The notion of agency is central to the study of software process. Software development processes are enacted by agents, represent agents, and ultimately, must be capable of guiding human agents. This paper explores the use of the term “agent” in software engineering, and advocates a systematic study of this notion in the context of software process technology. In particular, the paper proposes ...

The increasing use of multi-agent systems brings challenges that have not been studied yet, such as: how we should adapt requirements elicitation to cope with agent properties like autonomy, sociability and proactiveness. The agent-oriented modelling is proposed as a suitable software engineering approach for complex organizational application domains that deal with the need for new application...

An intelligent collaborative learning environment (iCLE) provides an online learning community with an interactive and multi-functional work area with intelligent support for the whole cycle of collaborative education, including organizing teams, advising on group work and communication, tutoring, and testing individual contributions. An agent-based approach lends itself to developing iCLE syst...

Context prediction is used to proactively adapt, e.g. services in a ubiquitous environment to users’ needs. Due to the fact that context prediction enables proactiveness, the significance for ubiquitous computing systems is high. To the best of our knowledge, wellknown approaches in context prediction only focus on a user’s history as a database whose next contexts have to be predicted. In case...

In the last years we have witnessed to a substantial increase on the number of people in need of care services, especially among the elderly, a phenomenon related to population ageing. However, this is becoming not exclusive of the elderly, as diseases like obesity, diabetes, and blood pressure have been increasing amongst young adults. This is a new reality which needs to be dealt by the healt...

W e rely on computers to control our power plants and water supplies, our automobiles and transportation systems, and soon our economic and political systems. Increasingly , software agents are enmeshed in these systems, serving as the glue that connects distributed components. They translate messages, manage database queries and updates, represent buyers and sellers in e-commerce transactions,...

Aalto University, P.O. Box 11000, FI-00076 Aalto www.aalto.fi Author Juhana Peltonen Name of the doctoral dissertation Strategic Management of Entrepreneurial Firms during Recession Publisher School of Science Unit Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Series Aalto University publication series DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS 194/2014 Field of research Venture Capital and Private Equity, G...

The waste bank (WB) is a government program encouraging community participation in managing with social engineering principles. Since its establishment 2008, only 5% of active customers remain. This study evaluates the management WB sustainably and most optimal future alternatives. research qualitative quantitative sequential exploratory approach. Data from 35 four provinces (East Java, Central...

Bangunan bersejarah merupakan salah satu nilai kebudayaan yang melambangkan identiti sesebuah bangsa. Usaha untuk memulihara dan memelihara bangunan daripada ancaman kemusnahan perlu dilakukan secara komprehensif komited oleh semua pihak termasuk komuniti setempat. Hal ini kerana setempat paling hampir dirujuk dalam usaha melindungi aset warisan kepupusan. Komuniti juga adalah kelompok akan men...

354 June 2013, Vol. 103, No. 6 SAMJ Thieves of the state and the South African Medical Association (SAMA) ‘SAMA upholds the principles of honesty, integrity and patientcentredness and does not condone any unethical practice by its members.’ This is reassuring to see in print, even though it should go without saying for a nation’s official medical association. The same SAMA mass e-mail’s striden...