Introduction In the last five years, there has been an explosion of articles about, and interest in, the learning organization. Clearly the concept has caught the imagination of writers on management and of many managers themselves. This is not surprising for it is clear from a range of research around the world that many contemporary organizations are faced with unprecedented environmental cha...

This paper addresses the issue of battery power conservation in wireless personal area networks (WPANs). Specifically, we consider a WPAN, which contains a processor and a disk drive, and develop a collaborative power management technique, which minimizes the total WPAN power consumption. Our approach is based on the theory of rational behavior, which leads to a collaborative architecture where...

The linguistics of emotions currently occupies an important position in research. Emotions, permeating all human activities, are reflected at levels the language. This determines vast interest linguists to them. authors article consider class emotive causatives and its functional semantic features. is a subclass causatives, semantics which associated with impact order evoke certain emotions. fe...

We propose Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), a very structured therapeutic approach which lends itself well to automation, as a promising argumentation technique for consumers of healthcare. In particular we describe an automated dialog system for exercise behavior change based on REBT.