Efforts to intercompare many existing circulation type classification (CTC) methods have found no consistency in their outcomes. Therefore, when confronted with a task classify atmospheric types, it is difficult find clear guidelines. This study explores the ways of increasing between and obtaining physically meaningful practically useful results. By applying range CTC sea-level pressure fields...

Constraint modelling is difficult, particularly for novices. Hence, automated methods for improving models are valuable. The context of this paper is tailoring, a process where a solver-independent constraint model is adapted to a target solver. Tailoring is augmented with automated enhancement techniques, in particular common subexpression detection and elimination, which, while powerful, can ...

Tailoring health messages to make them salient to recipients is a strategy to motivate cancer prevention and early detection behaviors. Various tactics can be used to tailor health materials; our approach involves tailoring messages to individual differences in the psychological processes by which people understand health information. To summarize our tailoring approach, we review findings from...

Groupware applications should be tailorable on different levels of complexity to encourage individual learning and collaborative tailoring activities. A search tool has been developed which offers different levels of tailoring complexity by means of hierarchically organized component languages. Users could create alternative search tools and compound components by themselves. Search tool altern...

Flexibility is one of the most striking features of modern software. As the idea of integrating components is easily understood by programmers as well as end users, component architectures seem to be very promising to serve as a technological basis. In this paper we give an overview of our work in the last years. A component model called FLEXIBEANS has been designed with the special notion to d...

Received: 18 May 2005 Revised: 19 June 2005 Accepted: 9 January 2006 Abstract Tailoring of methods is commonplace in the vast majority of software development projects and organisations. However, there is not much known about the tailoring and engineering of agile methods, or about how these methods can be used to complement each other. This study investigated tailoring of the agile methods, eX...

Compared to molecular chemistry, nanochemistry is still far from being capable of tailoring particle structure and functionality at an atomic level. Numerous effective methodologies that can precisely tailor specific groups in organic molecules without altering the major carbon bones have been developed, but for nanoparticles, it is still extremely difficult to realize the atomic-level tailorin...

BACKGROUND The assumption underlying tailoring is that implementation interventions are most helpful if these effectively address the most important determinants of practice for improvement in the targeted setting. The aim of the Tailored Implementation For Chronic Diseases (TICD) project is to develop valid and efficient methods of tailoring implementation interventions to determinants of prac...