Determining the physical location of the users of a multi-agent system is essential if we want it to provide them with context-awareness services. A context-aware system can answer to the requests of its users in a more effective way, being able of consider the conditioners that affect them. Here we present SMAUG, a multiagent context-aware system aimed at managing the university tasks of tutor...

The primary goal of this study is to examine the relationship between managerial information security awareness and managerial actions toward information security for the purpose of putting stress on the significant roles of managerial information security awareness in an organization’s total information security performance. Under the assumption that managerial actions toward information secur...

0747-5632/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier Ltd. A http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2012.06.001 ⇑ Corresponding author. Present address: Graduate sity of Bristol, 35 Berkeley Square, Bristol BS8 1JA, Uni 33 14276. E-mail addresses: [email protected] [email protected] (S.E. Ainsworth), C c.uk (C.K. Crook). Individuals collaborating around and through computers benefit fr...

Listeners without absolute (or "perfect") pitch have difficulty identifying or producing isolated musical pitches from memory. Instead, they process the relative pattern of pitches, which remains invariant across pitch transposition. Musically untrained non-absolute pitch possessors demonstrated absolute pitch memory for the telephone dial tone, a stimulus that is always heard at the same absol...

N. Stewart, G. D. A. Brown, and N. Chater (2005) presented a relative judgment model (RJM) of absolute identification, in which the current stimulus is judged relative to the preceding stimulus. S. Brown, A. A. J. Marley, and Y. Lacouture (2007) found that the RJM does not predict their finding of increased accuracy after large stimulus jumps, except at the expense of other effects. In fact, th...

In this paper, we propose a parametric uniform approximation method to solve NP-hard absolute value equations. For this, we uniformly approximate absolute value in such a way that the nonsmooth absolute value equation can be formulated as a smooth nonlinear equation. By solving the parametric smooth nonlinear equation using Newton method, for a decreasing sequence of parameters, we can get the ...

background: ergonomics standards play an important role in product and system design as it can improve their usability; provide comfort and safety for the users. the number of musculoskeletal diseases has increased in recent years in malaysia. however, the awareness and importance of ergonomics in malaysia is still very low among the industries. many ergonomics standards have been adopted by si...

Information Security awareness initiatives are seen as critical to any information security programme. But, how do we determine the effectiveness of these awareness initiatives? We could get our employees to write a test afterwards to determine how well they understand the policies, but this does not show how it affects the employee’s on the job behaviour. Does awareness training have a direct ...

In this paper we consider the absolute variation statistics of a composition σ = σ1 · · ·σm of n which is a measure of the sum of absolute differences between each consecutive pair of parts in a composition. This and some related statistics which we discuss, can also be interpreted within the context of bargraph polygons and bargraph walks of area n. In this context, absolute variation correspo...