This paper describes an investigation into the provision of grid computing facilities in a typical university environment. In particular, it focuses on the use of the Java programming language and the ProActive grid framework. The experience of deploying ProActive in a heterogeneous environment (Windows and Linux) is discussed. The results of the implementation of a bioinformatics application u...

Demographic aging is the major problem that Taiwanese society is facing, and retirement life adaptation is the most concerning issue. In recent years, studies have suggested that in order to have successful aging and retirement planning, a view for the future is necessary. In Taiwan, civil servants receive better pensions and retirement benefits than do other industries. Therefore, their retire...

The present study examined the relations between child maltreatment and reactive and proactive functions of aggression, and whether hostile attribution biases partially accounted for these associations in a sample of 339 college students (mean age = 19; 51% male). Child maltreatment was associated with reactive, but not proactive, aggression, and instrumental hostile attribution biases accounte...

There are two main transportation engineering approaches to improving road safety: reactive and proactive. The traditional reactive approach consists of implementing the necessary improvements to existing hazardous (black-spot) sites in order to improve safety at these sites. The proactive approach is a collision prevention approach that tries to prevent unsafe road conditions from occurring in...

We show in this position paper how we designed Proactive Scenarios for an automatic and enhanced management of the online assignments on Moodle for both student and teacher users, through their implementation with Proactive Rules to be run on top of our prototype Proactive Engine developed for this LMS. According to the diversity of issues that arise from the users activity on LMS, Proactive Sc...