Disputes and conflicts are common in construction projects. Researchers have studied five different styles to handling conflicts: integrating, obliging, dominating, avoiding, and compromising. However, negotiating with different conflict management style may result in quite different outcomes. Some people seem to be very considerate, but do not really honor the promise. However, some individual...

extended abstract 1. introduction family environment is a place where our basic sense of “self” is formed through intimate, intense and broad interaction with parents and other family members (gecas & schwalbe, 1986). moreover, emotional relationships between them have a decisive influence on the construction of individual and social identity of each of the children and adolescents. one result ...

Feature interaction is a problem mostly considered in the context of telephony features, but present in other domains. In this paper we consider policies (independent of the system that they control) as an application domain for feature interaction techniques. We present the feature interaction problem as it occurs in the policy context and show how it can be approached. We give a taxonomy for ...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To identify factors associated with oncology nurses' use of hazardous drug (HD) safe-handling precautions in inpatient clinical research units.
. DESIGN Descriptive, cross-sectional.
. SETTING The National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.
. SAMPLE 115 RNs working on high-volume HD administration units. 
. METHODS Survey data were collected o...

In this paper we present a framework for conversational awareness and conflict resolution in spoken dialogue systems for home care assistance. Conversational awareness is supported through OWL ontologies for capturing conversational modalities, while interpretation and incremental context enrichment is facilitated through Description Logics reasoning. Conflict resolution further assists the int...

The reading and spelling deficits characteristic of developmental dyslexia (dyslexia) have been related to problems in phonological processing and in learning associations between letters and speech-sounds. Even when children with dyslexia have learned the letters and their corresponding speech sounds, letter-speech sound associations might still be less automatized compared to children with ag...

This paper reports on the on-going development of a hybrid approach for dispatching and conflict-free routing of automated guided vehicles used for material handling in manufacturing. The approach combines Constraint Programming for scheduling and Mixed Integer Programming for routing without conflict. The objective of this work is to provide a reliable method for solving instances with a large...