This paper argues for a robust notion of collective identity which is not reduced to a psychological conception of identity. In a first part the debate on the concept of identity raised by several authors is taken up critically with the intention to defend a strong sociological conception of identity which by definition is a collective identity. The basic assumption is that collective identitie...

Assuming that the system documentation produced by the Extreme Programming (XP) process is the actual code, we propose to enrich this documentation by aggregating the user stories (system requirements) to the final product, the code. In XP system requirements are elicited from clients using a template named user story cards that are further discarded. By simply annexing the user stories as they...

selecting the pathway include a measure of the adherence to the user-specified part of the document space and the mutual information between adjacent documents calculated from their annotations.

While navigation instructions in terms of turn instructions and distances are suitable for guiding drivers on roads, a different context of use like pedestrian navigation requires extended routing data and algorithms as well as adapted presentation forms to be effective. In our work we study alternative forms of navigation instructions for pedestrians in city environments. In this paper we expl...

Explores the life of stone, following its matter-energy as it confounds the boundary between organic and inorganic, art and nature, human and mineral. postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies (2010) 1, 56–63 doi:10.1057/pmed.2009.1; published online 9 February 2010 Reality is a single matter-energy undergoing phase transitions of various kinds y Rocks and winds, germs and words, are...

Stories, and especially their resolutions are sedimented within a web of belief and value specific to a particular culture. The traditions or shared understandings of a culture are communicated intergenerationally through shared social practice, and especially through language. They suggest paradigmatic dilemmas, and offer solutions drawing upon the prevailing cultural beliefs and meanings. One...

This study examines the life stories of Hakka mothers by a systematic approach in a classroom. In order to grasp a vivid portrait of the so-called “Hakka Mother”, a series of courses that allow every student to revisit the life stories of mothers are proposed. This investigation explores the life stories in two different scopes: the food habit and dressing style. Throughout the dialogues among ...

The concept of an innovation space where different knowledge and perspectives can interact leading to innovation is central to lean thinking. The SECI framework of organizational knowledge creation identifies five enabling conditions which impinge on this space, namely intent, autonomy, fluctuation, redundancy and variety. User Stories, introduced in XP and now commonly used in Scrum, are a key...

Newspaper websites and news aggregators rank news stories by their newsworthiness in real-time for display to the user. Recent work has shown that news stories can be ranked automatically in a retrospective manner based upon related discussion within the blogosphere. However, it is as yet undetermined whether blogs are sufficiently fresh to rank stories in real-time. In this paper, we propose a...

The media today bombards us with massive amounts of news about events ranging from the mundane to the memorable. This growing cacophony places an ever greater premium on being able to identify significant stories and to capture their salient features. In this paper, we consider the problem of mining on-line news over a certain period to identify what the major stories were in that time. Major s...