The use of formal methods in real project is still a challenge. The paper reports the results of a Trial Project, partially funded by the European Communities, with the goal to measure diiculties and beneets associated with the use of integrated graphical and textual formal specii-cation languages. The reference application used for the trial project was the development of a platform door contr...

Coordination of interdependent tasks across geographical, temporal and socio-cultural boundaries has been identified as a critical antecedent to global software development (GSD) team performance. Since GSD teams are increasingly required to achieve software development agility and respond to changing business requirements, conventional plan-driven software development methods become inadequate...

This short piece explores what cultural theory should learn from the experience of global pandemic. It argues that main lesson not be about how crisis pandemic has been interpreted culturally, but deep social and economic inequalities which were foregrounded through ‘getting by’ in pandemic, positioned people very different ways. So dramatic have those inequalities, any inherited notion culture...

BACKGROUND There are an increasing number of training programs in emergency medicine involving different countries or cultures. Many examination types, both oral and written, have been validated as useful assessment tools around the world; but learner perception of their use in the setting of cross-cultural training programs has not been described. AIMS The goal of this study was to evaluate ...

A "memetic" (Bura 1994, Dennett 1995, Hales 1997) approach is applied to a resource sharing scenario. “Agents" are represented as cells on a grid applying simple cultural learning rules which selectively replicate and repel memes from neighbours. The memes represent culturally learned traits (Axelrod’s 1995) but also influence resource sharing behaviours. In the experiments presented, multiple ...

My work in cultural psychology – i.e., sociocultural theory – has two branches. One is the study of psychological phenomena as cultural phenomena. The other is the study of the discipline of cultural psychology as a cultural phenomenon. By this I mean the concepts and methods and interventions that the discipline employs, and the cultural factors that shape them. The discipline of cultural psyc...