Nowadays organizations are subject to constant changes. Most of these are imposed by the need to adequate their way of manage to market demands. To plan and perform them it is necessary to understand organization’s current state, only by perceiving it will be possible to correctly analyze its needs. A significant part of this knowledge is in every single person. They should be aware of their ro...

Self-organization is built upon two main building blocks: adaptive and uncoupled interaction mechanisms and context-awareness. Here we show how the middleware TOTA (Tuples On The Air) supports self-organization by providing effective abstractions for the above two building-blocks. TOTA relies on spatially distributed tuples for both supporting adaptive and uncoupled interactions between agents,...

While advertising to children has been examined extensively within marketing literature, less attention has been given to other means by which children can gain awareness of products and brands within the consumer environment. This research examines the impact of direct experience on children’s brand awareness. A two-study research design was undertaken whereby a total of 376 children aged betw...

Computer programming is regarded as a difficult skill to learn both by researchers and often by learners themselves. Metacognition has been identified as an important factor to be a successful learner in learning computer programming. Metacognitive in educational psychology is generally described as monitoring and controlling activities of one’s cognition. The researchers have examined the Meta...

We investigated whether speakers’ referential communication benefits from an explicit focus on addressees’ perspective. Dyads took part in a referential communication game and were allocated to one of three experimental settings. Each of these settings elicited a different perspective mindset (none, selffocus, other-focus). In the two perspective settings, speakers were explicitly instructed to...

This paper models an agent in a three-period setting who does not update according to Bayes’Rule, and who is self-aware and anticipates her updating behavior when formulating plans. The agent is rational in the sense that her dynamic behavior is derived from a stable preference order on a domain of state-contingent menus of acts. A representation theorem generalizes (the dynamic version of) Ans...

The Gödelian Arguments represent the effort done to interpret Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems in order to show that minds cannot be explained in purely mechanist terms. With the purpose of proving the limits of mechanistic theses and investigate aspects of the ChurchTuring Thesis, several results obtained in the formal setting of Epistemic Arithmetic (EA) reveal the relation among different pro...

Objective: Since fosters adolescents are deprived of family environment and probably the friendly relationships, some of them may develop problems in achieving self-awareness and communication skills and adjusting to the environmental conditions. Thus, this study was conducted to assess the effect of self-awareness and communication skills training on increasing the level of adjustment in foste...

Background & Aims: Recent studies have indicated memory dysfunction in individuals with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). The present study aimed to examine the relationship between cognitive selfawareness and episodic memory performance in patients with OCD and healthy individuals. Methods: In the present study, 30 patients with OCD and 30 normal individuals in the Shiraz Professional C...

Organizations are increasingly relying on employees to self-manage their learning needs. Therefore, it is important for individuals to accurately assess their IT knowledge because accurate self-assessment is critical to effective self-management. Metacognition represents individuals' self-monitoring and self-regulating abilities, and plays a key role in self-managed learning. This study examine...