In this paper, we build on previous work inferring lessons learnt from five years of experience in using generic offthe-shelf requirements engineering (RE) processes in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) projects [7]. We identify and discuss six ways that the application of a generic RE process model can succeed or fail. The distinction between success and failure is not always immediately evid...

In this contribution, we present a computational stylistic study of the French classic literature texts based on a data-driven approach where discovering interesting linguistic patterns is done without any prior knowledge. We propose an objective interestingness measure to extract meaningful stylistic syntactic patterns from a given author’s work. Our hypothesis is based on the fact that the mo...

This paper argues that the most famous objection to backward time travel can carry no weight. In its classic form, the objection is that backward time travel entails the occurrence of impossible things, such as auto-infanticide—and hence is itself impossible. David Lewis has rebutted the classic version of the objection: auto-infanticide is prevented by coincidences, such as time travellers sli...

Teacher action and change is a complex nuanced phenomenon that has been theorized across diverse literature in terms of identity, agency, power. Drawing on this literature, article offers specific articulations teacher identity as interpretive framework, power legitimate action, agency moral coherence. We posit model understood the interplay individual beliefs, values, ideals with institutional...

In most real life situations we are not only confronted with one single source of risk or one single risk, but with several sources of risk or combinations of risks. An important question is whether individual risks influence each other or not. This may concern the time of their occurrence and/or their severity. In other words, we need to understand how to model and describe the dependence stru...

Rejecting the temptation to make up a list of necessary and sufficient conditions for diagrammatic and sentential systems, we present an important distinction which arises from sentential and diagrammatic features of systems. Importantly, the distinction we will explore in the paper lies at a meta-level. That is, we argue for a major difference in metatheory between diagrammatic and sentential ...

that roles that Frege wanted to be filled by his notion of sense could be filled by a single thing. I will be taking as a starting point one aspect of the Fregean notion of sense to draw a distinction between sense based theories of reference and direct reference theories. I will not insist on the identification of what is true and what is the referent for Frege of a sentence in indirect discou...

Re]elele neuronale artificiale (RNA) sunt modele matematice complexe, inspirate de re]elele biologice de neuroni, ce pot efectua analize multifactoriale, fiind capabile s\ recunoasc\ rela]ii neliniare între diferi]i parametri, având o precizie mai mare decât metodele conven]ionale de analiz\ statistic\. RNA au fost utilizate cu succes în medicin\, rezultate remarcabile find ob]inute în urologie...

La identificación las prácticas de Ingeniería de Requerimientos (RE) en la comunidad de desarrollo de software es un aspecto clave para la orientación de las investigaciones y el desarrollo de las actividades académicas en general. En particular la evolución de esas prácticas es una herramienta de orientación en proyectos nuevos de investigación. Si bien se dispone de ejemplos de estudio de las...

In this study, we investigated the personality variable quality of object relations (QOR) as a moderator of the relationship between the pattern of the therapeutic alliance and treatment outcome in two forms (interpretive, supportive) of short-term individual psychotherapy. In a sample of 72 psychiatric outpatients who completed interpretive therapy, QOR emerged as a moderator for the outcome f...