A global mindset is argued to be critical for managers to develop their firms’ current and future international success. An international assignment is considered to be one of the most powerful means of developing a global mindset. The skill sets, cognitive complexity, and expanded networks resulting from an international assignment provide expatriates with unique and often tacit knowledge. Yet...

The quantification and measurement of functional complexity of software are a persistent problem in software engineering. Measurement models of software complexities have been studied in two facets in computing and software engineering, where the former is machine-oriented in the small; while the latter is human-oriented in the large. The cognitive complexity of software presented in this paper...

The Cognitive Complexity of Texts and Its Formal Measurement in Cognitive Linguistics Yingxu Wang1 ∗, Robert C. Berwick2, and Xiangfeng Luo3 1International Institute of Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing (ICIC), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Schulich School of Engineering University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada 2Deparment...

It is important to identify modules that are fault prone or exhibit evidence of high cognitive complexity as these modules require corrective actions such as increased source code inspection, refactoring or performing more exhaustive testing. This can lead to a better quality software system. It has been found that inheritance has an impact on the cognitive complexity of a software system. In t...

Editors Hassan Masum and Mark Tovey put together a compilation of articles discussing the implications of social networking and other internet tools in the shaping of systems throughout the world in The Reputation Society: How Online Opinions Are Reshaping the Offline World. Hassan Masum is Innovation Lead at the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health, Affiliate Researcher at the Waterloo I...

One of the cognitive processes responsible for social propagation is social learning, broadly meant as the process by means of which agents' acquisition of new information is caused or favoured by their being exposed to one another in a common environment. Social learning results from one or other of a number of social phenomena, the most important of which are social facilitation and imitation...

Object-oriented paradigm is built on the notion of real world entities. This paradigm has received higher acceptability among the programming community. This is because the programs written using an object-oriented language are easier to comprehend as compared to the procedural programs. Hence this paper makes an attempt to apply Cognitive Information Complexity Measure (CICM) on object-oriente...

Cognitive maps are valuable tools for understanding individual and group perceptions. But developing such maps is a resource intensive activity. To reduce required resources, group support system (GSS) technology is proposed as an aid in uncovering cognitive maps. A GSS session was used to develop a cognitive map of users' of object-oriented (OO) techniques perceptions of OO system complexity. ...