Uma Ode à Pandora

Ensino à distância em uma Universidade Corporativa: uma análise pela ótica da representação social

OpenReq: uma Ferramenta para Auxílio à Gerência de Requisitos

The activity of requirements specification demands considerable efforts from professionals that execute it. To accomplish the activity, it’s not enough to obtain the requirements with customers. It is necessary to have a clear and complete understanding of customer’s necessities. Considering the issues associated to requirement’s registration and management, and the necessity of process’s optim...

C&L: Uma Ferramenta de Apoio à Engenharia de Requisitos

This paper presents an experimental tool to support requirements engineering activities. This tool, called C&L, is based on two techniques to model software requirements, Scenarios and the Extend Lexicon of the Language. C&L supports a cooperative process to edit Scenarios and the Lexicon. It aims to maintain the traceability between requirements and code. C&L is one of the Requirements Enginee...

Training Crisis Managers with PANDORA

This short paper introduces a novel use of timeline-based planning as the core element of a dynamic training environment for crisis managers called PANDORA. A trainer is provided with a combination of planning and execution functions that allow him/her to maintain and adapt a “lesson plan” as the basis for the interaction between the trainer and a class of trainees. The training session is base...

The Pandora Effect

Curiosity—the desire for information—underlies many human activities, from reading celebrity gossip to developing nuclear science. Curiosity is well recognized as a human blessing. Is it also a human curse? Tales about such things as Pandora’s box suggest that it is, but scientific evidence is lacking. In four controlled experiments, we demonstrated that curiosity could lead humans to expose th...