Finally, the maturity level is analyzed and pointed out that most of the quality requirements are assigned to maturity stage 2 or 3. This implies that an IT service provider does not necessarily have to reach a maturity stage 4 or 5 being able offering high service quality.</div><div><br></div><div>In summary, the chapter provides guidance and quality-oriented IT Service Management to answer the following questions:</div><div><br></div><div><ul><li>What kind of quality gaps exist in a service provider environment?<br></li><li>Do reference models such as ITIL, COBIT and ISO 20000 have the capability to close quality gaps which may arise within a service provider environment?<br></li><li>What processes, activities and functions from which reference model are needed in order to close the respective gaps?<br></li><li>What quality requirements need to be implemented in order to provide high-quality IT services?<br></li><li>What maturity level do service providers need to reach in order to fulfill quality requirements?<br></li></ul></div>

scholarly journals FUTURE DIRECTIONS: DISSEMINATION OF STANDARDIZED GERIATRIC SURGERY CARE NATIONALLY

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S401-S401
Author(s):  
Mark Katlic
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Quality Of Care ◽  
Surgical Care ◽  
First Year ◽  
Geriatric Surgery ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Medical Centers ◽  
National Initiative

Abstract The American College of Surgeon’s Coalition for Quality in Geriatric Surgery will formally launch a national initiative aimed to improve the quality of surgical care for all older adults in July 2019. The first-year goal will be to recruit and successfully verify 100+ medical centers. This presentation will provide an overview of dissemination efforts for the standards set for providing high quality surgical care for older adults as well as processes to measure the quality of care provided to older adults at these medical centers. It our vision that this national initiative will lead the effort to the improvement of surgical care of all older adults.

Comprehensive Assessment of Individuals With Significant Levels of Intellectual Disability: Challenges, Strategies, and Future Directions

2020 ◽  
Vol 125 (6) ◽  
pp. 434-448
Author(s):  
Charlotte DiStefano ◽  
Anjali Sadhwani ◽  
Anne C. Wheeler
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Disability ◽  
Quality Assessment ◽  
Comprehensive Assessment ◽  
Chronological Age ◽  
Motor Impairments ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Behavioral Assessments ◽  
Multiple Groups ◽  
True Ability

Abstract The variety and extent of impairments in individuals with severe-profound levels of intellectual disability (ID) impact their ability to complete valid behavioral assessments. Although standardized assessment is crucial for objectively evaluating patients, many individuals with severe-profound levels of ID perform at the floor of most assessments designed for their chronological age. Additionally, the presence of language and motor impairments may influence the individual's ability to perform a task, even when that task is meant to measure an unrelated construct leading to an underestimation of their true ability. This article provides an overview of the assessment protocols used by multiple groups working with individuals with severe-profound levels of ID, discusses considerations for obtaining high-quality assessment results, and suggests guidelines for standardizing these protocols across the field.

scholarly journals Introduction

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. v-vii
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Comic Strip ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili ◽  
Comic Art ◽  
To Receive

Future directions are often shaped by quirks of necessity or chance: the groundbreaking iconoclast that is Moebius’s Garage hermétique, with its rejection of conventional narrative or character coherence, came as a result of the author having forgotten previous scripts from one week to the next; Rodolphe Töpffer, so often credited for having invented the modern comic strip, initially saw himself as producing no more than scribblings for the entertainment of his pupils; one of the earliest of text/image forms, the emblem, may well be the result of Augsburg printer, Heinrich Steiner, adding images in 1531 to Andrea Alciato’s epigrams, a far cry from the composed intertwining of Francesco Colonna’s Hypnerotomachia Poliphili of 1499. Mirroring such processes in our own way, European Comic Art is embarking on a new direction, as we turn to issues that can reflect the diversity of comic art rather than being necessarily united by a single theme. It is a logical direction, but also one shaped by chance and necessity, that of the diversity of high-quality submissions that we have been delighted to receive.

scholarly journals TUBA World Conference on Energy Science and Technology (TUBA WCEST-2021) Book of Abstracts

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Science And Technology ◽  
Panel Discussion ◽  
Discussion Session ◽  
High Quality ◽  
High Quality Research ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
New Findings ◽  
Energy Science ◽  
The World ◽  
Energy Environment

The program starts on Sunday (August 8th) with two panel discussion sessions, one on “Energy, Environment and Economy” and the other one on “Energy and Education” where current challenges, potential solutions, opportunities and future directions are discussed by the leading experts. The program opens its technical sessions on Monday with the formal opening talks where the TUBA President, Minister of Industry and Technology, and Minister of Energy and Natural Resources deliver their speeches. The program continues with 29 plenary/ keynote speakers, 27 invited speakers and over 121 general speakers on four days which make an exceptionally designed conference in the area of energy science and technology. It then ends on Thursday (August 12th) with a panel discussion session and closing remarks. Furthermore, there are general sessions where many research talks are delivered by researchers, scientists, engineers, and technologists to disseminate high-quality research results and present new findings. Local and global online participations are expected from academia, government agencies, and industry to bring all players together, and the conference is then expected to lead to effective and fruitful discussions and collaborations among these attendants from different disciplines, institutes, and sectors from all over the world. Moreover, it is planned to have some special issues in various reputable international journals to publish high-quality papers out of the conference.

scholarly journals A reading on feminism on feminism and pornography through Jury Lotman's culture and explosion: Reflections

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 121-137
Author(s):  
Mega Afaf
Keyword(s):  
Digital Age ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
Feminist Movement ◽  
The Political ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Sign Systems ◽  
Constant Change ◽  
Feminist Pornography ◽  
Feminist Movements

We endeavor through this research paper to read the feminist movements, in particular countries in order to understand its dynamics and at the same time to foresee its future directions. To achieve this, as an adequate tool, Juri Lotman’s Culture and Explosion (2009) provides us a model for reading the different dynamics within feminism, as a cultural text, as well as its interconnection to other sign systems within the same semiotic sphere. Thus we can understand the interconnection of feminism with politics and society, and with its plurality of discourses makes it in constant change and exposed to explosions which would change its course in the future. These explosions are displayed through the political acts which were passed in favour of the women as a result of the feminist dynamics. Besides, the feminist movement has the capacity to integrate into other movements and also can be transformed into other movements, and thus, new realities and discourses are created. Within this arena, among these realities is the anti-feminist pornography as opposed to pro-sex feminists. From our stand point, pornography, and especially that in the digital age, is the dark side of the feminist movement. Semiotically, in Lotman’s (2009) model, pornography is abnormal, sick or non-existent because it is different from the norm. In the light of this, we are able to expose different views about the harms of pornography both on women and even men.

scholarly journals Service Innovation in the Digital Age: Key Contributions and Future Directions

MIS Quarterly ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Barrett ◽  
◽  
Elizabeth Davidson ◽  
Jaideep Prabhu ◽  
Stephen L. Vargo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Service Innovation ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Future Directions

Biliary Dyskinesia: Current Perspectives and Future Directions

2020 ◽  
pp. 000313482097161
Author(s):  
Bryan K. Richmond ◽  
Andrew Walker
Keyword(s):  
Biliary Dyskinesia ◽  
Special Populations ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Biliary Pain ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Gallbladder Ejection Fraction ◽  
Diagnostic Strategies ◽  
High Quality Evidence ◽  
Quality Evidence

Biliary dyskinesia (BD) is a disorder characterized by functional biliary pain, the absence of gallstones on ultrasound, and the finding of a reduced gallbladder ejection fraction on a cholecystokinin-cholescintigraphic scan. Cholecystectomy remains a commonly applied treatment for BD, despite a lack of high-quality evidence supporting the practice. The following article provides an overview of the current diagnostic strategies, treatment outcomes with both surgical and nonsurgical treatment, emerging considerations related to special populations, and suggestions for addressing the identified knowledge gaps, moving forward in an effort to develop stronger, more evidence-based practice guidelines for treating this poorly understood and poorly studied condition.

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