This paper presents a multidisciplinary approach to engineering socio-technical design. The paper addresses technological design for social interactions that are non-instrumental, and thereby sometimes contradictory or surprising and difficult to model. Through cooperative analysis of cultural probe data and development of agent-oriented software engineering (AOSE) models, ethnographers and sof...

With the advent of the iPhone AppStore and Google Play, the ’walled garden’ approach of telecommunication companies to supply content to their customers using standard GSM/UMTS/LTE authentication has failed: Neither Google nor Apple, nor any other content provider on the mobile internet, uses the SIM card for authentication. This is mainly due to the fact that mobile telecommunication and inter...

The resource reallocation problem requires multi-agent choices under multiple-criteria, most of which are based on qualitative attributes. The conditional specification of a reallocation request (e.g., requiring a swap for one workstation with another) results in chains of reallocation transactions, which increase in complexity with the number of resources and agents. Also, the initial intentio...

The resource reallocation problem requires multi-agent choices under multiple-criteria, most of which are based on qualitative attributes. The conditional specification of a reallocation request (e.g., requiring a swap for one workstation with another) results in chains of reallocation transactions, which increase in complexity with the number of resources and agents. Also, the initial intentio...

In spite of extraordinary achievements in specific tasks, nowadays intelligent agents are still striving for acquiring a truly ability to deal with many challenging human cognitive processes, especially when a mutable environment is involved. In the last few years, the progressive awareness on that critical issue has led to develop interesting bridging mechanisms between symbolic and sub-symbol...

This project proposes and implements a system for seamless integration of HP Web Services E-services and IBM Aglet mobile agent applications onto a common platform. The developed software enables all applications written in Aglets and HP Web Services to create joint services across the two platforms. It establishes an environment for collaboration, intercommunication, translation, and bridging....

The main goal of this study is to identify bridging reading strategy -a strategy that a reader uses to make a connection from the current sentence to previous sentences to help understanding the meaning of the text. For a specific target sentence, there are two types of bridging: local and distal. Benchmarks were created to help represent each type of bridging. The two immediate prior sentences...

This study investigates the determinants of bridging ties within networks of interconnected firms. Bridging ties are defined as nonredundant connections between firms located in different network communities. We highlight how firms can enter into these relationships because of the incentives and opportunities for action that are embedded in the existing network structure. Specifically, we propo...

This paper investigates the degradation in diagnosability of bridging faults caused by situations of active feedback and logically unresolvable intermediate values under different fault modeling assumptions. The experimental results show that active feedback may reduce the fault coverage by as much as 7% for stuck-at test sets and realistic bridging fault sets. A test generation method for full...

Health care includes supportive services such as laboratory, radiology and blood transfusion. To manage blood supply centres and hospital blood transfusion services, leadership development is paramount. In 2000, a post-academic Master course for Management of Transfusion Medicine (MMTM) was initiated, focused on restricted economy countries. E-learning has become a common approach in teaching a...