Abstract While travel cost in urban areas is generally best modeled using network distances, continuous distance measures are mostly used for location problems in rural environments. Combining both is not only interesting from a modeling perspective, but has also computational advantages since it combines reduced storage requirements for the network data with a high accuracy of the approximated...

With a number of students, the purpose of collaborative learning is to assign these students to the right teams so that the promotion of skills of each team member can be facilitated. Although some team formation solutions have been proposed, the problem of extracting more effective features to describe the skill proficiency of students for better collaborative learning is still open. To that e...

Models provide an alternative perspective for the understanding of a software system. However, models reflect the state of the system at the time of their creation (or last updating) but they do not reflect intermediate changes during the system’s evolution. Depicting perspectives without showing changes is like watching a movie through a small set of still pictures (i.e., no motion). This pape...

Teaching software engineering in an applied setting with projects provided by clients from industry creates a realworld learning experience for students. While clients are domain experts well-aware of the system’s requirements, they often lack technical knowledge required to make decisions regarding the system architecture or the technologies involved in the project. Therefore, it is challengin...

In this paper the architecture and implementation of Cooperative Information Agents (CIA) is described. Taking a language-action perspective to the design of CIAs allows for the specification of obligations and authorizations, and results in the separation of tasks (things the agent must do) and contracts (mutually agreed commitments to the course of communication). The architecture describes t...

We shed new light on the long-debated question about the nature of mental images, that is, the underlying structures and processes, with a new theory of mental imagery. This theory is formalized as a computational cognitive model and provides an integrated account of the three prevalent theories of mental imagery, i.e., the descriptive, the quasi-pictorial, and the enactive theory. It does so b...

An experiment is reported which tests whether network information is more effectively displayed in a three dimensional space than in a two dimensional space. The experimental task is to trace a path in a network and the experiment is carried out in 2 0 , in a 3 0 stereo view, in a 3 0 view with head coupled perspective, and in a 3 0 stereo view with head coupled perspective: this last condition...

A trading partner agreement can be used to regulate the cooperation of organizations. It is typically written in natural language which gives rise to misunderstandings when partners interpret it differently. In addition it is often compiled in an unsystematic way so that we might easily overlook a situation the contract should have covered. It is therefore desirable to have a method that can su...

The current state-of-the-art in electronic negotiations shows a focus on the trade of standardised mostly inexpensive products in fixed networks of suppliers and customers. To overcome these shortcomings, the goal must be to enable the trade of complex and valuable goods and to support many-to-many marketplace for that purpose. Once valuable goods are concerned, the trade process involves negot...

Modeling how we choose among alternatives, or more generally, modeling preferences, is one of the core topics of study in Psychology. Preferences can be studied experimentally using a variety of procedures, one of the oldest being the method of paired comparisons. This method remains quite popular in areas such as psychophysics and consumer psychology. For a good overview of the method of paire...