Seeking “conversations for accountability”

Convergence of sciences for social accountability in education: An experience

The inter-disciplinary approach in education includes the integration of educational capacities and competencies of different disciplines for a specific purpose or creating a new product with appropriate methodological techniques to improve knowledge and acquire competencies. In fact, the starting point of convergence of sciences is turning to an interdisciplinary approach. Convergence of scien...

Maxims for Studying Conversations

This paper is divided into three parts. The first outlines problems which the student of conversations faces; of these, some are specific t o conversational material, others general to many kinds of scientific endeavour. The second part attempts to provide a philosophical framework within which these methodological problems can be considered. The third analyses a few existing studies of convers...

Conversations for Ambient Intelligence

The development of programs for mobile devices inhabiting Ambient Intelligent network constellations is notoriously difficult. These difficulties stem from the fact that the limitations imposed by the hardware need to be dealt with in an ad hoc fashion. In this paper we advocate the use of conversations as a general programming model to develop applications for Ambient Intelligence. We illustra...

Accounting for Accountability

Accountability for Perfection

3 From the Editors trail documenting what the system is supposed to do (and not supposed to do), why the design should work, and what assumptions are being made. So, to hold software producers accountable, we need a mature discipline of forensics for computing systems and components. But getting there will require some radical changes in software development practices, since in addition to deli...