Assuming that the system documentation produced by the Extreme Programming (XP) process is the actual code, we propose to enrich this documentation by aggregating the user stories (system requirements) to the final product, the code. In XP system requirements are elicited from clients using a template named user story cards that are further discarded. By simply annexing the user stories as they...

selecting the pathway include a measure of the adherence to the user-specified part of the document space and the mutual information between adjacent documents calculated from their annotations.

While navigation instructions in terms of turn instructions and distances are suitable for guiding drivers on roads, a different context of use like pedestrian navigation requires extended routing data and algorithms as well as adapted presentation forms to be effective. In our work we study alternative forms of navigation instructions for pedestrians in city environments. In this paper we expl...

Explores the life of stone, following its matter-energy as it confounds the boundary between organic and inorganic, art and nature, human and mineral. postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies (2010) 1, 56–63 doi:10.1057/pmed.2009.1; published online 9 February 2010 Reality is a single matter-energy undergoing phase transitions of various kinds y Rocks and winds, germs and words, are...

Stories, and especially their resolutions are sedimented within a web of belief and value specific to a particular culture. The traditions or shared understandings of a culture are communicated intergenerationally through shared social practice, and especially through language. They suggest paradigmatic dilemmas, and offer solutions drawing upon the prevailing cultural beliefs and meanings. One...

undoubtedly, holy books are fundamentally and substantially different from that of written by mankind. these celestial words have categorized such holy books as the artistic and literary masterpieces of its kind. in fact, most of the language rules based on verse and literary beauty had token from aforementioned books.the method of storytelling in holy quran is in the way which by reading the s...

lover’s person's life, often the source of the narrators and transmitters. for this reason, love stories in literature people of different have occupied a large space. the stories have many similarities in structure. layla and majnun story is the most famous and most ancient arabic tales has a major influence in the development of persian literature. iranian literary love stories and the s...

This paper presents a framework for asynchronous awareness. Awareness tools are potentially powerful for the support of long-term team collaboration processes. In this paper we outline the particularities of long-term awareness and introduce stories as a means to present awareness information. We show different approaches to present awareness stories and describe the results of our laboratory u...

For most of human history, human knowledge was considered to be something that was stored and captured by words. This began to change when Galileo said that the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics. Today, Dan Dennett and many others argue that all genuine scientific knowledge is in the form of mathematical algorithms. However, recently discovered neurocomputational algorith...