This position paper presents the efforts we have undertaken to study the impact of intercultural factors on global software development projects. A bottom-up approach looks at the effect of individual intercultural factors on software practices, while a top-down approach strives to identify positive or negative organizational and behavioral patterns.

Humans, as social beings, are capable of employing various behavioral cues, such as gaze, speech, manual action, and body posture, in everyday communication. However, to extract finegrained interaction patterns in social contexts has been presented with methodological challenges. Cross-Recurrence Plot Quantification Analysis (CRQA) is an analysis method invented in theoretical physics and recen...

Quality criteria do not only relate to the products mere quality, but to the production and marketing process of the product as well. Customers often express their dissatisfaction with low ethical standards in this area by consumer boycotts. As there are complex relationships between financial aspects and compliance, a system dynamics model is used to unveil causal relationships and explain beh...

Oxytocin is one of the most researched hormones of the past two decades. Recent studies have proven its involve-ment in several behavioral patterns, like attachment, assuming risks and social interaction. Furthermore, it has been shown that oxytocin plays an important role in the mother-infant bonding. It also has promising results in various psychiatric conditions. The aim of this review is to...

Article history: Received 19 January 2016 Received in revised form 16 September 2016 Accepted 17 September 2016 Available online 15 October 2016 This paper presents an agent based model simulating animal tracking datasets for individual animals based on observed habitat use characteristics, movement behaviours and environmental context. The model is presented as an alternative simulation method...

Curiosity spends roughly 70% of the day "sleeping", in order to recharge the batteries from the nuclear power source. The system is designed to ensure the Rover goes to sleep and wakes back up to continue science and engineering activities. Additionally, the design is robust to off-nominal situations that may need additional actions performed by both hardware and software to ensure the Rover ca...

A ubiquitous environment enable us to enjoy various services “anytime” ”anywhere”. However, “everyone” is not realized. We research an intelligent space “everyone” can enjoy services. This paper proposes a method to detect user behavior to provide services according to user context in home. We focus on scenes user’s mode significantly changes, such as going out and going to bed. People often ha...

The mathematical approach to understand the genetic impact on human behavior, e.g., using game theory, tends to assume that evolution creates optimal fitness. However, evolution does not necessarily create optimal behavioral patterns, particularly not when the environment is rapidly changing. Consequently some of the inferences based on game theory are misleading. More specifically, certain asp...

Autism is one of the five pervasive development disorders that ay cause severe impairment to a child. Depending on the degree f the symptoms, autism may cause severe impairments in one’s ocial life such as social interaction and communication with ther individuals. They may also face challenges in learning, conentrating, sensation and interacting with their surroundings. Acording to the Center ...