This paper presents a narrative-based Requirements Engineering (RE) mediation model to help RE practitioners to effectively identify, define, and resolve conflicts of interest, goals, and requirements. With SPI community, there is a common belief that social, human, and organizational issues significantly impact on the effectiveness of the software process improvement in general and requirement...

In order to ensure high availability of Web services, recently, a new approach was proposed based on the use of communities. In composition, this approach consists in replacing the failed Web service by another web service joining a community offering the same functionality of the service failed. However, this substitution may cause inconsistency in the semantic composition and alter its mediat...

Based on examples taken from a collaborative research study investigating contextual elements that contribute to a positive learning/teaching experience for all participants as a result of the incorporation of music and other art forms into the language arts curriculum, this paper describes mediation situations faced by the researcher in an effort to take under consideration the needs of the re...

Title:Having mentors moderates the impact of worries and video gaming on the development of depressive symptoms: A moderated mediation analysis

Significant effort has been invested by the Semantic Web community in methodologies and tools for creating ontology mappings. Various techniques for mapping creation have been developed; however less interest has been shown in the actual usage of the created mappings and their application in concrete mediation scenarios. In this paper we show how mappings can be converted to logical rules and e...

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...

BACKGROUND Family law reforms in Australia require separated parents in dispute to attempt mandatory family dispute resolution (FDR) in community-based family services before court attendance. However, there are concerns about such services when clients present with a history of high conflict and family violence. This study protocol describes a longitudinal study of couples presenting for famil...

Social support and resilience were considered to be two significant influential factors for depression in late life. The study aims to present a mediation model for understanding the interrelations among social support, resilience, and geriatric depression. A cross-sectional survey study was conducted among 162 community-dwelling Chinese older adults in Singapore. Findings indicated a significa...