Mediator systems federate and integrate data from disparate sources in order to elicit information that the individual sources cannot provide independently. The standard mediator architecture employs wrappers that translate heterogenous source data into a common (often semistructured) data model like XML. A “mediation engineer” provides an integrated view definition (IVD) on the wrapped XML sou...

We examined whether perception of university environment mediated the association between minority status stress and college persistence attitudes after controlling for perceived general stress. Participants were 160 Asian American, African American, and Latino students who attended a predominantly White university. Results of a path model analysis showed that university environment was a signi...

This paper presents a context-driven approach that aims at supporting semantic mediation between composed Web services. Despite the widespread adoption of Web services by the IT community, innovative solutions are needed in order to overcome the challenging issue that relates to the semantic disparity of exchanged data. Indeed, there is a lack of means for interpreting these data according to t...

The purpose of this paper is to describe a learning model based on Storytelling and its application in the context of legal education helping build challenging training resources that explain, to common citizens with little or no background about legal topics, concepts related to Legal Mediation in general and in specific areas like e-commerce and civil liability. The defined model has been con...

MICIS involves the design, implementation and evaluation of a multimodal interface for a common electronic information space. It is motivated by the need to make currently ongoing activities of interest within that space observable by its inhabitants through non-constrained WYSIWIS (What You See is What I See) views. Its underlying thread is a new general model of interaction mediation namely t...

Adapting the theory of reasoned action, the present study examined help-seeking beliefs, attitudes, and intent among Asian American college students (N = 110). A multiple mediation model was tested to see if the relation between Asian values and willingness to see a counselor was mediated by attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help and subjective norm. A bootstrapping procedure ...