Physically based sound models have a “natural” setting in dimensional space: a physical model has a shape and an extent and can be given a position relative to other models. In our experimental system, we place procedurally animated agents in a world of spatially situated physical models. The agents move in the same space as the models and can interact with them, playing the models and changing...

This paper presents a study aiming to analyse the design strategies of experts in object-oriented programming. We report an experiment conducted with four experts. Each subject solved three problems. Our results show that three strategies may be used in program design according to the solution structure. An object-centred strategy and a function-centred strategy are used when the solution has a...

DiaLaw is a dialogical model of legal justification. An important characteristic of the formal and implemented model DiaLaw is that both logic-based arguments and mere convincing statements can be modelled. The support of both structural (logic-based) arguments and procedural arguments (mere convincing statements) is expressed by different levels in the dialog. In this paper so-called dialog tr...

Some research indicates that explicit learning of a sequence can impair procedural learning, particularly in populations with reduced cognitive capacity. However, these studies usually do not distinguish the effects of explicit processes on procedural learning from their effects on performance. The current study demonstrates that explicit learning affects performance, but not procedural sequenc...

Cognitive procedural learning is characterised by three phases, each involving distinct processes. Considering the implication of episodic memory in the first cognitive stage, the impairment of this memory system might be responsible for a slowing down of the cognitive procedural learning dynamics in the course of ageing. Performances of massed cognitive procedural learning were evaluated in ol...

The current article explores status as an antecedent of procedural fairness effects (the findings that perceived procedural fairness affects people's reactions, e.g., their relational judgments). On the basis of the literature, the authors proposed that salience of the general concept of status leads people to be more attentive to procedural fairness information and that, as a consequence, stro...

O objetivo do presente artigo e? analisar os impactos das Diretrizes Curriculares Nacionais para a Formac?a?o Inicial de Professores Educac?a?o Ba?sica e da Base Nacional Comum (BNC – Formac?a?o) em seguida acenar com algumas formas resiste?ncia no campo formativo. Na ana?lise dos sa?o discutidas tenso?es epistemolo?gico, curricular profissionalizac?a?o. Nessa foi possi?vel observar que, o prof...

Management of legacy software and its code, generally written in procedural languages, is often costly and time-consuming. To help this management, a migration from procedural to object oriented paradigm could be a cost effective option. One approach for such migration can be based on the underlying dependency structure of the procedural source code. In this work, we propose a new heuristic alg...

This study examines the effects of procedural justice perceptions on outcomes in an actual selection context with applicants taking a general mental ability test to gain employment as utility meter readers. Applicant attraction and intention related to the organization were measured at 3 time periods. This allowed us to control for initial levels of outcome variables and the pass–fail result wh...

This paper describes a framework that allows the collaborative development and deployment of procedural knowledge for task support in emergency situations. In this framework, procedural knowledge is represented in a wiki using an informal, textual description that is marked up with formal tags based on the representation for hierarchical task networks used in AI planning. Procedural k...